Yahoo! makes it easy to use third-party site building software in conjunction with your Web Hosting account. However, as with Yahoo! tools, 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. Learn more.

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.