Microsoft FrontPage (later full name Microsoft Office FrontPage) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was part of Microsoft Office application suite from 1997 to 2003. A Macintosh version was also released in 1998. Microsoft FrontPage has since been replaced by Microsoft Expression Web and Sharepoint Designer, which were released in December 2006. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 91 KB) Summary Microsoft FrontPage 2003 screenshot Licensing This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software for Microsoft Windows, and copyright for it is most likely held by the author(s) or the company that created the software. ... Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for October, 2003. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... WYSIWYG (IPA Pronunciation [] or []), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ... An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. ... A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows, and Apples Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. ... Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program currently under development by Microsoft, replacing Microsoft FrontPage. ... Microsoft SharePoint Designer (full name Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program from Microsoft, replacing Microsoft Office FrontPage. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

One of the notable features of FrontPage is its built-in support for automated web templates. The main distinction between these templates and HTML templates generated by other products is that FrontPage templates include an automatic navigation system that creates animated buttons for pages that have been added by the user. It also creates a multi-level navigation system on the fly using the buttons and the structure of the web site. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... In relation to computer technology, on the fly describes activities that develop or occur dynamically rather than as the result of something that is statically predefined. ...

History

FrontPage was initially created by the Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in filenames and directories prefixed _vti_ in web sites created using FrontPage. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up.^[1]   Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02138, 02139, 02140, 02141, 02142 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... Vermeer Technologies Incorporated was a software company founded in 1994 by Charles H. Ferguson and Randy Forgaard. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

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FrontPage's initial outing under the Microsoft name came in 1996 with the release of Windows NT 4.0 Server and its constituent HTTPd server Internet Information Services 2.0. Bundled on CD with the NT 4.0 Server release, FrontPage 1.1 would run under NT 4.0 (Server or Workstation) or Windows 95, and was aimed at providing server administrators with a tool to deliver rich web and intranet content in a package as easy to use as Microsoft Word. Windows NT 4. ... Httpd can mean several things: The Apache HTTP Server. ... Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS; sometimes, erroneously called Server or System) is a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows. ...

FrontPage used to require a set of server-side plugins originally known as IIS Extensions. The extension set was significantly enhanced for Microsoft inclusion of FrontPage into the Microsoft Office line-up with the 97 release and subsequently renamed FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE). Both sets of extensions needed to be installed on the target web server for its content and publishing features to work. Microsoft offered both Windows and Unix-based versions of FPSE. However, newer versions of FrontPage also support the standard WebDAV protocol for remote web publishing and authoring.^[2] A plugin (plug-in, addin, add-in, addon or add-on) is a computer program that interacts with a main (or host) application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function on demand. ... Software technology that allows Frontpage clients communicate with web servers, and provide additional functionality intended for websites. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web... WebDAV was an IETF working group. ...

A version for Mac OS was released in 1998; however, it had fewer features than the Windows product and Microsoft has not updated it since.^[3] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean by UNESCO. [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...

In 2006, Microsoft announced that FrontPage would eventually be superseded by two products.[1] Microsoft SharePoint Designer will allow business professionals to design SharePoint-based applications. Microsoft Expression Web is targeted for web design professionals who create full-blown web sites. Both are partially based on FrontPage.^{[citation needed]} Microsoft announced that they will be discontinuing Microsoft FrontPage by December 2006. Microsoft SharePoint Designer (full name Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program from Microsoft, replacing Microsoft Office FrontPage. ... The term SharePoint can refer to any of three pairs of Microsoft software products which were released in the same timeframe: In 2001: SharePoint Team Services (STS) which ran on Windows 2000 Server and was in effect Windows SharePoint Services version 1. ... Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program currently under development by Microsoft, replacing Microsoft FrontPage. ... December 2006 is the twelfth and final month of the year and will begin in 2 day(s). ...

Features

Some features that are part of the last version of FrontPage include:

• Help navigating through your site, and seeing your file structure, visually
• Built-in features for HTML, CSS, and Java / JavaScript (partial)
• Built in image editor (MS Image Composer)
• Point-and-click functionality for common tools, like mouseovers, e-mail forms, and hit counts
• Simple to use with previous knowledge of Office products
• Integrated data display with Office products like Access and Excel
• Support for CSS-based themes (like ASP.NET master pages)
• When you change the URL of a page, all the links to that page are dynamically changed
• Task-assignment for team projects
• Content is editable from anywhere with FrontPage (password is needed)
• Support for rich clipboard data import (i.e. copy/pasting data from Internet Explorer into FrontPage 2003 will automatically download media resources such as images and save them locally)

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Criticism

Some criticism of FrontPage include:

• Invalid HTML code is generated by the WYSIWYG mode, resulting in a page that is only rendered as intended in Microsoft's own Trident rendering engine used in Internet Explorer; however, version 2003 is capable of generating so-called "valid XHTML"^{[citation needed]}
• FrontPage is not ideal for managing a medium to large corporate website (Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express Edition are better suited.)^{[citation needed]}
• The user interface buries HTML properties in drop down menus and wizards.

Trident (also known as MSHTML) is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax. ... Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsofts flagship software development product for computer programmers. ...

Versions

The FrontPage 98 box cover

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in web-authoring mode

The final version of FrontPage is Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. The company has introduced two new products to replace Frontpage called Microsoft Expression Web and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. Previous versions include: Image File history File links FrontPage98. ... Image File history File links FrontPage98. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x738, 58 KB) Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (XP) Version 4. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x738, 58 KB) Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (XP) Version 4. ... Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program currently under development by Microsoft, replacing Microsoft FrontPage. ... Microsoft SharePoint Designer (full name Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer) is an WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program from Microsoft, replacing Microsoft Office FrontPage. ...

• Vermeer FrontPage 1.0
• 1995 Microsoft FrontPage 1.1
• 1997 Microsoft FrontPage 97 (version 2)
• 1997 Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0 (free stripped-down version came with Internet Explorer, and could be found online from numerous "download" repositories^[4][5]
• 1998 Microsoft FrontPage for Macintosh 1.0
• 1998 Microsoft FrontPage 98 (version 3)
• 1999 Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (version 4)
• 2001 Microsoft FrontPage 2002 (version 5)
• Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 (version 6)

1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer), and commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean by UNESCO. [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean by UNESCO. [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• List of HTML editors
• Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors

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References

1. ^ Microsoft (January 16, 1996). Microsoft Acquires Vermeer Technologies Inc.. Press release. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
2. ^ FrontPage 2003 Frequently Asked Questions. Microsoft. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
3. ^ Frequently Asked Questions About FrontPage. Microsoft. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
4. ^ "You can find the latest version at the www.microsoft.com Web site" in Ruth Maran et al: Office 97 - Superbook, 1998, Marangraphics, ISBN 1-896283-42-X
5. ^ "Frontpage Express is included with Internet Explorer to make it easy for you to upload all of your HTML pages to a server" in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 - Step by Step, 1997, Catapult/Microsoft Press, ISBN 1-57231-514-8

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External links

• Microsoft Expression Web information & download
• Article about Vermeer from 1995
• Microsoft's FrontPage site
• History of FrontPage - Release Dates and Vermeer FrontPage History Timelines