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Product:
Office XP Beta 2
Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/office
Estimated Street Price: NA
Preview By: Active
Network
Microsoft FrontPage 2002
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Frontpage is another frequently used program and it�s a must have software that I regularly use to update websites I manage. Any improvements to make me work more efficiently are greatly appreciated and thank god, FrontPage 10 is full of new features. Microsoft once again doesn�t disappoint us since the program was totally rethought once again. As a reminder for those who forgot, originally Microsoft didn�t make FrontPage. When Microsoft in 1996 felt that the Internet became unavoidable they bought this website editing software from another company. Since then there were many FrontPage versions each one better than the previous and changing the way you�re working with websites to provide more efficient solutions. Versions 95 & 97 of FrontPage were slow and not user-friendly, with FrontPage 98 Microsoft started to show improvements. Then came Microsoft FrontPage 2000, which was probably the most accomplished version of the software by respecting and treating correctly HTML code to avoid any compatibility worries. FrontPage 10 is a new exciting challenge for the Microsoft FrontPage development team, which they raised successfully. So lets see what Microsoft has done to improve an already great program. The first major enhancement of FrontPage 10 you instantly notice is that you can open several pages in the same window thanks to the new tab feature: using the tab you can easily switch from a page to another, staying in the same window! A real revolution compared to FrontPage 2000.
MultiPage View thanks to the new
FrontPage tabs
Sure, for each page you display you can enable three different views:
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The design one is the place where you create your page from the scratch. You can use one of the predefined templates if you�re not really inspired or build your own one very easily just like if you were working with Publisher. Indeed the major advantage of FrontPage is its WYSIWYG design environment. With other web editing tools you may not get the result you were expecting when you designed the page. Here people that hate HTML code don�t even have to worry about it since they create web pages as easily as typing a letter in Word and the result they get in their browser is exactly represents what they have designed.
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The HTML view is for pros only. Anyway thanks to that French scientist (cocorico) of the CNRS that created this language� Indeed instead of making a complex language the one he created �HTML� (hyper text markup language) is really easy to learn and to understand and don�t require too much or practice. Obviously the HTML editor uses color codes to highlight portions of code and let you quickly identify which part is used for.
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Finally the design view of FrontPage 10 lets you view the page you�ve created exactly as it�ll be shown by your browser.
Building a website becomes as easy as constructing Legos with FrontPage 10. Indeed Microsoft FrontPage 10 gives you the power to add dynamic content with the new Photo Gallery component, cross-browser enhanced Drawing Tools, and Automatic Web Content from Microsoft MSN�, MSNBC, Expedia, and bCentral. Users can save time and achieve professional-looking results by using sophisticated technology such as fully customizable Themes, customized lists, and quick-to-build surveys without having to know or spend time on complex programming. In addition to that all the DHTML and other banner effects remain always easy to apply in order to create high technology websites. Many other new features are included in FrontPage 10 like:
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Photo Gallery - Users can quickly and easily create a Photo Gallery to display photos or images. They can add images to the Photo Gallery, select from several different customizable layouts, add captions and descriptions to images, reorder images, change image sizes, and switch layouts.
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Enhanced Drawing Tools - Enhanced drawing tools such as auto-shapes, drop shadows, Word Art, and text boxes are as easy to use because they are in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. This also means that users can easily paste any shapes they have created in other Office applications directly into FrontPage.
Automatic Web Content -
Users can
add Automatic Web Content to their Web site by inserting MSNBC headlines
and weather forecasts, MSN search, Expedia maps, and bCentral small
business tools. Inserted content is updated daily by the respective
sources, so users can have continuously updated content without having to
continually update their site.
Insert Browser-Editable Lists
- Users can insert lists, via Microsoft SharePoint technology, that they
have created from scratch or selected from a variety of list templates such
as Announcements, Events, Tasks, and Contacts. Authorized users can easily
edit, customize, and subscribe to these lists from level 4 or later
browsers, and these lists can be exported to key Office 10 applications.
Insert Discussion Boards
- Users can insert a Discussion Board, making it easy for team members and
visitors to the Web site to participate in newsgroup-style threaded
discussions. Users decide who can see the discussions and who can
contribute to them. This functionality is made possible through Microsoft
SharePoint technology.
Insert Dynamic Online Surveys
- This feature enables users to create and insert dynamic Online Surveys,
complete with easy-to-add radio buttons, drop-down menus, and check boxes.
