Implementing a site into Front Page...please advise

[AshleyQuick]

I've completed a web site, which contains some flash, some javascript, and some dhtml. It's been tested and works in both IE and NS 4+.

The client now wants to take the code and maintain it using Front Page and wants me to educate him with the implementation. Is this simply a matter of copying all the files onto his computer and then opening FP and going from there? He knows Front Page but is only familiar with creating a site within FP using its templates. Are there any potentials caveats? Can someone explain the process in a much detail as possible? Thanks

Ash

[ronaldb66]

This is probably not what you wanted to hear, but I'm afraid you're in for a trip down Nightmare Alley. I've worked with FP2000, and I don't recommend it for any serious application. If you really can't persuade your client to use another tool and keeping the idiosyncrasies of FP in mind, the safest way would be to build your site in FP from the ground up. Of course you can use mayor parts of your present code, at least the content, but for layout, design, navigation, etc. FP has it's own ideas of implementing such aspects.
In any way, I seriously doubt that FP will accept a page not strictly conforming to it's own rules, but to be honest, i never tried it.

[brothercake]

The pages that FP makes only work properly in Windows/IE5+. Worse than that - if you start with valid code and so much as open it in FP, it gets reformatted into invalid code. - so the lovely cross-browser page you made will not be cross-browser anymore.

Don't go there ... try to talk your client out of it ... introduce them to HomeSite.

If you can't, then make sure your contract utterly absolves you of any responsibility for the damage that FP causes. It may sound very arrogant to take such an attitude - I promise you it's not some high-minded notion of academic correctness that makes me say this; it's grim experience. You should make it clear that if they edit the site in FP, they will lose support for anything that isn't a windows version of IE.