FRONTPAGE

Hi friends!! I´m afraight this is the last post of the course:(, but we have fishis this fantastic last therm with a microsft pregrame calle FRONTPAGE, here I explain you a litlle bit of it;

DEFINITION: WYSIWYG Web Editor. Created by Microsoft, is part of the Microsoft Office package. It is very easy to use and its main competitor is Dreamweaver, which is more powerful and is used by professional designers.

Overview of FrontPage 2003:

FrontPage 2003 provides flexibility, features and functionality to help you build better Web sites. Includes professional design tools, creation and publication data needed to create dynamic and sophisticated Web sites.

FrontPage 2003 represents a breakthrough in Web development in three key areas.

+ Design: Use enhanced design tools to produce better looking Web sites. New layout and graphics tools make designing the exact site you want.

+ Coding: Use design tools to generate better code, or expand your code skills. You can use built-in tools for scripting interactive results. And with professional coding tools, you can write code faster, more efficiently and more accurately.

+ Extension can connect with people and information in new ways by creating Web sites controlled by the data in Extensible Markup Language (XML) with the first commercially available editor is fully WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get" , what you see is what you get) for Language Transformations extensible stylesheets (XSLT, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations). The publishing features and options help you improved online publishing their Web pages faster.

Design better-looking sites:

FrontPage 2003 includes tools and layout and graphics features to help you work faster and design professional Web sites.

+ Can work with graphics from other applications, allowing you more control over how to display and save images.

+ You can use Web templates to modify entire sections of a Web site. If updating the master template, changes are automatically reflected in all pages linked to it.

+ Can design for explorers or specific screen resolutions by the browser and resolution reconciliation. You can also see how your site will look in various combinations of browsers and resolutions.

+ You can create and edit tables used for layout purposes, and provide control design with pixel precision.

+ You can use manipulation tools to more easily work with multiple images and pieces of content that occupy the same space and create visual effects, such as pop-up menus.

Generate code faster and simple

Design tools Frontpage 2003 generate efficient and clean HTML and give you more control. Or you can apply your knowledge of code to take advantage of professional encoding tools. With the scripting tools you can create an interactive experience for the recipients. And because the coding tools are easy to use, you can even use them to start in learning HTML.

Coding tools:

+ You can use a split view to see modifications to the design view automatically updated in the Code View.

+ You can select, modify and tags easily deal with the Quick Tag Selector and Quick Tag Editor.

+ Can simplify writing of code and reduce the possibility of errors with Microsoft IntelliSense ® technology. This technology is available for HTML, cascading style sheets, XSLT, Microsoft JScript ® and Microsoft ASP.NET.

+ You can remove the external code generated by Microsoft Word or other Web authoring programs.

Scripting Tools:

+ Can enhance site interactivity without writing a single line of code by using behaviors to author JScript.

+ You can use the IntelliSense support and scripting tools to create JScript and VBScript code (Microsoft Visual Basic ® Scripting Edition).

Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM21iP49C2c