Visitors can respond to surveys from their browsers and can choose to see
results in automatic graphs. Users can simplify their survey creation with
template choices, or create surveys quickly with the Survey Wizard. Dynamic
Online Surveys are made possible through Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Theme
- Users can apply a virtually limitless variety of formatting options with
67 customizable Themes. Each of the Themes have been updated in FrontPage
10 and each has its own look and feel, including coordinated bullets,
buttons, background, page banner, horizontal line, and font styles. Users
can apply a Theme across a single page or all pages in their site. Themes
can be also applied to Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft SharePoint
based Web sites.
Border Drop-down Tool Button -
Border Drop-down Tool Button enables users to add borders of any color or
background color to text or graphics quickly and conveniently. This makes
adding borders in FrontPage as easy as it is in Microsoft Word or Microsoft
Excel, and there is no need to put the text or graphics into tables.
Page Tabs -
Page Tabs
make editing many pages at once easier. Users can open several pages in
FrontPage and switch from page to page with just a click on the tab that
represents that page.
Navigation Pane -
Users can
access the Folder List and Navigation Pane from the main FrontPage. This
enables them to continue to edit pages while alternating between managing
files and folders to manage the way the pages link to each other.
Table Editing: Table AutoFormat, Table Fill, and Table Split
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Table AutoFormat provides a fast and easy way to create
professional-looking tables. Users can select the style they want to use,
and FrontPage automatically changes the table�s borders, shading, and
colors.
With the new Table Fill, users can quickly repeat the contents
of an individual cell to the right of the cell (Fill Right) or below the cell
(Fill Down). This saves time when users want to copy the same content to
multiple cells.
Table Split enables users to divide a table at any location
quickly and easily. This is convenient when users want to add text or
graphics in between rows in a table.
Task Pane -
The Task
Pane enables users to have easy access to frequently used commands such as
New Page or Web, Web Site Templates, Insert Clip Art, Search, and Office
Clipboard.
Office Clip Board -
Office Clip
Board helps users copy or cut content from Office applications and quickly
paste them into Web pages they are creating with FrontPage. Users can
visually see representations of the content on the clipboard in the Task
Pane, and they have the option of preserving the source or destination
text, formatting, or pasting only the text without the formatting.
Link Bars
- Users can build Custom Link Bars to link to pages on or off their site.
They can create Link Bars via the Navigation View to be applied site-wide,
or create ad-hoc Link Bars to apply them anywhere they want in their Web.
Users can place Link Bars in shared borders for site-wide navigation, or
they can insert them anywhere on any page in their Web.
Users can also use the Link Bars as �back� and �next� links to
chain their Web pages together in sequence, or they can include only one link
to make a quick button. Users can even insert Link Bars into pages on their
site with Microsoft Word 10.
Web Components
- FrontPage Web Components such as hit counter, banner ad manager,
marquees, hover buttons, link bars, and Web-wide search make inserting
sophisticated technology into Web sites fast and easy. New components in
FrontPage 10 include Photo Gallery, Link Bars, Top 10 Lists, List Views
from Microsoft SharePoint, Save to Database, and Automatic Web Content such
as headline news and maps.
Inline Frames via HTML 4 based Support -
FrontPage 10
offers support for features enabled by advanced technology such as HTML 4,
including Inline Frames, language attributes, and button and fieldsets in
forms.
Frontpage also has new tools in there for people that run the
website making a daunting task like that a lot easier:
Usage Analysis
- Usage Analysis Reports can help users better understand who visits their
site. This feature enables users to quickly find what pages are getting the
most hits and how customers find their site with referring URLs in daily,
weekly, or monthly reports. These reports can be exported to HTML or
Microsoft Excel and can be filtered and charted to show the exact
information users want.
Top 10 Lists -
Users can
quickly insert Top 10 Lists that link to the Top 10 pages on their site.
The Top 10 pages can be determined by the number page hits, referring
domains, referring URLs, search strings, visiting users, and more. These
lists are automatically refreshed when the user comes to the page. This
feature can be used on Internet or intranet sites.
Enhanced Reporting -
With
FrontPage 10 Enhanced Reports, you can monitor your site�s performance by
quickly finding slow or unlinked files or pages and broken hyperlinks. You
can also auto filter the reports and export the data to HTML or to
Microsoft Excel.
