FrontPage 2003 from Microsoft is one of the best Web Publishing Tools on the
market today. This sophisticated Web Authoring Application provides an intuitive user
interface that has a similar look and feel to other Microsoft Office
products. Although this web publishing tool is suitable for new web designers, it
also provides advanced features that only professional web publishers would
want to use. Because it is so simple to switch between the WYSIWYG
(What You See Is What You Get) user interface and the "HTML Code" interface, one can
easily view the HTML Code as pages are created.
FrontPage also provides functionality to insert user-defined code into a
page. This code is protected when changes are subsequently made using
the WYSIWYG user interface.
FrontPage 2003 has numerous features that enable software objects to be
reused, thereby saving much development and maintenance effort. These
features
include support for shared borders, website "themes", "included" pages and system
generated navigation bars and titles.
The website generation capabilities of this popular Web Authoring tool are
excellent. FrontPage remembers which objects need to be published to
the web. Alternatively, users can specify objects that are to publish or can
request that the entire website be re-published.
FrontPage 2003 also provides XML capabilities that allow websites to
interact with other websites over the Internet. In addition to
integrating with MS Access to provide data-driven functionality, FrontPage
2003 websites can also interface with SQL Server and XML databases and other
databases using ODBC.
