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FrontPage 2000 for Win95/98/NTFrom the publisher:
The Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool makes it easier to create and maintain the Web site you want with features such as new customizable design themes and enhanced hypertext markup language (HTML) editing capabilities. For instance, with FrontPage 2000, you can display HTML tags in Normal View and more easily set and apply your preferences for HTML formatting. FrontPage also gives you more power than ever to collaborate over the Web.
Creating for the Web with FrontPage 2000
With the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool, you get greater control over your Web pages, so they are easier to create and work with.Flexibility and Control: These FrontPage 2000 features are designed to help you create the Web pages you want.
- Pixel-precise positioning and layering - With FrontPage 2000, you have the control to place graphics, text, and other elements wherever you want them, and to layer content through absolute and relative positioning.
- Custom themes - For a consistent look within a Web page or across a Web site, choose from 60 new predesigned, ready- to- use themes. Then, if you want, customize the colors, logos, graphics, backgrounds, and bullets.
- DHTML animation - With the click of a button, add dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML) animation and collapsible outlines that will work in Netscape Navigator version 4.0 and later and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and later. (In version 3.0 browsers, animations will appear as static graphics.)
- Color tools - Using FrontPage 2000 enhanced color tools, you can select custom colors from a color picker or color wheel, add a color from a graphic to your custom colors, or choose from complete color schemes.
- Cascading style sheets (CSS) - Use CSS to apply customized and consistent formatting to a single Web page, several pages, or across a site.
HTML Editing: FrontPage 2000 makes it easier to work with HTML.
- HTML preservation - You can use FrontPage 2000 to edit existing HTML and scripts (including active server pages) created with other tools. FrontPage will preserve the original code, including tag and comment order, capitalization, and white space.
- Insert code in HTML View - With FrontPage 2000, you can quickly insert code in HTML View using buttons or drop- down menus.
- Personalize HTML formatting - Set your preferences for how to indent code, what colors tags should appear in, when to capitalize, and when to use optional tags. When you create or import content, FrontPage will apply your preferences.
- See HTML tags in WYSIWYG view - In Normal (or WYSIWYG, what you see is what you get) View, use the Reveal HTML Tags option to see the tags that are responsible for your page effects.
Database Integration: Put data to work in your Web pages using these Microsoft Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 features.
- Data access pages - Using Microsoft Access 2000 data access pages, you can easily incorporate databases into FrontPage 2000 Web pages so that users can add to or edit them within a browsers.
- Create Database button - With this button, you can create or modify an Access database based on form data on a page. It. s as easy as creating a form.
- Improved Database Results Wizard - This wizard makes it possible to incorporate database queries easily into your pages, even if you have no database experience. When you use the wizard, current data is imported from the database each time your Web page loads.
Web-Technology Support: FrontPage 2000 supports the latest Web technology.
- Prebuilt Web components - FrontPage 2000 components, such as the Category component, and Office Web components, such as the Spreadsheet, PivotTable, and Chart components, help you insert advanced functionality into your Web pages.
- Microsoft Script Editor - This built- in editor makes quick work of editing and debugging scripts, including JavaScript and Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition.
- Edit HTML, DHTML, script, ASP, and XML - With the HTML tab, you can view and edit pages and scripts, including HTML, DHTML, script, active server pages (ASP), and Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Extensibility and Programmability: Developers, these FrontPage 2000 features are for you.
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications - Use this development system to build powerful FrontPage-based solutions, and extend them across Microsoft Office applications.
- Application, document, and Web object models - These allow developers to manipulate FrontPage and FrontPage- created Web pages programmatically.
- Integration with Design Time Controls and Microsoft Visual InterDev - To extend FrontPage functionality, create Design Time Controls with the Microsoft Visual InterDev Web development system.
Managing Web Sites with FrontPage 2000
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 is more than a Web site creation tool -- it. s also a Web site management tool. You can use FrontPage 2000 to set up, maintain, monitor, and update your site and to collaborate with others on it.Management Reports and Views: Keep track of what's happening on your FrontPage 2000-based Web site.
- Page View - With FrontPage 2000, you can view, edit, and manage your pages using the integrated FrontPage Explorer and FrontPage Editor.
- Improved views - Changes to several FrontPage views deliver new capabilities:
- Folders View - Use this to see all of the Web pages, graphics, and files in your Web site.
- Reports View - Use this to see your Web pages, graphics, and files, and easily run reports that list issues such as slow pages; unlinked, recently added, or changed files; broken hyperlinks; checkout status for any of the files; and so on.
- Navigation View- Use this to quickly create navigation bars, view your site. s layout, extend settings across editing sessions, and zoom in to specific nodes for a close- up view.
- Hyperlinks View - Use this to see all items linked to or from a page or Microsoft Office 2000 document and whether any links are broken.
- Tasks View - Use this to track tasks, including to whom a task is assigned and its status, description, and priority.
Publishing: These features improve on FrontPage publishing capabilities.
- Page-level control - With FrontPage 2000, set specific pages as . do not publish. or publish only pages that have changed.
- Progress indicator - This feature clearly communicates what is happening during the publishing process.
- Publish anywhere - Use the built-in file transfer protocol (FTP) to publish to an Internet service provider (ISP) running the Microsoft Windows NT Server network operating system or a broad variety of UNIX platforms and operating systems -- with or without FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
Collaboration: Use FrontPage 2000 to work with others on the Web.
- Nested sub- Webs - In addition to setting rights to the Web as a whole, you can set rights for subgroups so that they can control their sub- Webs.
- Check in/check out - Prevent others from editing a file in your FrontPage- based Web site, and quickly revert to the previous version of a file if needed.
- Workflow reports - When you save pages, assign responsibility for them to specific people and set up and assign approval levels or stages in your publishing process if you want.
- Improved Save to Web - Anyone using Microsoft Office 2000 can open and save Office 2000 documents to a FrontPage- based Web site.
- Improved multi-user and remote authoring and management - FrontPage 2000 helps users work together by allowing them to:
- Author and add content to FrontPage- based Web sites simultaneously
- Author content to a server running FrontPage Server Extensions
- Save user environment preferences across editing sessions
- Administer FrontPage- based Web sites remotely
Automated Routine Tasks: FrontPage 2000 frees you from worrying about missing or broken links.
- Category component - Using the Category component, you can make sure that pages are automatically updated with links to new Web pages and Microsoft Office documents that you publish to your FrontPage- based Web site.
- Improved automatic hyperlink fix-up - When you rename or move a page or graphic in your FrontPage-based Web site, FrontPage automatically fixes your hyperlinks.
Work-Anywhere Features: With FrontPage 2000, it. s easy to work with other products and technologies.
- Target specific browsers, features, and servers - When you begin by selecting the environments you want to target-browser, server, FrontPage Server Extensions, active server pages, dynamic hypertext markup language, cascading style sheets, Java language, or script -- FrontPage 2000 turns off features that won. t work in these environments.
- Compatibility with other Microsoft products - FrontPage 2000 uses the same management console as Windows NT Server and other BackOffice Server family applications. FrontPage is included with Windows NT Server, Site Server, and the Visual InterDev Web development system.
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