Microsoft Frontpage
HTML Editor - Microsoft FrontPage 2003, you can create and build
dynamic and sophisticated websites using familiar Office tools. New layout
and graphics tools make it easier to design exactly the site you want,
whilst enhanced publishing features and options help you get your web pages
online quickly and simply.
FrontPage® 2003 provides the features, flexibility and functionality to help you build better websites. It includes the professional design, authoring, data and publishing tools needed to create dynamic and sophisticated websites.
FrontPage 2003 advances your web development in three key areas.
| • | Designing: Use enhanced design tools to
produce
better-looking websites. New layout and graphics tools make it easier to
design exactly the site you want. |
| • | Coding:
Use design tools to generate better code
or expand your code skills. Use built-in scripting tools for interactive
results. And with professional coding tools, you can write code faster,
more
efficiently and with greater accuracy. |
| • | Extending:
Connect with people and information
in new ways by building Extensible Markup Language (XML) data-driven
websites using the first commercially available, completely WYSIWYG
("what
you see is what you get") Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
(XSLT)
editor. The enhanced publishing features and options help you get your
web
pages online more quickly. Note XML collaboration requires Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003. |
Example of a web page being created with FrontPage 2003.
Design Better-looking Sites
FrontPage 2003 includes tools and layout and graphics features to help you work faster and design professional websites.
| • | Work with graphics
from other applications, giving you
more control over how images are displayed and saved. |
| • | Use dynamic web
templates to modify entire sections of
a website. By updating the master template, changes are automatically
made
to all pages linked to that template. |
| • | Target specific
browser or screen resolutions by using
browser and resolution reconciliation. See how your site will look in
various combinations of browsers and resolutions. |
| • | Create and manipulate
tables used for layout purposes
and provide pixel-precise control of your layout. |
| • | Use manipulation
tools to more easily work with
multiple images and pieces of content that sit in the same space and to
create visual effects, such as pop-up menus. |
Generate Code Faster and Easier
The design tools in Frontpage 2003 generate efficient and clean Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and give you more control over the code. Or, you can apply your coding knowledge by taking advantage of the professional coding tools. With the scripting tools you can create an interactive experience for your audience. And, because the coding tools are easy to work with, you can even use them to start learning HTML.
Coding Tools
| • | Use a split view to
see modifications made in the
Design View automatically updated in the Code View. |
| • | Select, modify and
manipulate tags easily using the
Quick Tag Selector and Quick Tag Editor. |
| • | Simplify code writing
and make it less prone to errors
with Microsoft IntelliSense® technology. The technology is available for
HTML, cascading style sheets, XSLT, Microsoft JScript® and Microsoft
ASP.NET.
|
| • | Remove extraneous
code generated by Microsoft Word or
other web authoring programs. |
Scripting Tools
| • | Enhance interactivity
on your site without writing a
line of code by using behaviours to author JScript. |
| • | Take advantage of
support for IntelliSense and
scripting tools for authoring JScript and Microsoft Visual Basic®
Scripting
Edition (VBScript). |
Extend the Power and Reach of Your Website
With Microsoft® Windows™ SharePoint Services and Windows Server 2003 connected to FrontPage 2003, you can modify and present live data from a range of sources, including XML, to build rich interactive data-driven websites in a WYSIWYG editor. Users can post to the web using just their browsers, while choosing from a broad range of publishing options.
Data-driven websites Enabled by Windows SharePoint Services
| • | Allow users to post
to your website using just their
browsers. web logs, issue-tracking lists and news and reviews sites can
be
built with just a couple of clicks. |
| • | Insert data views and
configure data sources -
including XML varieties, Windows SharePoint Services data, web services
and
OLE Database (OLEDB) data sources. |
| • | Handle XML data and
authoring and XSLT formatting
directly in the FrontPage WYSIWYG Design View to create XML data-driven
websites. |
| • | Show or hide items or
reformats based on data values or
position in the data view by using Dynamic conditional formatting. |
| • | Build web Parts Pages
by creating web Parts Zones and
inserting and connecting to web Parts in other products, including
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services and
FrontPage 2003. |
Publishing Technologies
| • | Move files easily
between local and remote locations
and publish in both directions. |
| • | Connect to remote
sites easily with the web import
dialog, which simplifies connection types and working with Secure
Sockets
Layer (SSL). |
| • | Publish to File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers from the new Remote web Site tab. |