Hosting FrontPage

Microsoft FrontPage and the Advantages of “WYSIWYG’ Editors

Front page, an advanced Web management and authoring tool, features an integrated set of tools that are designed to help you in creating, implementing, and managing Web sites.

FrontPage provides with the necessary tools to build complete Web sites. Tools include design, authoring, data, and publishing tools needed to create dynamic and sometimes sophisticated Web sites.

FrontPage 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.
- • 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. 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.
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.

Front page has two major components :

The FrontPage editor
Utilizes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to create a ‘WYSIWYG’ (what you see is what you get) environment for the designer. So when you create and edit files in FrontPage, your work appears in the display window exactly the same way it would on a web page. The html code that builds the pages are generated automatically by FrontPage editor. FrontPage also provides the user with an html editor where users can edit the HTML code directly through a separate window view.
FrontPage Explorer :
Which Provides a mean for users to immediately test their site . FrontPage explorer enables users track links, pages, and other page component from within FrontPage.

web BOTS
FrontPage also provides a set of Web robots, commonly referred to as Web bots, which are specialized CGI scripts that provide implementation for counters, forms, discussion groups, full text searches, form handlers and link bars (to name a few things) without having to do any server-side programming. All these features are available from the drop-down menus or icons to insert the application on your Web page and FrontPage takes care of the rest. FrontPage Hosting thru HOSTITWISE WILL INSTALL FrontPage extensions for you. So all , the applications you have created with FrontPage will work.

What is FrontPage Hosting and Why Do You Need a FrontPage Host?

Once your FrontPage-built Web site is complete, Hostitwise hosting planes are ready for you to host it. This way your site will be capable of running features and applications that are unique to FrontPage-built sites. your server is FrontPage-enabled. Enabling FrontPage simply means that FrontPage extensions is installed on your Web servers - it is the basis of FrontPage hosting. Hostitwise have all these features installed and enabled so you can run all FrontPage features used in your site.

FrontPage Hosting: What are FrontPage Extensions and How Do They Work?

FrontPage server extensions are a set of server-side applications that:

Let several people collaborate simultaneously on the same Web site and Web Server (multi-user authoring).
Let users write directly to the Web server using a PC or laptop computer from anywhere in the world via the Internet (remote authoring).
Let users include forms on their Web site and specify how the results of those forms are handled.
Let users include discussion Webs on their Web site.
Provide full text search capability on a Web site.
Let users include hit counters on their Web site.

This "pre-packaged" functionality lets users incorporate these advanced features without having to write the complex server-side programs typically required.

So hostitwise do their best to insure the fully functional FrontPage Hosting, and the FrontPage server extensions for each corresponding feature are installed on our Web servers.

Why FrontPage Hosting?

Using a Web page editor like FrontPage is convenient and saves your time. It is an ideal solution for website owners who don’t have the time or resources to learn or hire advanced technical expertise yet still want to build feature-rich web sites.

No need to write the complex server-side programs required to run more advanced applications.

FrontPage hosting help you down your costs. FrontPage comes included with the Microsoft Office XP software package, so you won’t have to spend the additional money to buy a separate ‘WYSIWYG’ editor.

What features can be run with FrontPage Extensions?

Custom link bars
Shared border background properties
Hit counters
Search forms
Form handlers (Creating FrontPage Form )
Discussion groups
Front-Page created server-side image maps
Database results wizard
StyleSheet links to multiple files or ASP files
Usage analysis reports
Database interface wizard

Can I create a Web site in FrontPage and host it on a server without FrontPage extensions?

Yes, this is certainly possible. However, your site will not be able to run extension-dependent features. If you chose to do this, you can automatically disable features that require server-side processing that are enabled by server extensions.

What Web servers do the FrontPage server extensions support?
FrontPage Server Extensions support all popular UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT®-based Web servers.

Creating FrontPage Form