Microsoft FrontPage (full name Microsoft Office FrontPage ) is a discontinued HTML editor and WYSIWYG website administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. Microsoft FrontPage has since been supplanted by Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer, which was first released in December 2006 with Microsoft Office 2007, but both of these products also discontinued support for Web-based versions from SharePoint Designer, because the three HTML editors are desktop applications.
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FrontPage was originally created by Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, a proof that can be easily found in the file name and the prefix directory _vti _ on a website created using FrontPage. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so Microsoft can add FrontPage to its product lineup which enables them to gain an advantage in browser wars, as FrontPage is designed to create web pages for their own browser, Internet Explorer.
As a "WYSIWYG" editor (What You See Is What You Get), FrontPage is designed to hide the page's HTML code details from users, enabling beginners to create web pages and websites easily.
FrontPage's initial outing under the name Microsoft came in 1996 with the release of Windows NT 4.0 Server and its Internet Information Services 2.0 drafting server. Bundled on a CD with the release of NT 4.0 Server, FrontPage 1.1 will run under NT 4.0 (Server or Workstation) or Windows 95. Up to FrontPage 98, the FrontPage Editor , which is used to design pages, is a separate application from FrontPage Explorer used to manage website folders. With FrontPage 2000, the two programs are merged into Editor .
FrontPage is used to request a set of server side plugins that were originally known as IIS Extensions. The extension set was significantly upgraded for Microsoft FrontPage inclusion into Microsoft Office line-up with Office 97 and later renamed FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE). Both sets of extensions need to be installed on the target web server for content and publishing features to work. Microsoft offers both Windows and Unix-based FPSE versions. FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions works with earlier versions of FrontPage as well. FPSE 2002 is the last release version that also works with FrontPage 2003 and later updated to IIS 6.0 as well. However, with FrontPage 2003, Microsoft began to move away from exclusive Server Extensions to standard protocols such as FTP and WebDAV for remote publishing and web creation. FrontPage 2003 can also be used with Windows SharePoint Services.
Versions for the classic Mac OS were released in 1998; However, it has fewer features than Windows products and Microsoft never updated it.
In 2006, Microsoft announced that FrontPage would eventually be replaced by two products. Microsoft SharePoint Designer will enable business professionals to design SharePoint-based applications. Microsoft Expression Web is targeted at web design professionals for the creation of feature-rich websites. Microsoft stopped Microsoft FrontPage in December 2006.
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Features
Some features in the latest version of FrontPage include:
- FrontPage 2003 consists of a Separate View option that allows users to encode in Code View and preview in Design View without having to switch from the Design and Code View tab for each review.
- Dynamic Web Templates (DWT) is included for the first time in FrontPage 2003 that allows users to create a single template that can be used across multiple pages and even entire Web sites.
- The Interactive button gives users a new easy way to create Web graphs for navigation and links, eliminating the need for complex image editing packages like Adobe Photoshop that are not sold by Microsoft.
- Accessibility checkers give users the ability to check whether their code complies with the standards and that their websites are easily accessible to people with disabilities. The HTML optimizer is included to help optimize the code for easier readability and faster processing.
- Intellisense, which is an autocomplete form, is a key feature in FrontPage 2003 that helps users when typing in Code View. When working on Code View, Intellisense will suggest tags and/or properties for user-entered code that are intended to significantly reduce the time for code writing. The Quick Tag Editor shows their current tag users when editing in Design View. It also includes options for editing specific tags/properties from within the Tag Editor.
- The Code snippet gives users the advantage of making snippets of code they used to allow them to save for easy access whenever needed.
- FrontPage 2003 includes support for programming in ASP.NET, a server-side scripting language that adds interactivity to Web sites and Web pages.
- FrontPage 2003 includes support for macros in VBA.
Version
- 1995 - Vermeer FrontPage 1.0
- 1996Ã, - Microsoft FrontPage 1.1
- 1996Ã, - Microsoft FrontPage 97 (version 2)
- 1997Ã, - Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0 (a simple free web page editor comes with Internet Explorer 4 and 5, and can be found online from various shareware websites)
- 1997 - Microsoft FrontPage for Macintosh 1.0
- 1997Ã, - Microsoft FrontPage 98 (version 3)
- 1999Ã, - Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (version 9): Included in the Office 2000 Premium and Developer editions
- 2001Ã, - Microsoft FrontPage 2002 (version 10): Included in Office XP Professional with FrontPage (license volume only), Office XP Professional Special Edition and Office XP Developer editions.
- 2003 - Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 (version 11): Not included in any edition of Office 2003, sold separately. It is included with Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition.
Note : There is no official version 4 to 8, because after FrontPage is included in some Office editions, the version number follows their version number of Office. However, the version number can appear in the HTML code meta tag generated by this version of FrontPage.
Server Extensions
FrontPage Server Extensions is a software technology that allows FrontPage clients to communicate with web servers, and provides additional functionality intended for websites. A frequent security issue has damaged Microsoft's exclusive technology history. It depends on HTTP protocol for communications, and CGI/POST for server-side processing.
IDE Software Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 uses this technology for file synchronization purposes, and relies heavily on this technology for file management. Most of the. Microsoft NET This outdated product supports WebDAV, but Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 are still publishing ClickOnce apps to websites with FrontPage Server Extensions.
See also
- Microsoft Expression Web
- FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE)
- SharePoint Designer
- Internet Information Services
- Office suite comparisons
- Comparison of HTML editors
- List of HTML editors
References
External links
- Upgrade to Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 on MSDN
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