Web designing is not just confined to seasoned web masters anymore. With so many people wanting to host their own web sites for personal use, not everyone can or wishes to afford a paid service of a professional web designer. There are a number of tools available online that not only help you in writing your own HTML pages ;such as WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) web authoring tools but also help you test your site or pages for any errors or for the look and feel in browsers. Microsoft Front page is a popular product from the Microsoft stable, it's USP is easy integration with other Microsoft applications. The look and feel is very similar to Microsoft Office applications thus making the learning curve quite flat. The latest version available is FrontPage 2003 and has a number of built in options to help you create simple as well as complex websites. Some new features in FrontPage 2003 are: a) Accessibility Checking: (Select guidelines to follow and receive suggestions) b) Improved E-Commerce functionality. c) Browser and resolution reconciliation: Preview your site in a combination of browsers and resolutions including simultaneous previewing in multiple browsers. d) Built in FTP support. e) Customized Data views by applying pre-built Data view or manually formating data enable you to quickly change the overall look of data. f) Design time layers make it easy to work with multiple pieces of content. g) Dynamic Web Templates. h) Image Tracing. i) Split view: Helps in creating and updating sites quickly by showing both the Code view and the design view at the same time. j) Jscript authoring without writing any code is possible by selecting desired functionality. k) Macromedia flash content can be added to the web site by dragging it into the work area. l) XML Support: Support for creating and modifying XSLTs for viewing XML data.
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