Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft FrontPage is an HTML editor from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows operating system, which works on the WYSIWYG principle. The program belonged to the family of Office products from Microsoft and was in some versions of the Office suite of programs included. Accordingly, it was integrated into the Office Suite and supports Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. In autumn 2007, Microsoft Expression Web succeeds Microsoft FrontPage.
Overview
Microsoft FrontPage is used as a client application under Windows. In previous versions of Apple's Mac OS is supported. This product line has not been updated since 1998. The editor can refer to sites in FrontPage jargon as web, access both the local file system or shared network drives, as well as via HTTP by using self-developed server-side "Front Page Extensions ". Special Functions provides FrontPage in the current versions in the processing of Windows SharePoint Services Web, allowing major expansions and changes in Windows SharePoint Services by simple means.
Functions
FrontPage offers a number of special features that are enabled by management information in the form of vti files, so-called bots and / or XSLT. Some of these functions are similar to the scope of services, have the professional, web-based content management systems such as the automatic generation of navigation elements, the rapid and consistent change the appearance (design ) of the entire site or the full text search of the entire contents of a website. The management information is proprietary and is provided exclusively by Microsoft FrontPage and some related Microsoft products that are used (such as Windows SharePoint Services). The FrontPage bots are proprietary. Both technologies are partly a special extension on the web server, the so-called FrontPage Server Extensions ( FPSE ), ahead. In consideration rented Webhosting these are usually available. The latter of the versions of FrontPage (2002 "XP" / 2003) generated HTML code adheres to the standards of the W3C. Microsoft Office documents can be easily imported to remove proprietary source code.
Microsoft FrontPage suitable for the management of small and medium sized websites. The management of large sites with a data volume of around 10 GB with several hundred thousand objects is through the breakdown in web, Subwebs and nested sub-webs indeed also possible, but reduces this user comfort and to ensure the design and link consistency is becoming increasingly difficult.
Product history
The originally developed by Vermeer Technologies Inc. program was introduced in 1995 in the version of FrontPage 1.0 on the market. At that time there were no widespread visual HTML editors. FrontPage was from the beginning, multi-user, integrated management of websites as well as the editing of HTML pages in a packet, while the two functions were split in two applications: the FrontPage Explorer, which took over the administration, and on the other the FrontPage Editor, the then allows you to edit a single page. After a short market presence, the product was acquired by Microsoft and marketed as Microsoft FrontPage 1.1 in spring 1996 on the market.
FrontPage 2.0 was released by Microsoft in 1996 also under the name Microsoft FrontPage 97. Improved was the integration into Microsoft Office, along with special tools like the image editing program Image Composer and the web server Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS ) were added. Since this version can directly edit FrontPage HTML code.
FrontPage Express was a stripped down version of the HTML editor FrontPage 2.0 from Microsoft. This was named in reference to Outlook Express, distributed with Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0, but then adjusted again. The variant consisted only of the FrontPage editor itself, the FrontPage Explorer was missing.
FrontPage 3.0 was released as Microsoft FrontPage 98 in 1997. There are more tools for image editing, as well as the possibility of WYSIWYG editing of tables and frames integrated. In this version, the graphical representation of the structure of a website to edit the automatically generated navigation bars, as well as support for ASP scripting language has been added.
FrontPage 4.0 was released in 1999 under the name Microsoft FrontPage 2000, was the first time a single integrated application, the FrontPage Editor and FrontPage Explorer united and offered initial support for Cascading Style Sheets and could protect against changes by the program (HTML directly machined HTML code source Preservation ). In addition, many functions have been added to simplify and use, for example, the Database Results Wizard. This version also offered a rudimentary support for DHTML and XML, as well as a built-in mechanism for version control ( check in, check out). FrontPage Webs can be nested further since this version ( nested sub-webs ). It was also the first time support for simple workflow management.
FrontPage was 5.0 (also erroneously known as FrontPage XP) introduced in 2001 as Microsoft FrontPage 2002 on the market. The new features include automatically updated web content, editing of SharePoint -based Web sites through the browser, a stronger integration of the Office Clipboard and the possibility of selective publication of individual pages.
The Microsoft FrontPage version 2003 ( also known as Front Page ONG or FrontPage 11 or FrontPage 6.0) was released in 2003 and improved in particular for supporting the open web standards such as XML and WebDAV. For the first time since this version are a side ruler and a layout grid for pixel perfect HTML layout.
In Office 2007, FrontPage is no longer included. It will be replaced by Microsoft Expression Web and the free Visual Web Developer Express for website creation for the internet and SharePoint Designer for designing SharePoint pages primarily for the intranet.
Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
The Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions ( FPSE ) are extensions that complement the FrontPage client with additional functions. The FPSE are installed on the Web server and is available for Microsoft Windows platforms ( Internet Information Services ( IIS) Internet Information Server or earlier ) and Unix ( PHP, Apache) under a proprietary license.