Drawing on the Web

My web sites are all hosted on at a web hosting company that uses BSD, Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL and provides install wizards for lot of other free open-source packages. I have FrontPage Extensions 2002, the latest and final version that Microsoft has said they will release, available, too.

I code my web sites at the PHP, HTML and CSS levels, and I usually tweak the open-source packages like WordPress so that I can get just the visual presentation that I want.

But, if I wanted to use the latest version of FrontPage (FrontPage 2003, which has web site interactive features that aren’t available in FrontPage Extensions 2002 ) I would need to use a web host that provided Windows Server 2003 web hosting.

Similarly, if I wanted to program using Microsoft’s ASP script or Microsoft SQL Server, I would have to find Windows Server 2003 web hosting.

I recently found an option for Windows Server 2003 Web Hosting – priced at only $7.96/month! . I haven’t tried them yet, since I’m not currently doing ASP or FrontPage 20003, but what I’ve seen so far looks good.