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Web Page Authoring Tools • Web page authoring tools evolving, working out the rough edges. • You may need more than one tool for different needs. • Basic features – Basic page editing (text formatting, tables, forms, etc. ) – HTML vs. WYSIWYG features – Ability to insert new, unsupported tags/attributes 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 2

Authoring Tools Advanced Features • Link checking • Spell checking • HTML conformity checking • Don’t mess with my HTML! • Style sheet support • Team/Multi-user support • Ability to insert scripting, components, etc. 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 3

Available Authoring Tools • Currently available products – Microsoft Front. Page – Allaire Homesite – Macromedia Dreamweaver – Net. Objects Fusion – Adobe Go Live! – Many others (don’t forget shareware) • Check out ZDNet and other sites for reviews http: //ipw. internet. com/development/html_authoring/index. html 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 4

Microsoft Front. Page • Product history – Originally oriented toward small web site administration. – Microsoft marketing muscle led to significant market share. – Front. Page 98 very successful. – Front. Page 2000 more features and complex. • Front. Page and/or Office used in many settings. 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 5

Product Overview • Three parts to product: Front. Page, Image Composer, Front. Page Server Extensions • Front. Page 98 had FP Explorer and Editor • Front. Page organizes content into Root/Child webs – Childwebs/Subwebs can have distinct permissions – Childwebs/Subwebs group site files into smaller units • Front. Page creates a number of files/folders to support its functions. 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 6

Front. Page Requirements • Front. Page 2000 available either separately or with Office 2000 Premium • Minimum requirements – PC with Pentium 75 MHz or higher processor – MS Windows® 9 X or later operating system, MS Windows NT® Workstation or NT Server version 4. 0 or later with Service Pack 3 or later – RAM: 24 MB RAM for Windows 9 X, 40 MB RAM for Windows NT Workstation or NT Server – 167 MB of available hard-disk space 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 7

Installing Front. Page 2000 • Although technically not required, works best with Internet Explorer 5. • Some installations of FP 2000 may require installation of the "Web Folders" option in IE (not part of default IE install). 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 8

Internet Explorer 5 Install 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 9

Internet Explorer 5 Install 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 10

Front. Page Admin Functions • Integrated development environment • Moving/renaming files • Verify Hyperlinks • Global spell check • Child web management • Global search and replace • Tasks 12/21/2021 © 1999, Valtara Digital Design 11