Microsoft FrontPage 2003 [OLD VERSION]

Microsoft's FrontPage 2003 combines a slick and easy-to-use page designer with tools and wizards for creating, managing and uploading websites. It is part of the Office family and the look and feel will be familiar to those who have worked with Microsoft Word. You can create a website with a blank page, or use pre-designed templates and themes for common page designs or entire websites. FrontPage 2003 also has wizards for interactive and dynamic features including live links to databases, discussion forums, search forms, hit counters and navigation bars. Some features require a Windows web server, while others depend on FrontPage web server extensions, so it is important to check what is available from your particular Internet service provider before depending on a FrontPage feature. Non-Microsoft server technologies such as PHP or Java Server Pages are not supported by FrontPage tools, so using these is a matter of hand-coding or else selecting an alternative editor such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver.

FrontPage 2003 is a substantial improvement on earlier versions. The editor is well behaved, preserving hand-coded script or HTML code and a new split-view makes it easy to work with both the visual design and the underlying text. Strong new features include table-based layout tools, the ability to create a page design by tracing an image, nested or overlapping layers, better use of Cascading Stylesheets and templates that let you lock some content while making other parts of the page editable by other team members. Coding is enhanced by a quick tag editor and Intellisense statement completion. Flash movies are fully supported and there are tools for the easy display of XML data. There is also special integration with SharePoint services running on Windows 2003 Server, making FrontPage 2003 the natural choice for creating SharePoint intranets. FrontPage 2003 is a feature-rich product which enables good results without requiring knowledge of HTML, while also providing strong support for those who prefer to work with the underlying code. --Tim Anderson

Web package template
Set up Web Logs and issue tracking lists and classroom sites with just a couple of clicks with pre-built Web package templates.Insert data views and configure data sources—including XML varieties, Windows SharePoint Services data, Web services, and OLE Database (OLEDB) data sources.
Dynamic Web templates
Added support for richer Web site templates enables you to create multiple templates, each containing multiple content regions, and apply these to pages in your Web site. Target specific browser or screen resolutions by using browser and resolution reconciliation. You can also see how your site will look in various combinations of browsers and resolutions.
Layout detection
Automatically identify layout tables with the Enable Layout tool, and have complete control over layer creation, placement, and visibility. Use manipulation tools to more easily work with multiple images and pieces of content that sit in the same space, and to create visual effects, such as pop-up menus.
Split view
The new Split view helps you create and update sites more quickly by showing both the Code view and the Design view at the same time. Modifications made in the Design view automatically update in the Code view. Select, modify, and manipulate tags easily using the Quick Tag Selector and Quick Tag Editor.
Modify text files
Modify text files, such as JavaScript, XML files, or Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) directly within the FrontPage editor using , taking advantage of all the new code editing features without having to switch to a different editor.
IntelliSense for authoring Microsoft JScript and Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition (VBScript)
The Code view provides IntelliSense technology to reduce errors in code writing. IntelliSense includes statement completion and shows the parameters available for the code you're writing, like Visual Studio does. The technology is available for HTML, cascading style sheets, XSLT, Microsoft JScript, and Microsoft ASP.NET.
Use behaviors to author JScript
Author JScript without writing a single line of code. Just select your desired functionality, and Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 takes care of the rest.
ASP.NET controls
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 supports the preview of ASP.NET controls, enabling you to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Preview, reposition, and resize these ASP.NET controls, and use Microsoft IntelliSense support for scripting to ASP.NET intrinsic controls so you can easily hook up, tailor, or even instantiate new controls.
Quick Tag Selector
See the HTML tree structure below the insertion point in the user interface, and select or manipulate items in the Design view. The Quick Tag Selector lets you select the exact element you need.
Smart find and replace
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 provides basic find and replace functionality, as well as a rules engine for doing HTML searches. You can quickly search on and replace attributes or tags across your entire site, or on specific pages.
Data view Web Part
Authoring the Data view is done on live data directly in the Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Design view through the Data view Web Part. When you insert a Data view, you are actually inserting a Data view Web Part into your page.
Export and import Web packages
Export and import collections of Web pages and content from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web sites. FrontPage 2003 makes sure that all dependent files are included when you import or export.
XML support
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 enables you to create and modify XSLTs for viewing XML data. It supports Microsoft Word or XML files and URLs that return XML, and it has all the tools necessary to handle and format XML data sources.
Accessibility checking
Select guidelines (including United States government section 508 guidelines) to follow and receive suggestions.
Browser and resolution reconciliation
Target specific browser or resolutions, or see how your site looks in various combinations of browsers and resolutions—including simultaneous previewing of multiple browsers.
Quick Tag Editor
The Code view provides IntelliSense technology to reduce errors in code writing. IntelliSense includes statement completion and shows the parameters available for the code you're writing, like Visual Studio does.
Add Macromedia Flash content
Include Macromedia Flash content in your Web site by just dragging it into your work area. Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 provides a dialog box so you can set properties on a Flash movie by double-clicking it.
Modify your pages in a WYSIWYG environment
Build your site by dragging images using a WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") editor—just as you can with publishing software.