What I want to know what components if any the webpages made in Frontpage
require that they be already installed on the server. In other words if I
use
Interactive Buttons, linkbars, tables in my html webpages, do these
require
some special software/libraries to be on the webhost server?
In FP2002 under menu item: TOOL -> Page Options -> Compatibility (Tab) you
can set FP to allow or disallow a variety of facilities including front page
extensions.
This only works on new pages or a new website from scratch. It will not
work (probably) on a website created with a wizard. By unclicking the FP
extensions, enabling only Javascript, not enabling VRM etc you can cause FP
to create a webpage that should run on nearly any webserver and provide
pages that can be read by nearly any browser.
The catch is if you need the functionality that is provided by the FP
extensions you will have to find Php/Javascript replacements (which are
usually available).
If you can, it is a LOT easier to limit your webhosting to company that
supports frontpage extensions. You can more easily design things within the
context of FP. But I regularly setup my websites with FP extensions
disabled, etc.
Hope this helps,
Tom Miller