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04 January 2007 • by Bob • FrontPage
I had a bunch of FrontPage shortcuts lying around, so I thought that I should list them together in a single blog.
Much like inserting a hit counter on your web page, nothing screams "amateur" faster than using one of the built-in FrontPage themes or templates to design your web site. That being said, not all FrontPage themes and templates are bad - it's just that many of them are so awful that they give the rest of the market a bad name.
Personally, I have seen several professionally-designed templates that use FrontPage's Dynamic Web Templates (*.DWT) to construct the look and feel for some really great-looking web sites. It pays to be choosy, of course, and find the right theme/template that works for your target audience. With that in mind, I have several theme and template sites listed below.
For a large collection of non-FrontPage-specific templates, see the Open Source Web Design website at the following URL:
At one time there were a bunch of add-ins for FrontPage lying around on the Internet, but sadly those days are gone. Just the same, here are a few of the remaining links that contain Add-ins for FrontPage:
This is probably one of the most useful links for the FrontPage Server Extensions, but be forewarned - it's not an easy guide to follow:
The FrontPage SDKs are no longer available from Microsoft, so I have them mirrored here:
| File Description | File Link | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| FrontPage 1.0 SDK | fpsdk10.zip | 3.25 mb |
| FrontPage 1.1 SDK | fpsdk11.zip | 706.24 kb |
| FrontPage 97 SDK | fpsdk20.zip | 1.04 mb |
| FrontPage 98 SDK | fpsdk30.zip | 1.46 mb |
| FrontPage 2000 SDK | fpsdk40.zip | 797.12 kb |
| FrontPage 2002 SDK | fpsdk50.zip | 1.52 mb |
2025 UPDATE: This post was written several years ago, and many of the links were no longer there. However, during a review of old blogs, I updated the old URLs to use the Internet Archive, so the links in this blog appear to work as they did when the blog was first written.