Microsoft Frontpage 2002

[balloney]

Can I tranfer sites made in Fontpage 2002, over to a more modern version.

As the Internet Explorer browser is no longer operational.

And could it be better ?

[Buenchico]

Theoretically you can edit the HTML files produced by any web design program in any other web design program but it's often far, far harder in practice.

Microsoft replaced FrontPage with Expression Web.  It used to be available (in a free version) on the Microsoft website but it's been discontinued there.  It's still available on Major Geeks (which is a reliable website) though:
https:/www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/microsoft_expression_web,1.html

Your website could then be imported in Expression Web for editing:
https://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/frontpage-to-expression-web.html

Unlike FrontPage though, Expression Web is far from user-friendly for a beginner.  So it might not meet your needs particularly well.

Further, you need to remember that modern websites now use 'responsive web design', where there are actually different versions of each site for PCs, tablets and smartphones.  (If, for example, you view The AnswerBank on your phone, it will look very different to how it looks on your laptop).  Each of those different versions will also automatically adjust to fit the width of the screen on which it's being viewed.  

So you really ought to be looking for web design software which can accommodate responsive web design.  Unfortunately though, that's likely to involve spending some money.

When I agreed to update the website of the late Woodelf, I initially hoped to use a basic HTML editing program but I just couldn't get it to look right while it wasn't 'responsive'.  I eventually got around the problem by starting completely afresh with a modern 'responsive' desgn program, with a bit of 'cheating' by creating only a single version of Woodelf's site that automatically adjusts in width to fit anything from a smartphone screen to a wide PC monitor (but with an absolute width limit set at the upper level, so that the text doesn't become unreadable when stretched too much).

The software I used for Woodelf's website was Xara Web Designer Premium, which I bought for a one-off payment.  However that's now been discontinued in favour of Xara Web Designer+, which is only offered on a subscription basis.  However I see that there's a free (time-limited) trial version available.  So, if you're only creating a single website, you might like to give it a go to see if it meets your needs:
https://www.xara.com/webdesigner-plus/

[Tuvok]

Have you got these sites hosted?

If so you should use a CMS (content management system) eg. WordPress or similar.

 

https://blog.hubspot.com/website/upload-html-file-to-wordpress

[balloney]

My main issue is that I cannot view the pages in any browser,

When I click on the View in Browser, it has the Internet Explorer as default, this has not been a problem till recent times.

I seemingly cannot get  Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge to show the pages in a browser.

Any help ?

[Tuvok]

Just a thought - open the html file in Word, then save it as a different filename but still html and see if your browsers can open it.

(I normall would avoid doing that because of all the extraneous stuff word adds, but it might be the extraneous stuff that cures the issue)

[Buenchico]

If you're using the 'Preview in browser' toolbar icon, you won't see an option to change your browser.  If, however, you go to the File menu, and then select 'Preview in browser' from there, you can choose which browser to use.

Once you actually exported your work to a completed website though, you can open the site in your default web browser by double-clicking on the 'Index' file (or in any other browser by right-clicking on that file and selecting 'Open with').

[JimF]

How big is the site? Might it not be simpler, and quicker, just to rewrite it in modern software?