Description of things to consider when you edit SharePoint Web sites by using FrontPage 2003

When you edit your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site or your Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Web site, use Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. Earlier versions of FrontPage may break SharePoint features or functionality.

FrontPage 2003 was created with consideration for Windows SharePoint Services and for SharePoint Portal Server, and therefore can be used to edit Web sites based on those technologies.

If you use an earlier version of Microsoft FrontPage (such as Microsoft FrontPage 2002) to edit your SharePoint Web pages, the earlier version of FrontPage may actually break some features or remove some functionality from your SharePoint Web pages. This issue occurs because some features of SharePoint Web sites, such as Web parts and data views, are not available in earlier versions of FrontPage.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Some of the common tasks, actions, and processes that can (or should) only be done in FrontPage 2003 to enhance your Web sites that are created by using Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 include the following:

• Replace, enhance, or add icons and images.
• Implement consistent banner treatments across pages.
• Create custom page layouts.
• Implement dynamic Web templates.
• Implement advanced design elements, sound, and interactivity.
• Create data driven solutions in SharePoint Web sites by using XML data in files, programs, OLE databases, and Web services.
• Change the source properties, parameters, and formatting of dynamic XML data sources to create new instances of the Data View Web Part.
• Format live XML data by using the XSLT editing feature.
• Apply conditional formatting to XSLT data views on XML and other data sources, such as SQL Server or XML Web services.
• Connect Web Parts on the same page or on different pages (cross-page connections).
• Create and deploy Web Packages of your SharePoint Web sites for reuse and sharing.
• Track SharePoint Web site usage and performance by using FrontPage reporting and measurement tools.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: