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Editing SharePoint Pages Using FrontPage 2003

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NickLowe

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I've read a number of warnings stating that SharePoint can be adversely affected if pages are edited using FrontPage 2003. As Microsoft state that FrontPage 2003 is designed to work with SharePoint, can anyone provide me with a clear explanation of how FrontPage should and shouldn’t be used with SharePoint.

Many thanks.
 
It is not that Frontpage adversly affects preformance it is just that when you edit a page (with any tool) the page becomes UnGhosted.

A ghosted page is a reference in the database to the site definition files for that page. (in the Sharepoint install dir)

A unghosted page is a page that resides entirely in the database. And is processed by a different parser the safe mode parser.

The unghosted pages are said to be slower but i suggest you read up on this (un)ghosting issue.

To note that it is possible to make new site definition files and created your sites upon those defenitions. This has the added advantage that if you edit the site definition all sites / pages (that are still ghosted) will reflect these changes. But you cant make a change to only one sites based upon th definitions as this will couse the changed page to be unghosted.

I hope this helps you! (btw it is not by definition a bad thing to edit pages in frontpage, just realize what the effects are.)
 
Many thanks for the advise.

I seem to remember reading something that said that SharePoint pages can become corrupted if edited with FrontPage ? Is this fact or fiction ?
 
Well pages can become corrupt by incorectly editing (deleting the form tags for example.) But that is not the fault of Frontpage. That is PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.)
 
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