Frontpage 98 - OEM CD
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Create Great-Looking Web Sites
Easy-to-use features let you create professional Web sites without having
to write code. Create WYSIWYG ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get")
frames pages and draw HTML tables in the WYSIWYG FrontPage
98 Editor. Add sophisticated, interactive functionality using FrontPage
components. Innovative imaging tools and intelligent design assistance make it
easier than ever to build great-looking Web sites. Add rich, dynamic graphics
to your sites using Microsoft Image Composer, Microsoft GIF Animator, and more
than 2,000 image samples. With FrontPage
98, you can include powerful Web functionality in your sites by adding
Java applets, Microsoft ActiveX controls, and browser plug-ins. Support for databases
and Active Server Pages allows you to include database content in your Web pages
and lets users perform dynamic database queries on your site over the Web.
Manage
Your Web Sites Your Way
Comprehensive management tools let you quickly
build and maintain well-organized Web sites. View your site's navigational structure,
directories of information, hyperlinks, hyperlink status, or all files at once.
With automatic hyperlink maintenance, you have the freedom to make changes without
worrying about broken links, and with site-wide thematic styles, you can easily
update your site's look with the click of a button using Frontpage
98. Plus, flexible collaboration features such as Tasks lists and remote
and/or local authoring let you work with others to create and manage your Web
site.
Integrate What You Already Have
Seamless integration with existing content and with desktop applications you already
have makes you productive from the start. And strong browser integration makes
it easy to customize and view your Web site's content.
Make a splash on the
Web today! Create and manage professional-quality Web sites quickly and easily
with FrontPage 98.
FrontPage 98 Details:
Create
Great-Looking Web Sites in Frontpage 98
WYSIWYG
tables with Frontpage 98. Draw and erase tables with the same ease that you
use a pencil and paper. Easily insert rows and columns, and then select the borders
of table cells and drag them to the positions you want.
- Draw WYSIWYG tables as easily as you would using
a pencil and paper, making columns, rows, and cells of varying sizes and shapes
to custom fit your content.
- WYSIWYG frames. Create and
modify framesets directly within the Microsoft FrontPage 98 Editor in true
WYSIWYG fashion, then edit the individual frames pages and frameset directly on
screen—all with drag-and-drop ease.
- Wizards: Make
creating new pages or entire Web sites easy with Frontpage 98. Just answer
a few questions, and wizards will do the rest for you.
- Templates.
Generate Web sites or pages from predefined formats in Microsoft
frontpage 98. Simply replace the generated content with your own words,
images, and ideas.
- FrontPage
98 components and Save to E-mail. Eliminate the need to write your
own programs by providing drop-in commands for adding sophisticated, interactive
functionality to your Web sites. Submit form results over the Web to an e-mail
address or file of your choice, or easily add full-text searching capabilities
to your Web sites.
- Navigation bars. Automatically generate
navigation bars on any Web page in the FrontPage
98 Editor.
- Themes and Themes View. Give your
entire site a high-quality, consistent look. Choose from more than 50 professionally
designed thematic templates that include backgrounds, fonts, page headers, and
navigation buttons, or assign a Theme to any individual Web page to vary only
that page's look.
- Graphical bullets. Easily specify custom
images to use in place of the bullets normally found on Web pages. Either apply
a Theme to a page to add its matching graphical buttons, or choose any image to
be used as the new bullet.
- Banner Ad Manager and Dynamic
HTML support. Select from several easy options that handle rotating information
in your Web site, or easily add dynamic Web content such as text that "flies"
onto your page from off-screen. It's easy with Frontpage
98.
- Java applet, Microsoft ActiveX controls,
and browser plug-in support: Include powerful Web functionality in an intuitive
WYSIWYG environment.
- Import Wizard. Easily import existing
files or entire folders of information into your FrontPage
98 Web sites, and now import Web content directly from the World Wide
Web.
- Database Region Wizard and Active Server Pages support.
Leverage Active Server Pages functionality to include dynamic database content
directly in your Web pages, or connect to ODBC-compliant databases to allow users
to perform dynamic database queries to your site over the Web.
- Text over images and hover buttons. Easily add text directly over images, making graphical button creation a snap. Then, effortlessly create cool animation effects on your button-shaped images, so that when a user "hovers" over or clicks on the button, it changes color or shape, or animates the way you have chosen.
Effectively Manage Web Content
and Structure
Navigation View. Automatically generate
your navigational links in this printable view by using it to build your Web site's
key navigational structure—ensuring easy site-wide navigation and intuitive
site organization.
- Select the site view that best fits your
needs. With the convenient Microsoft
FrontPage 98 Views bar, you choose the way to view your Web site's organization
and content. Simply click on the Navigation View icon and then, in the resulting
window, add or edit Web pages and navigational links with ease.
- Folders
View. View a directory level representation of your Web site and a sortable
properties list for each folder or file, making it easy to manage your Web site
content more effectively.
- Hyperlinks View. Graphically
display all hyperlinks between pages, with arrows indicating the direction of
each link. Position your cursor over any icon in the view to call up its related
attributes. This is a very convenient feature for webmasters in Frontpage 98.
- All Files View. Quickly find all assets and organize them
by attribute with this centralized viewing feature.
- Hyperlink
Status View. Check the status of and immediately fix your Web site's internal
and external hyperlinks using this centralized view.
- View your site's entire layout. The Hyperlink View in frontpage
98 provides hierarchical and graphical representations of your site's structure,
including all pages and hyperlinks, so you can see just how easy it is for a user
to discover your content.
- Automatic hyperlink updates.
Let FrontPage 98 automatically
update any hyperlinks when you rename assets or move files to other folders in
your Web site.
- Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) support.
Define complex styles and create dramatic page layout settings with word-processor-like
control over HTML text.
- Remote and collaborative authoring and editing. Allow multiple authors to collaborate on Web sites hosted on remote or local servers.
Seamlessly
Integrate Existing Content and Familiar Applications
- Office integration. Effortlessly manage Office 97 hyperlinks and use
familiar tools such as the spelling checker and thesaurus to ensure accurate,
compelling Web site content with Frontpage
98.
- Browser integration and Preview Tab.
Experience tighter browser integration—drag content from Microsoft Internet
Explorer onto your Web pages and easily preview your pages in any browser you
choose. Also, select the new Microsoft FrontPage 98 Editor Preview Tab
to preview Web pages, including active elements, right on screen in the FrontPage
Editor.
- Image editing tools. Bring Web sites to life
with rich graphics and animated images created using Microsoft Image Composer
and Microsoft GIF Animator.
- Free, cross-platform FrontPage 98 Server Extensions. The power of FrontPage 98 is now available on all popular Web servers running on a variety of operating systems.
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