I have read as much as I can on this, but I'm having a hard time making the correct decision for my individual situation. Any advice here would be greatly appreciated.

To have my host set up my account I need to choose EITHER to have FP Extensions enabled OR use FTP. I will be using Frontpage 2002 for authoring very simple pages, photo albums will be the most complex thing.

I will do all of the AUTHORING at home, where I have 56K dialup access, but I would like to UPLOAD files, updates, etc. from work where I have a fast internet connection (but NO FRONTPAGE).

If I get FP extensions enabled, will that REQUIRE I do all my web stuff from home (painfully slow access), or can I write at home, burn it to a CD, and upload at work? Again, I have no FP software at work. Thanks in advance!!

You can use FP to create webpages without including the FP extensions. It sounds like you're just doing simple static pages and shouldn't really have to worry about it.

I think it's strange that a host would force a choice between FP and FTP, as they're really two totally separate applications, but given the choice and what you sound like you want to do, go with FTP....or a different host.

You might also look (long term) at other authoring packages (Adobe GoLive if you use a lot of Adobe programs, or Dreamweaver - although there are many other cheaper alternatives)

Thanks Pablo! I really appreciate your comments.

I wonder if they are making me choose "for my own protection" in that if I start publishing with extensions I have to stick with them?

So, I will have them set it up without extensions.

Thanks again!

Originally posted by LATEOTT
I wonder if they are making me choose "for my own protection" in that if I start publishing with extensions I have to stick with them?
You don't have to sick with them, they can be added and removed at any time.

If you're going to be using FrontPage and don't have the Extensions installed, you can still take advantage of the easy publishing features in FrontPage. When you publish, as the host name enter ftp://yourftpaddress.com (many times your FTP address is simply your domain name, but sometimes it will have an ftp. in front of it). Using thing method you'll get some of the special FrontPage features to work which wouldn't work if you used a third-party FTP application (included content is one example), and FrontPage will also keep track of which pages have changed and automatically upload only the changed pages in your website. Some features still won't work (like the forms functionality), but you're still betting off using FrontPage to publish to FTP than using a third-party piece of software.

Originally posted by Pablo
I think it's strange that a host would force a choice between FP and FTP, as they're really two totally separate applications, but given the choice and what you sound like you want to do, go with FTP....or a different host.

Maybe not so strange, as by uploading into a Frontpage "web" using a normal FTP client can very easily damage the "web", meaning that the extensions will need to be reinstalled again.