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The FrontPage Server Extensions are software that allows a Web server to
communicate with FrontPage to provide advanced functionality without the user
having to know any programming. There are many things that are enabled
when a hosting company supports the FrontPage Server Extensions on their server,
including:
 | The ability to author remotely. That means that you can
create and edit Web pages while connected directly to the server. That
seemed easier to me because I didn't want to have to bother with FTP
programs or have to duplicate the files on my computer. |
| Hit counters. Instead of having to figure out how to get the
Web page to communicate with the server to keep track of how many people
visit my site, I can just insert the hit counter component in FrontPage, and
it will take care of talking to the server. I wanted to be hidden from
the complexity. |
| Forms. I thought that some day I would want to collect
information from visitors to my site, and forms are easy with FrontPage as
long as the Server Extensions are installed on the hosting company's
server. |
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