Edit shtml files in FP 2003?

Can it be done?

[aavery]

My web designer is using Dream Weaver on a Mac, and I asked him to design a modern CSS template for me to use. It has server side includes and thus the shtml.

My current site was done in early versions of FP and has much of the old crap in it. I use FP 2003 now. It is all plain htm pages and well ranked on the SEO front. I would prefer the new pages to be htm as I like the rankings and like to update my site myself, but the designer can't seem to get the CSS and includes to work well on my host ( he says a Hypermart restriction prevents it).

If I could edit the shmtl correctly with FP in WYSIWYG mode, I could possibly live with 301 redirects to the new shtml pages. The only way to see the page with includes right now is to upload to the web and look there. Is there some way FP can do this so it looks correct with the includes in design view?

What I would REALLY prefer is to use htm and front page with CSS and get includes and proper formating to work.

My designer only uses DW and the MAC, so it is hard for him to tell me what is wrong with the way FP works with his code.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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[bill]

You can have your server parse .htm pages as .shtml, so you don't have to change the file extension. That's not difficult to do at all.

FP can work with the HTML, but the WYSIWYG will not show the SHTML includes in Design view. You'll have to publish those pages to the server to see the changes. You can certainly work with those pages as long as you keep in mind there the includes are.

[aavery]

You can have your server parse .htm pages as .shtml, so you don't have to change the file extension. That's not difficult to do at all.

Please explain.

Thanks

[aavery]

Thanks bill,

I found the answer here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Thanks again