Archives
 
 
 
  Special
 
 
 
  About Us
 
 
 

Newsletter
Free E-mail Newsletter from BYTE.com

 
    
           
Visit the home page Browse the four-year online archive Download platform-neutral CPU/FPU benchmarks Find information for advertisers, authors, vendors, subscribers Request free information on products written about or advertised in BYTE Submit a press release, or scan recent announcements Talk with BYTE's staff and readers about products and technologies

ArticlesFrontpage 98 Adds Refinement to Web Publishing


October 1997 / What's New / Frontpage 98 Adds Refinement to Web Publishing
Pete Loshin

Microsoft's FrontPage 98 improves on a product that's already hugely popular with hobbyists, novices, and professional Webmasters alike. FrontPage 98 adds support for more of the latest Web features, including Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Dynamic HTML (DHTML), and it makes publishing your content easy with Microsoft's channel definition format (CDF).

The package can also be used to create top-notch interactive and animated Web pages for publication on any Web server, although you lose s ome functionality on servers that don't support FrontPage extensions.

Microsoft improves site design by including over 50 different schemes, with looks ranging from funky retro-fifties to but ton-down corporate. Each scheme can be modified to mute or blast colors or to use hefty animated graphics or lightweight but stationary images for quicker downloads. Background schemes are easily customizable. FrontPage simplifies the task of building Web forms and lets you e-mail yourself any data collected on-line or store it locally in either ASCII tab-delimited or HTML format.

The pain of table building is eased as FrontPage makes the task totally graphical, replacing hit-or-miss manual entry scripting of table, row, and cell dimensions with a pencil tool for graphical table creation. You can now edit a Web page locally, without the server running, which lessens dependence on a local Web server during production. In all, FrontPage 98 is a more functional update to a product that's already nearly an industry standard.


Where to Find


FrontPage 98...............................$149
 
($40 rebate for registered Office
 users; upgrade
 from FrontPage 1.1
 or higher, $54.95)
Microsoft Corp.
Redmond, WA
Phone:    800-426-9400
Phone:    206-882-8080
Fax:      206-936-7329
Internet: 
http://www.microsoft.com

Enter 1063 on Inquiry Card.
Information on 
this product


HotBYTEs
 - information on products covered or advertised in BYTE


Where the Pros Are, FrontPage Waits for You

screen_link (35 Kbytes)


Up to the What's New section contentsGo to previous article: Go to next article: Automate Your Computer LabSearchSend a comment on this articleSubscribe to BYTE or BYTE on CD-ROM  
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

more...

BYTE Digest

BYTE Digest editors every month analyze and evaluate the best articles from Information Week, EE Times, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Network Computing, Sys Admin, and dozens of other CMP publications—bringing you critical news and information about wireless communication, computer security, software development, embedded systems, and more!

Find out more

BYTE.com Store

BYTE CD-ROM
NOW, on one CD-ROM, you can instantly access more than 8 years of BYTE.
 
The Best of BYTE Volume 1: Programming Languages
The Best of BYTE
Volume 1: Programming Languages
In this issue of Best of BYTE, we bring together some of the leading programming language designers and implementors...

Copyright © 2005 CMP Media LLC, Privacy Policy, Your California Privacy rights, Terms of Service
Site comments: webmaster@byte.com
SDMG Web Sites: BYTE.com, C/C++ Users Journal, Dr. Dobb's Journal, MSDN Magazine, New Architect, SD Expo, SD Magazine, Sys Admin, The Perl Journal, UnixReview.com, Windows Developer Network