Introduction

Introduction

Now that you know how to plan, build, and run a Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Web site, the only areas that remain are publishing and managing the Web site. Publishing a Web site is the process of copying all of the files that make up a Web to a predetermined destination, while managing a Web site is the process of administering the day-to-day maintenance, which includes viewing reports and creating, assigning, and performing tasks.

You can publish copies of your Web site content files, and also copies of additional FrontPage files. However, it will require the server to display pages and perform Web functions. Using Remote Site view, you can publish an entire Web site or individual files.

FrontPage 2003 can publish to any Web server running any version of the FrontPage Server Extensions. However, Web part pages and any pages that use features on the Data menu in FrontPage 2003 require SharePoint Services 2.0 or later. These features will not work on any other type of Web server.

In addition to recording who's assigned to various tasks, FrontPage also keeps track of the review status for a file. If you are managing a large Web site and you want to keep the project on task, you need to continually monitor the review status of individual items. FrontPage provides several reports to help you keep track of the project workflow and task assignments.

You can apply XML (Extensible Markup Language) formatting. This format is ideal for producing extensive, highly-structured data from an application in a consistent manner. XML tags, however, employ a much tighter rule system with regard to XML syntax. If a single missing tag or mis-formatted attribute happens, XML makes the entire document unreadable.