Also control on how your HTML code looks has not been
forgotten:
Paste the Way You Want
- When users paste content into their FrontPage-based Web site from other
applications, they can now decide whether they want to preserve the
formatting from the document they copied (Keep Source Formatting) or let
the page�s Theme or style change the formatting (Use Destination Styles),
or strip out all of the formatting and simply paste in the text (Keep Text
Only).
Microsoft didn�t forget programmers! FrontPage 10 includes many new features
to ease their life. For XML lovers the new Apply XML Formatting Rule
automatically takes an HTML page and reformats its HTML tags to make them
XML-compliant: great! In order to produce homogeneous pages if on a site you
can use the new HTML Reformatting feature that enables the user to tell
FrontPage how their HTML page should be formatted�from how many indents
should come before each tag to whether or not to use optional tags. New in
FrontPage 10 is the ability to take a page that has been imported into a Web
and reformat the page according to the user�s preferences. Finally a very
important feature is the new Active Server Page (ASP) Source Code
Preservation that let users to edit content in pages containing ASP code
without disturbing the ASP code. Now, FrontPage 10 always opens the ASP page
in Normal View mode, regardless of whether the ASP code violates convention
(such as multiple <head>, or <body> tags).
Also added into Frontpage is Microsoft Sharepoint. Microsoft
SharePoint technology enables custom Web pages and collaboration capabilities
to be truly accessible to whole teams or organizations. It is possible to
edit Microsoft SharePoint sites straight from a browser, making it simple and
accessible for everyone to participate in discussions, surveys,
announcements, and more. For more information see the Microsoft SharePoint
Product Guide.
In addition, FrontPage 10 has not only increased the number of
available languages to 26, but has also added Unicode Support that enables
users to alternate between supported languages while they create and edit Web
sites. This international support enables users to work in the appropriate
languages with team members who are all over the world.
Sharepoint also increases communication and collaboration:
Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft SharePoint enables users to quickly set up a team Web site for
the intranet or Internet. This enables the team to store, find, and share
information, documents, and Web pages.
Browser-Based Editing of Microsoft SharePoint-Based Sites
- Users can edit Microsoft SharePoint content, upload documents, and
participate in threaded discussions directly from the browser. All team
members can contribute and interact with the Web site using the tools they
prefer, and they can even receive automatic notification when pages or
discussions are modified.
Discussions and Subscriptions -
With
Discussions, users can post and reply to comments on pages on their site or
on any Web page on the Internet. They can also sign up to receive an e-mail
notification when
discussions have changed or when pages on their site have changed.
Customization and Integration with FrontPage
- With FrontPage, users can customize their Microsoft SharePoint team Web
sites. Users can create and apply custom Themes; insert graphics, Link
Bars, and Automatic Web Content; and insert lists such as Announcements,
Events, Contacts, Surveys, and Links
on
their Web site for all to view and contribute.
Document Library -
Users can
add a Document Library that lets them store documents in one location for
everyone (or only specific people) to access. Users can create a new
document for the Document Library from a specified template or upload
existing documents to the Document Library. They can also sort and filter
the lists of documents in the Document Libraries as well as update or
contribute new information to the Document Library from any level 4 or
later browser.
Another feature added is E-Commerce Functionality:
bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in for FrontPage -
Users can now easily add e-commerce functionality to their FrontPage-based
site via bCentral�s Commerce Manager service. The Commerce Manager service
and the Commerce Manager Add-in for FrontPage allow users to quickly build
a catalog of items to sell online. Users can subscribe to the Microsoft
bCentral Commerce Manager service and then easily insert �buy� buttons and
a shopping cart into their Web site.
Auctions via bCentral Commerce Manager -
Once users
subscribe to the bCentral Commerce Manager service, they can take their
e-commerce functionality one step further by promoting their products
across Internet auction sites like MSN eShop Auctions and Fair Market
Auctions with an optional upgrade package. Users can access this
functionality via the bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in for FrontPage.
Database Interface Wizard -
Users can
display the contents of a database on their page by using the Database
Interface Wizard. This Wizard comprehensively generates the forms and pages
needed to create a Web site front-end for data.
Users can allow other, specific users to edit or delete
records from the database via a Web page that is created with this wizard,
while at the same time allowing everyone who can browse the site to add new
records and view existing ones. Additionally, it enables users to filter data
more quickly to find what they are looking for.
Enhanced Drawing Tools
Theme Browser
Microsoft FrontPage Web Mapping View
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