What's New
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| Photo Gallery |
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Quickly and easily create a Photo Gallery to display
personal or business photos or images. Select from several professional-looking layouts.
Add captions and descriptions, reorder images, change image sizes, and switch layouts when
you want.
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| PowerPoint-Like Drawing Tools |
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Use enhanced drawing tools like AutoShapes, drop shadows,
Word Art, and callouts for attention-getting effects on your pages that are as easy to use
in FrontPage as they are in Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint.
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| SharePoint™ Team Services |
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SharePoint Team Services allows you to quickly set up a team
web site for intranet or Internet users to store, find, and share information, documents,
& web pages. Use FrontPage to customize the site.
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| Usage Analysis Reports |
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Usage Analysis Reports help you find out what pages are
getting the most hits in daily, weekly, or monthly reports, and how visitors find your
site. You can save reports in HTML or Excel for later analysis.
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| Top 10 Lists |
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Quickly insert Top 10 Lists that link to the Top10 pages on
your site, by number of visited pages, referring domains, referring URLs, search strings,
visiting users, and more. These lists are automatically refreshed when the user comes to
the page.
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| bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in for FrontPage |
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Easily sell products on your web site with the bCentral
Commerce Manager service. FrontPage helps step you through creating products pages,
categories pages, and a list of all of the categories of products you offer.
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| Automatic Web Content |
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Insert MSNBC headlines & weather forecasts, MSN search,
Expedia maps, and bCentral small business tools directly into pages. Allows you to have
continuously updated content without having to continually update your site.
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| Link Bars |
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Build Custom Link Bars to link to pages on or off your site,
e-mail addresses, or network or hard drive shares. Link Bars are a great way to create
buttons on the fly.
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| Database Interface Wizard |
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Generates the forms and pages you need to display the
contents of a database on a page. Allow specific users to edit or delete records through a
web page, while allowing everyone who can browse to your site to add new records and view
existing ones.
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| Discussions and Subscriptions |
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Use discussions & subscriptions with SharePoint Team
Services to post and reply to comments on pages on any web page on the Internet, and to
receive an e-mail notification when discussions have changed or when pages on your site
have changed.
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| Document Libraries |
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Use SharePoint Team Services Document Libraries technology
to store documents in one location for everyone, or for specific people to access. You can
specify a template for each document library, or users can upload existing documents with
their browser.
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| Discussion Boards |
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Use SharePoint Team Services technology to insert
newsgroup-style threaded discussions. You decide who can see the discussions and who can
contribute to them.
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| Dynamic Online Surveys |
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Use SharePoint Team Services technology to insert dynamic
online Surveys, complete with easy-to-add radio buttons, dropdown menus, and check boxes.
Visitors can respond to surveys from their browsers, and can choose to see results in
automatic graphs.
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| Paste Options smart tag |
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Preserve the formatting from the document you copied (“Keep
Source Formatting”) or let the page’s Theme or style change the formatting (“Use
Destination Styles”), or strip out all of the formatting and just paste in the text (“Keep
Text Only”).
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| Table and Table Formatting Improvements |
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Table AutoFormat helps you create professional looking
tables. Table Fill allows you to repeat the contents of an individual cell to the right of
a cell or below it. Table Split allows you to divide a table at any location quickly and
easily.
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| Border Dropdown Tool Button |
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Use the Border Dropdown Tool Button to quickly add borders
of any color or background color to text or graphics. Makes adding borders in FrontPage as
easy as it is in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, without having put the text or
graphics into tables.
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| Office Clipboard |
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Office Clipboard helps you copy or cut content from Office
applications and quickly paste them into web pages you’re creating with FrontPage.
You can visually see representations of the content on the clipboard in the Task Pane.
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| Speech Recognition |
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Use advanced Speech Recognition technology to automate
common tasks by telling FrontPage what you want it to do. You can use a microphone to
navigate menus using speech and voice commands.
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| Hand Writing Recognition |
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Use advanced Hand Writing Recognition technology to have
FrontPage execute common tasks through interpreting written commands. You can even use it
with a tablet to recognize your handwriting and turn it into text.
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| Unicode Support |
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Unicode Support allows authors to create web pages in all of
the languages installed on their computer’s Windows operating system. This includes
support for bi-directional character set and Unicode.
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Standard Features
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| HTML Editing and Site Management |
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FrontPage gives you the tools to create, control, and grow
your site. HTML editing and site management tools are together in one easy-to-use
application.
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| Looks and Works Like Microsoft Office |
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Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 share common Themes, Task
Pane, clipboard, toolbars, menus, shortcuts, and tools like the Format Painter, HTML Help,
and background spell checking. Even shares the same installer technology as Office so
companies can easily roll out FrontPage with Office XP.
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| Author in Your Favorite Environment |
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Author in Normal (WYSIWYG) mode, or use Reveal Tags to see
your tags while still in Normal view. Or author in HTML view, which provides a text
editor-like environment and allows users to insert code by hand or use familiar FrontPage
menus and buttons.
