Thank you both for responding to my questions. I searched the code in my 18 frontpage sites and I didn't use any of what I assume are 'bots': hit counter, forms, nav links. I do not plan to convert my existing sites to EW immediatley but rather plan to take course and learn to build new sites with EW. To be clear, it sounds like I can retain my frontpage sites on server with extensions turned on at example:
www.mydomain.com/frontpagesite1/
www.mydomain.com/frontpagesite2/ and then bulid and add expression sites to same root as in example below?
www.mydomain.com/expressionswidgetsite1/
www.mydomain.com/expressionsgizmosite2/ and these can be linked to and from each other and the frontpage sites.
FP will continue to function properly as it has in the past and the new EW sites will function on this same server
cdwise: I need to order EW software and want to take your next online course to learn it. Do offer any fee based personal consulting on EW since I seem to have more questions than answers? At some point in time during this transition I know I would like to be able to talk directly to someone by phone to make sure I'm doing everything right. Thank you again for maintaing this great forum. Marc G