From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:51:09 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>>   Sort of like the spanking new FrontPage replacement, Expressions Web
>> product barely supporting FTP as an upload protocol, much less FTP over
>> TLS.   So, how long has FTP been out there; why not support it?
>
>Why in the world would anyone use Frontpage to upload to an FTP based site?
>You make the pages with whatever editor you like including frontpage then
>use leechftp to upload. It's just so much easier to always use the same ftp
>client than to learn how to make all the different editors do ftp.

   It's another useless thing to train newbies on - they just want to
upload their web site.   Opening a different program to publish it beyond
them.   FTP has been around for a long time, Everything out there supports
FTP except Expressions Web.

>The real question is does Expressions allow you to upload to a frontpage
>based website and can it use the frontpage bots? (I haven't tried
>expressions yet)

   I think it does allow you to upload via FrontPage server publishing
protocol.    The frontpage bots are supported if they are already in the
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.

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