Section 13.2. Web design by example

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13.2. Web design by example

FrontPage uses a design by example paradigm, in which you design a Web page by inserting data views of representative data sources. You organize the data in the views and apply formatting styles. The product then generates an XSLT stylesheet that will produce the same Web page from any data source that conforms to the same schema as the representative.

Ellen, whom you may remember from 7.2, "The Worldwide Widget expense report", on page 134, decides to use FrontPage to create a Web page for the company intranet to expedite the expense approval process. In the following sections, we will go through the process step by step:

1. Set up a SharePoint website.

2. Define one or more representative data sources.

3. Create data views of the whole of the data sources or of selected elements.

4. Organize the viewed data by sorting, grouping, filtering, etc.

5. Format the data view from a choice of layouts and styles, including data-driven conditional formatting.

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