Frontpage 2003 and Windows 11

Draclvr 20 Reputation points
2025-10-05T15:30:25.8866667+00:00

I help administer a larger adventure gaming site with over 5,000 members which has been around since 2000. Gameboomers.com was built on Frontpage 2003 back then and is still running well. We've had to do some tweaks running it on Windows 10, but it's working well and the website and forums are stable. We have been told this ancient software will no longer work at all on Windows 11. I guess my question is, what are our options. Should the website be completely rebuilt using modern website software? What's available? Our head admin has an extra Windows 10 computer which she can use to keep the site updated, but I do all the site support with publishing game reviews and walkthroughs etc., and I don't have an extra Windows 10 computer.

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  1. Diane P 7,345 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-10-05T18:10:51.7+00:00

    what are our options. Should the website be completely rebuilt using modern website software? What's available?

    Honestly, yes, it should be redone. It may not be fast or easy though... the other option is to keep an old computer with windows 10 to use exclusively for updating the web site.

    When I converted mine years ago, I was mostly using FP to add the headers and footers. I used search and replace to convert them to includes. This allowed me to use any HTML editor to edit or create new pages.

    I later moved it all into wordpress, which took a lot longer (had over 1000 pages to move) but it gave me the chance to review each page, updating some and deleting others that were way out of date. It's much easier to manage in wordpress. I tested a few other popular website backends but liked wordpress the best. They all had editors built in so I no longer needed an HTML editor.


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