From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:53:55 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>, FTP has been around a long time and
>obviously your users know how to use whatever ftp client they have been
>using for years so why are you trying to teach them how to use a new one
>that barely functions?

   These users are greener than that - they just want a $300 wondersite as
something that they can subsequently maintain themselves.    Something as
simple as updating news, photos, etc, then publishing.   They've never used
FTP before and don't have a client to start with.  There are Yahoo sites
now that do that with an editor, but it's still nice to have a solution
that doesn't rely on a 3rd party to try to steal your customer completely.

>> web site or if you manually code them in.   That's outside the scope of
>> Expressions Web - which is primarily standards-based web page design.
>> The one thing it does pretty well.
>
>Standards based web page design? What standard does it use for an email
>form? Blat?

   E-mail forms - the designer supplies their own solution; whether it is a
manually coded frontpage bot, a FormMail script, or a custom ASP script
invoking an Active-X mailer.

  The standards refer specifically to various levels of HTML, W3C and CSS
specifications.   It can target specific browser levels.   But it does not
include any frontpage server extension references built in.   Although it
will honor existing frontpage extensions in old web sites.  FrontPage Nav
Bars won't be updated automatically for example.

   So in that context, it is reasonable to think that you have a number of
customers on $9.95/mo web sites.  Many of those are FTP only.   Expressions
web doesn't remember site passwords, making it a royal pain.  And forget FTP/TLS.

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