What is FrontPage Extensions ?
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One of the most handy tools a web developer has are html tools like Microsoft FrontPage. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a primitive form of computer code that makes a web browser display text and images. It is difficult to write web pages in this language and create them to look artistic and interesting. Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. It isn't perfect, but it is the best we have used for creating web pages. Server extensions are programs installed on the web server that allows you to "publish" to the server. If you are interested in using FrontPage, we can train you to make your own modifications to your pages. The editor looks much like a word processor. When you click on "save" you are really transmitting or "publishing" the web page to the remote server via the Internet. It basically makes the web server many miles away act like a disk drive connected to your local computer. The alternative to a tool like FrontPage is to use a text editor to create the HTML. The code references images. All of the elements (HTML code and images) needs to be separately transmitted to the web server. This is a time consuming process and adds little to the message conveyed by the web site. If you don't like FrontPage, that's OK too. You can use your favorite editor and then transmit your pages to the system using FTP |
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