Issue with FrontPage, caused by Vista?

My dad and I recently started maintaining a website using Microsoft Frontpage (2003). We had no issues whatsoever, until we tried using a different computer. It had a fresh installation of FrontPage, but it would not open the site, because it would never accept our username and password. It would just keep bringing up the login screen. It is not an issue of typing it correctly (checked Caps Lock, etc). We tried this on several different machines, both Windows 7 and Vista 32x and 64x. Same problem. The original XP computer still works fine. (Tried Frontpage 2000 with all the computers, still same problem)

I'm to the point of installing XP on another computer just to check if the OS is the problem. But I REALLY do not want to do that unless necessary. Is the problem with the host site, or with us just being Frontpage n00bs and needing to set something up within the program?
Thanks!

 

Isn't Front Page a dead product? It's not surprising that OS-related problems are starting to show up with it.

 

FrontPage is now a discontinued product and has been replaced by Expression Web (currently at version 3). You should seriously try it -- things have improved greatly since FrontPage 2003 while maintaining the same familiar user interface. (DreamSpark has it for free if you are a college student )

Just as a precaution though, make sure that the website has the appropriate user permissions set for it. The username and password dialog box should not be coming up (unless there have possibly been permissions set where it only opens for certain users?).

 

I had no idea Frontpage had been discontinued. I had a copy of 2003 (love student discounts) that we'd never used, so we went with that. And it works great for what simplistic things we need...until this problem!

Still no idea why it will only work from one computer. My only guess is that the people hosting it have blocked outside access. But that makes little sense, because we can access the site's FTP from any computer.

Thanks for the suggestion about Expression...looks sweet! And I love free things from Microsoft. I might just be a student my whole life for that reason only!

 

I also think that FrontPage 2003 was tied pretty closely with IE5. Another point of obsolescence.

 

Huh? How was it tied to IE5?

Gary

 

Frontpage's HTML skills were dradful....
I think I used that for school once, and then threw outa few hundred lines that were useless (for basic HTML).

Visual Web Developer Express Edition is free and good too - but may be a bit too much for your needs.

 

I know Frontpage isn't the best tool, but that (and now Expression Web) are what we've got. But I'm pretty dang sure the problem is on the server end, for not allowing us to access, just repeatedly popping up the login dialogue. I don't know how it would be tied to solely one computer, but it's a possibility. Still no response from the hosts.

As I play around with more HTML stuff, I'll try some of these other tools. I don't forsee myself ever being a web developer, but it could come in handy. And it's cool. And nerdy.