While the other posts in this thread are good in providing the answer to
your question, I think you're beeing very shortsighted about this. Even if
you are successful getting your simple static web site running, as soon as
you do you'll want to do other stuff - forms, hit counter, etc. These all
require server-side code. To limit yourself in this way is just insane when
there are several inexpensive web hosting services out there that will allow
you to use these technologies. A little forward thinking now will save you
a lot of grief later.
Actually, three out of four posts told me something I had already stated
that I knew in my original post.
And thank you for telling me that I am insane for trying to live within
the limits of my ISP. At this point I cannot afford any other hosting.
Also, I have been meaning to set up a web site for almost three years but
have never gotten around to it. I know this is going to take me a long
time to get up to speed on because we have a new baby coming and lots of
other issues to deal with at this time. Therefore, it is not within my
budget (financially or chronologically) to sign up for hosting now, only
to have it lay dormant for another few months to a year. I need to get
SOMETHING up in the space I have available to me and that space can not
run any server side code.
When I AM ready to add additional functionality I intend to get a static
IP address and set up an IIS server in my home. I have a Microsoft Action
Pack subscription so I have several licenses for Windows Server 2003,
including one for the web server edition. However, I do not have the time
or money to figure all that out at this time. So, for now, I am stuck
with a static site on my ISP's server.
I can tell you right now I would much rather be using DreamWeaver MX 2004
than FrontPage. Until 2 days ago I had the chance to save $100 on it but
my wife talked me into sticking with FrontPage because I already owned
it. Now, in my first day of really studying how to use FrontPage I see
that I can't even create a link bar without the FrontPage Extensions.
Forms, hit counters, etc. are all easily done without the FrontPage
Extensions using DreamWeaver. Granted they require server side code but
not the FP Extensions. A link bar is nothing more than a row of pictures
with links attached to them. It shouldn't require any server side code at
all. But if I use FrontPage to create one then it won't run on a server
without the PF Extensions.
Obviously, I AM insane and completely without foresight, as you say,
because I thought for a second that I could get anything at all done
using FrontPage without getting trapped into needing a server with the FP
Extensions. Now that I have missed my deadline for DreamWeaver I am
stuck. And with the kind of help I am getting in here I expect I will be
completely on my own figuring out what Microsoft really doesn't want me
to know.
