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                     From: Eric Durant <eadurant@concentric.net>
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Angove wrote:
> If you edit the web site DIRECTLY on the web server, and NOT on your
> hard drive, things turn out 1 zillion times better!
[...]
> Microsoft is fixing these problems with FP2000....of course that means
> we have to BUY FP2000 in order to FIX FP98...go figure!

I think it's not so much a problem as a design decision.

Like many others, though, I find that there are perfectly reasonable
things I might expect to be able to do with FP98 which it wasn't
designed to do.

For example, when using the FP client at multiple locations (by the same
or different user), the utility of the Publish feature is essentially
eliminated since the FP client does not sync. up with the live site.  It
was clearly designed with the single user in a single location in mind.

Okay, since most Websites I work on have multiple maintainers, we work
on the live site to avoid this issue.  This has its own drawbacks,
mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

The issue is really version control, and that is what a product such as
SourceSafe addresses.  However, I have not investigated how/if SS
interoperates with FP/IIS.  By "fixing these problems," you're probably
referring to FP00's introduction of some version control features.

See <http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/productinfo/FP2000Preview.htm>
which contains many links to pre-reviews and provides a summary of
improvements.  Excerpt:

"...And because Web sites can grow to thousands of pages with multiple
content contributors, FrontPage 2000 also delivers new collaboration
features such as check-in and check-out and flexible access control over
any portion of a Web."

Although having such features sooner is better, having to buy an upgrade
to get them when they become available doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Eric Durant
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