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| HTML, XML, and ASP Source Code Preservation |
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Edit existing HTML and scripts (including ASP) worry-free in
FrontPage. Bring HTML created in other tools into FrontPage, and it will not modify the
code. Tag and comment order, capitalization, and even white space are preserved.
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| Built-in Graphics Editing Tools |
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FrontPage includes comprehensive site management reports
that help you find and fix potential problems like slow pages, unlinked pages or graphics,
or old pages.
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| Color Tools |
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Choose Web-safe colors to apply to graphics and text, or
choose custom colors from a color picker. Create custom Themes using pre-set Web-safe
Color Schemes, or select a custom color scheme from the color wheel.
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| Nested Subwebs |
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Set rights to the Web as a whole and also set specific
rights to subgroups so they can be in total control of their sub-sites.
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| Check-in/Check-out |
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Keep others from editing a page while you're working on it
by using Check-in/Check-out.
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| Personalized HTML Formatting |
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You decide how you want your code indented, what colors you
want your tags, when to capitalize, and when to use optional tags. FrontPage automatically
applies these preferences to new code.
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| Target Specific Browsers, Features, and Servers |
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Pre-select which environments to target (browser, server,
FrontPage Server Extensions, ASP, DHTML, CSS, script), and FrontPage automatically
restricts features that will not work on the targeted systems.
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| Create Webs Anywhere |
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You don't need to have access to a Web server in order to
create Web content. You can create a complete Web site right on your hard drive or network
drive, then publish to a server when you're ready.
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| Built-in FTP Support |
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Improved user interface makes the option of using the
Built-in FTP Support for publishing to servers that don’t run FrontPage Server
Extensions easier than ever with intuitive visual prompts.
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| Microsoft Script Editor |
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Web professionals who create ASP or other script code can
use the integrated and updated Microsoft Script Editor to debug and test their code.
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| Extensibility |
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Software developers can build add-ons for FrontPage for a
variety of applications, including e-commerce and graphics editing.
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Improved Features
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| Easier Access to the Tools You Need |
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The Task Pane helps you find what you need fast. Page tabs
help you switch from page to page without cluttering your desktop. And the new integrated
Folder List and Navigation Pane help you change navigational elements while you continue
to edit.
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| Publishing Improvements |
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Right-click on any pages and send them directly to your web
server or exclude certain pages from being published. See both the source and the
destination web servers and click and drag files between them.
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| Professional Web Development Support |
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Control exactly how your code looks and works with Apply XML
Formatting Rules, Paste Options smart tag, HTML & ASP Source Code Preservation, and
optional HTML Source Formatting.
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| Enhanced Reporting |
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Monitor your site’s performance by quickly finding slow
or unlinked files or pages and broken hyperlinks. New with FrontPage version 2002, you can
auto filter the reports and save the data to HTML or to Microsoft Excel.
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| Improved Shared Borders |
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Improved Shared Borders allow you to apply background colors
or background images to shared borders, which are like headers and footers and left and
right shared areas on your pages.
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| Inline Frames via HTML 4-based support |
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Enables advanced technology like HTML 4, including Inline
Frames, language attributes, and button and fieldsets in forms. With a few clicks and a
URL address, Inline Frames allows you to insert content from any web site you choose.
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| New and Improved Themes |
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FrontPage comes with 67 customizable Themes. Each updated
Theme includes coordinated bullets, buttons, backgrounds, banners, horizontal line, and
font styles. You can apply Themes to Microsoft Word documents and SharePoint Team
Services-based web sites.
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| CSS Formatting Improvements |
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Optional Hyperlink or CSS Formatting gives you the ability
to format hyperlinks and other CSS-formatted text the way you choose. If you don’t
want a hyperlink to have an underline, just highlight the hyperlink and click the
Underline button.
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| Web Components |
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FrontPage Web Components make inserting sophisticated
technology into your site fast and easy. New are Photo Gallery, Link Bars, Top 10 Lists,
List Views from OWS, Save to Database, and Automatic Web Content like headlines, stock
ticker, and maps.
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| Finer-Grained Permissions |
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New Finer-Grained Permissions allow you to grant or deny
access to users and groups through a “role-based” security model. New in
FrontPage version 2002, there are more roles to give you even more control over who
accesses the content on your site.
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| Easy-to-use Forms |
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Quickly create a form to collect customer information from
your site. Send form data to a text file, an e-mail address, or an Access database that’s
created automatically. New are form field options including File Upload, Group Box and
Advanced Buttons.
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| Integrated Third Party E-commerce Solutions |
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There are many third party e-commerce applications that
integrate into FrontPage to allow people to sell services and merchandise from their Web
sites. Many of these applications are being updated and enhanced for FrontPage version
2002.
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| 26 Languages and International Support |
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FrontPage is available in 26 languages, which is 11 more
languages than with FrontPage 2000, so that users all over the world can see the FrontPage
interface in their language of choice.
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