No you don't have to have extensions like what you describe to use FrontPage. You don't have to have the server extensions installed with your Web Server to use the FP editor. And no, it's not a tie-in product requiring other Microsoft products to use it.
I use it all the time to simply edit HTML templates to be used with VFP mtdlls. It does have a lot of nice features other editors don't if you do want to use other MS products. I like it because it allows me to visually (WYSIWIG) create and modify any HTML extremely easily. After working in web development the past 7 years, I can tell you that a great many businesses do use FrontPage extensively...
>>Just curious - What do you meanwhen you say "Doesn't require extensions like FrontPage"? Which extensions?
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>In order for Front page to 'work' you need to publish a front page web site on a server with front page extinsions installed. There are pros and cons to this approach, But suffice to say, its a microsoft only thing. Front Page is one of the Microsoft programs which really work, only when working with other Micorsoft technologies.
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>The menus, database, searching, security stuff, all use Micorosft only extinsions which are installed at the time you publish your site to your server. Your server has to be enabled with Front Page extinsions in order to get a frontpage web site to work they way it should. How they actually work, and what they really do is anyones guess. They are typical underdocumented Micosoft bloatware which are used mainly by home users..... tons of them, Lots of people use Front Page, but very very few business's rely on it. the web author just does not have enough control on what is going on... So if your company uses only Microsoft Products (and I do know of some) then use front page, but... if you choose another supplier to publish - and write real html, then by all means stay as far away from front page as you can.
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>Bob Lee