When you create a page for your web site, the page becomes associated with the tool you used to create it. You can see which tool is associated with a page in your site by opening your File Manager: To the left of the page name, you'll see an icon that represents the tool you used.
Important: You may open and edit your existing pages in a tool other than the one you used to create them. However, because each Yahoo! tool includes progressively more complex features, if you'd like to switch, you must open your pages in a more advanced tool. You can use the same tool or upgrade to the next level, but you should not downgrade to a less complex tool.
For example, you can edit a SiteWizards page with PageBuilder, or use SiteBuilder to take a site you created with PageBuilder to the next level. If you open a page you created with SiteBuilder in PageBuilder, however, you may damage your page.
The Yahoo! site building tools, in order of complexity:
If you'd like to experiment with your site building options, we recommend creating distinct pages and editing each page only with the tool you used to create it.
| If you created or edited your page with… | You can safely edit your page with… |
| Starter Web Page Wizard | Starter Web Page Wizard, PageBuilder, SiteBuilder |
| SiteWizards, PageWizards, AlbumWizards | The same wizard; PageBuilder; SiteBuilder |
| PageBuilder | PageBuilder; SiteBuilder |
| SiteBuilder | SiteBuilder |
FrontPage and Other Third-Party Tools
Yahoo! makes it easy to use third-party site building software in conjunction with your Web Hosting account. However, as with Yahoo! tools (see above), we recommend that you consider carefully which tool you use to open pages you created with third-party software. Remember that opening an existing page in a different tool will cause the page to become associated with that tool.
We recommend that you do not use a Yahoo! or other tool to modify the pages of a blog you created with third-party software such as Movable Type or WordPress: These tools may modify your pages such that they can no longer communicate with your blog control panel, and you will be unable to update your blog. Instead you can change your blog settings and content anytime from your blog control panel. Learn more.
HTML-based site building products such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive generate pages that may be edited safely in a number of tools, including SiteBuilder and even Yahoo!'s text and HTML editors.
Microsoft FrontPage, on the other hand, works very differently: The underlying code that makes FrontPage a powerful building and publishing tool also prevents it from working smoothly with similar products. FrontPage settings and components require careful configuration that can easily be disrupted if a FrontPage file is opened with another tool. For this reason, if you'd like to work with FrontPage to create your site, we recommend that you use FrontPage to make all changes and updates; do not use FTP, File Manager, or another site builder tool to create or edit pages.
Learn more about using SiteBuilder or third-party tools with File Manager.