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'include' pages - Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions


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I manage a rather old site and it uses Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions to update all of it's include pages.

 

Recently my host upgraded and moved my site to a different server.

 

They are now telling me:

 

"Unfortunately we're not able to get Front Page extensions working on our new platform. Microsoft discontinued support for them quite a while ago and they can't be installed on newer versions of Windows."

 

So now my include pages do not work properly...and I am looking for some suggestions on what to do.

 

Thanks

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  On 15/12/2014 at 21:33, slappyJmarsden said:

I manage a rather old site and it uses Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions to update all of it's include pages.

 

Recently my host upgraded and moved my site to a different server.

 

They are now telling me:

 

"Unfortunately we're not able to get Front Page extensions working on our new platform. Microsoft discontinued support for them quite a while ago and they can't be installed on newer versions of Windows."

 

So now my include pages do not work properly...and I am looking for some suggestions on what to do.

 

Thanks

 

This would be the perfect time for you to upgrade all the sites to use a modern programming language and best practices.  A normal course of action is to redo the website in ASP.NET.  Using a platform that supports Frontpage is an insecure platform and very bad practice.

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Indeed Frontpage is dead, consider rewriting your pages.

Depending on the content you can consider migrating your content to existing software that runs on the servers or rewriting your pages.

 

What's the actual content of those pages, news, blog, other? based on that we can give suggestions on what to do next.

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  On 16/12/2014 at 00:05, Cyberkiller said:

You can very easily swap the frontpage includes with php includes.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

The same could be done with other server side code. Does frontpage has any other syntax or code other then this include that needs to be rewritten/replaced?
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It's an old site with 100's of pages that basically just uses html...nothing fancy.

 

My thought would be to start coding a new homepage with html5....a lot of pages still use tables for layout.

 

With it being a rather large site with lots of content it seems a little overwhelming to start fresh...

 

Here's the site http://www.kleenkuip.com

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  On 16/12/2014 at 01:50, slappyJmarsden said:

It's an old site with 100's of pages that basically just uses html...nothing fancy.

 

My thought would be to start coding a new homepage with html5....a lot of pages still use tables for layout.

 

With it being a rather large site with lots of content it seems a little overwhelming to start fresh...

 

Here's the site http://www.kleenkuip.com

I would use a cms instead and port the information to that.

The site could use a redesign :/ But you can also consider using an existing design and theme from themeforrest: http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/corporate/business

 

If you want to make an easier port you can consider saving the content of each page and writing a wrapper to put the content inside.

I can scrape the site to save the html content of each page(automated) if you want so the only thing that should be rewritten would be the header and footer then.

 

 

But personally I would just rewrite the whole site since it's kinda outdated.

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Thanks for all the replies...

 

Does anybody have a good knowledge of the various Wordpress themes that might be a good fit from the old site to a new site?

 

I was just browsing some themes and saw a nice one called:

Auto Car Repair Mechanic Shop Responsive Theme

but I'm not quite sure if this theme would be appropriate...something that I could tweak and would be easy to move a lot of my current sites content over to the new.

 

any thoughts would be appreciated...

 

my site has a LOT of products and a used equipment page that gets updated quite regularly.

 

Thanks

 

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