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FrontPage 98 Product
Overview* Easily create
great-looking Web sites.
Easy-to-use, leading edge features let you create professional Web sites
without programming.
Manage your Web
sites your way.
Comprehensive management tools let you quickly build and maintain well-organized Web
sites.
Integrate what
you already have.
Seamless integration with existing content and with desktop applications you already have
makes you productive from the start.
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* FrontPage 98 Software must be purchased separately

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| Easily
create great-looking Web sites. |
Easy-to-use, leading edge features let you create
professional Web sites without programming. Create WYSIWYG frames pages and draw HTML
tables in the WYSIWYG FrontPage Editor. Add sophisticated, interactive functionality using
FrontPage components-there's no need to write code.
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, easily include powerful Web
functionality in your sites by adding Java applets, ActiveX controls, and
browser plug-ins. Support for databases and Active Server Pages allows you to include
database content in your Web pages easily and lets users perform dynamic database queries
on your site over the Web, giving them direct access to the information they need.
WYSIWYG tables: 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.
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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.
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Build eye-catching
pages using WYSIWYG frames editing. Create and modify frames and framesets in the
FrontPage Editor, plus view and edit Web pages within any frameall with
drag-and-drop ease.
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Wizards: Make creating new
pages or entire Web sites easy. Just answer a few questions, and wizards will do the rest
for you.
Templates: Generate Web
sites or pages from predefined formats. Simply replace the generated content with your own
words, images, and ideas.
FrontPage 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 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.
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Give your
entire site a consistent look with more than 50 professionally designed thematic
templates, including backgrounds, fonts, page headers, and navigation buttons.
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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!
Java applet, ActiveX
controls, and browser plug-in support: Include powerful Web functionality in
an intuitive WYSIWYG environment.
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Include powerful Web technologies. Easily customize your Web
pages with your own HTML tags, ActiveX controls, Java applets, JavaScript, browser
plug-ins, and Microsoft Visual Basic®, Scripting Edition.
Import Wizard: Easily
import existing files or entire folders of information into your FrontPage 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 OBDC-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 choosen.
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| Effectively
manage Web content and site structure. |
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. 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.
Navigation View: Automatically
generate your navigational links in this printable view by using it to build your Web
site's key navigational structureensuring easy site-wide navigation and intuitive
site organization.
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Select the site view that best
fits your needs. With the convenient FrontPage 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.
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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.
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.
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View your site's entire
layout. The Hyperlink View 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.
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Automatic hyperlink updates:
Let FrontPage 98 automatically update any hyperlinks when you rename assets or drag and
drop 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.
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| Seamlessly
integrate existing content and familiar applications. |
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.
Office integration:
Effortlessly manage Microsoft Office 97 hyperlinks and use familiar tools such as the
spelling checker and thesaurus to ensure accurate, compelling Web site content.
Browser integration and Preview Tab:
Experience tighter browser integrationdrag and drop content from Microsoft
Internet Explorer onto your Web pages and easily preview your pages in any browser you
choose. Also, select the new FrontPage Editor Preview Tab to preview Web pages, including
active elments, 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 is now available on all popular Web
servers running on a variety of operating systems.
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