Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools to create sophisticated Web sites
• New layout and graphics tools make it easier to design exactly the site you want
• Design tools to generate better code, or expand your code skills
• With professional coding tools, write code faster, more efficiently, and with greater accuracy
• Enhanced publishing features and options help get your Web pages online more quickly

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000AZJV9
• Item model number: 392-02323
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,182 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #12 in Software > Web Development > Web Page Editors > WYSIWYG

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

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)

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.

Generate code faster and easier: The design tools in Frontpage 2003 generate efficient and clean Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and give you more control over the code. Or, you can apply your coding knowledge by taking advantage of the professional coding tools. With the scripting tools you can create an interactive experience for your audience. And, because the coding tools are easy to work with, you can even use them to start learning HTML.

Coding Tools

• Use a split view to see modifications made in the Design View automatically updated in the Code View.
• Select, modify, and manipulate tags easily using the Quick Tag Selector and Quick Tag Editor.
• Simplify code writing and make it less prone to errors with Microsoft IntelliSense technology. The technology is available for HTML, cascading style sheets, XSLT, Microsoft JScript, and Microsoft ASP.NET.
• Remove extraneous code generated by Microsoft Word or other Web authoring programs.

Scripting Tools

• Enhance interactivity on your site without writing a line of code by using behaviors to author JScript.
• Take advantage of support for IntelliSense and scripting tools for authoring JScript and Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript).

Extend the Power and Reach of Your Web Site: With Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Windows Server 2003 connected to FrontPage 2003, you can modify and present live data from a range of sources, including XML, to build rich interactive data-driven Web sites in a WYSIWYG editor. Users can post to the Web using just their browsers, while choosing from a broad range of publishing options.

Data-driven Web Sites Enabled by Windows SharePoint Services

• Allow users to post to your Web site using just their browsers. Web logs, issue-tracking lists, and news and reviews sites can be built with just a couple of clicks.
• Insert data views and configure data sources—including XML varieties, Windows SharePoint Services data, Web services, and OLE Database (OLEDB) data sources.
• Handle XML data and authoring and XSLT formatting directly in the FrontPage WYSIWYG Design view to create XML data-driven Web sites.
• Show or hide items or reformats based on data values or position in the data view by using Dynamic conditional formatting.
• Build Web Parts Pages by creating Web Parts Zones and inserting and connecting to Web Parts in other products, including Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server "v2.0" Beta 2, Windows SharePoint Services, and FrontPage 2003.

Publishing Technologies

• Move files easily between local and remote locations and publish in both directions.
• Connect to remote sites easily with the Web import dialog that simplifies connection types and working with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
• Publish to File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers from the new Remote Web Site tab.

Upgrade Eligibility

Determine whether your current version of Microsoft FrontPage qualifies you for the upgrade. The following products qualify:

• Microsoft FrontPage: FrontPage version 2002, FrontPage 2000, FrontPage 98, FrontPage 97
• Microsoft Office XP: Office XP Developer, Office XP Professional with FrontPage, Office XP Professional Special Edition
• Microsoft Office 2000: Office 2000 Developer, Office 2000 Premium

Product Description

FrontPage 2003 includes the professional design, authoring, data and publishing tools you need to create dynamic and sophisticated sites. Build data-driven Web sites, enables by Windows SharePoint services Move files easily between local and remote locations, and publish in both directions Upgrade version -- requires previous full version installation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Upgrade, October 2, 2003

By 

Robert D. Shull "shullrd" (Fairfield, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 sports a new "Windows XP"-like interface. The major changes to this version, however, occur under the hood.

FrontPage 2003 creates cleaner code than any previous version. FrontPage also supports web development technologies such as ASP.NET. FrontPage 2003 is able to create more complex web solutions easier than any previous version.

One major drawback to FrontPage is its lack of support for PHP. As PHP becomes more common it is surprising that Microsoft still does not support it natively in FrontPage 2003.

FrontPage's more robust code and intuitive interface make it an excellent upgrade.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What FrontPage should have been all along, February 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Microsoft finally got this version of FrontPage right. I have uses FP since 97/98 and started using Dreamweaver because of the limitations and "clunkyness" of the old versions. This version however seems to get it right, and I have no problems recommending this to either amature or experienced webmasters.

51 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I prefer this to Dreamweaver, March 13, 2004

By 

Woodchips (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've found this newest version of Front Page to be the best Microsoft has ever delivered. It's intuitive, easy to use, has clean HTML and an affordable price. I bought Dreamweaver MX after reading all the reviews about how wonderful it was. It has an easy way of creating rollovers but that's about it as far as I'm concerned. I think FP wins hands down and would certainly recommend it..