Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Professional

FrontPage 2003 provides the features, flexibility, and functionality to help you build better Web sites. It includes the professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools needed to create dynamic and sophisticated Web sites.
FrontPage 2003 advances your Web development in three key areas.

• Designing: Use enhanced design tools to produce better looking Web sites. New layout and graphics tools make it easier to design exactly the site you want.

• Coding: Use design tools to generate better code, or expand your code skills. Use built-in scripting tools for interactive results. And with professional coding tools, you can write code faster, more efficiently, and with greater accuracy.

• Extending: Connect with people and information in new ways by building Extensible Markup Language (XML) data-driven Web sites using the first commercially available, completely WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) editor. The enhanced publishing features and options help you get your Web pages online more quickly. (Note: XML collaboration requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003)

• Pages can be created with new Layout Table feature, which positions text and graphics in a table-like framework. Page mockups can be manually 'traced' by positioning elements over a semi-transparent layer behind the editing screen.The code editor has been beefed up with a strong suite of HTML coding tools, including context-sensitive 'autocomplete' tags, Quick Tag Selector, Quick Tag Editor, advanced Search and Replace, code snippets and even a code optimiser.Traditionally, Microsoft bolted on extra website functionality through proprietary server 'extensions', but FrontPage 2003 reflects Microsoft's welcome drift towards mainstream web standards by embracing JavaScript like a long lost friend.

• Many advanced features - like Web logs, issue tracking lists and data-driven news pages - require Microsoft's SharePoint services, but even without these useful extras, FrontPage remains a more than capable editor for those not requiring the hands-on power of Dreamweaver. And it's a lot cheaper too.

• A new Button Builder adds mouse-over actions to navigation bars. Complex page layouts are built with the new Layout Table feature, which positions text and graphics in a table-like framework visible in the editing screen but not in a browser. Sites being built by a collaborative group can use layout templates in which all but specified regions are uneditable, like locked cells in a spreadsheet. A Tracing Image feature lets you take a mockup image of your site and view it as a semi-transparent layer behind the editing screen, allowing you to position page elements manually to match their locations on the mockup. Sitewide visual themes are now based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), not HTML, for more compact and easy-to-maintain code.

• Sleek new features make the highly automated, business-oriented FrontPage 2003 worth the upgrade. A more efficient interface eliminates the vertical Views bar and replaces it with a tabbed interface on the editing

Design better-looking sites: FrontPage 2003 includes tools and layout and graphics features to help you work faster and design professional Web sites.

• Work with graphics from other applications, giving you more control over how images are displayed and saved.

• Use dynamic Web templates to modify entire sections of a Web site. By updating the master template, changes are automatically made to all pages linked to that template.

• 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.

• Create and manipulate tables used for layout purposes, and provide pixel-precise control of your layout.

• 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