Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

Overview

10-Second Summary

• Explore FrontPage 2003

• Learn about page and web site views

• Learn about design and coding tools

• Learn about Web components , page templates and wizards

• Learn about advanced authoring options

FrontPage 2003 is the culmination of a decade of work toward building the best Web site creation and management tool. From previous versions, it inherits a rich foundation of reliable, proven features and support for all standard file formats and protocols. This allows you to design Web pages that take advantage of tables, frames , cascading style sheets, and use many other Internet technologies. For good measure, FrontPage 2003 adds extensive interface enhancements and new capabilities that programmers and designers have been asking for.

When you start working with FrontPage 2003, you ll notice many of the interface enhancements immediately. These changes are hard to miss if you ve worked with previous versions of FrontPage “ and even if you haven t worked with FrontPage before, it s hard not to see that there is something truly different and unique here.

In this chapter, you ll learn about FrontPage 2003 s key features. You'll learn about the various ways you can work with pages and Web sites, and the design and coding tools that are available. The chapter also introduces powerful features that help you do more, and do more quickly, with FrontPage 2003, including page wizards, page templates, Web components and product extensions.