Do I need to buy FrontPage Extensions?

FrontPage is Microsoft's consumer webpage editing tool. You can buy FrontPage and use it to lay out webpages. Frontpage also has a bunch of features that interact with your website... you can upload files with it, and perform various functions. Using those functions requires FrontPage Extensions to be enabled on your account.

You *can* use FrontPage to just design pages, and then use a regular FTP client to upload them. You do not need to have Extensions enabled to do that... it just becomes another web editing tool.

If you do not have specific plans to use FrontPage, don't enable it. It takes up storage space and it messes up your .htacess files if you later disable it.

If you have a professional designer working on your site, don't enable FrontPage; few designers use it. It is more of a do-it-yourself tool.

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