FrontPage 2003 is the Web site
creation and management application with the tools, power, and features to
deliver better results. FrontPage 2003 empowers users with advances in three
key areas:
Designing: Create better-looking Web sites with the
FrontPage 2003 layout and graphic design tools
Coding: Generate better code more quickly with
powerful scripting and editing features that push your programming to
new heights
Extending: Extend the power and reach of your Web
site with rich interactive Webs connected to live data from a variety of
sources, and a range of publishing options.
Web sites created with FrontPage can be
published to any server—including Microsoft Windows® 2000, Microsoft
Windows NT®, and UNIX—even if it doesn't support FrontPage Server
Extensions. FrontPage 2003 also provides support for publishing to both
FTP or WebDAV servers. The optimal combination for FrontPage customers is
to use FrontPage 2003 in combination with Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Services on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This allows customers to access
the entire set of new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with better
ways to do things they were used to doing in FrontPage 2002.
Microsoft has continued to make investments in
FrontPage 2003 to enhance the overall customer experience, based on
customer feedback and the changing role of server extensions in our
overall product offerings. As we examined our options, it became clear
that the best solution was to create a new and radically more powerful
server story -- Windows SharePoint Services from Microsoft, and eliminate
the need for server extensions, beginning with FrontPage 2003. Today, the
optimal combination for FrontPage customers is to use FrontPage 2003 in
combination with Windows SharePoint Services. This allows customers to
access the entire set of new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with
better ways to do things they were used to doing in FrontPage 2002 and
previous versions. For more information on the implications of these
changes, please refer to the FrontPage Server Extension information at: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/frontpage/default.aspp.
While we are eliminating investment in the
development of future server extension versions, we will continue to
support existing server extensions on the Windows and Unix/Apache server
platforms. We will also update the server extensions in Windows Server
2003 to support IIS 6.0, but will not add any additional Web site
authoring functionality.
Windows SharePoint Services is the engine for
creating web sites that enable information sharing and document
collaboration, increasing individual and team productivity. It is a key
piece of the Information Worker Infrastructure delivered in Windows Server
2003 and provides additional team services and sites to Office and other
desktop applications, as well as serving as a platform for application
development. SharePoint sites take file storage to a new level, from
saving files to sharing information. They provide communities for team
collaboration, empowering users to collaborate on documents, tasks,
contacts, events, and other information. These sites also enable team and
site managers to easily manage site content and activity. In addition, the
environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment, administration,
application development.
All of the data-driven Web site features
require Windows SharePoint Services, such as Data-driven Web sites, XML
Support, the Data Source Catalog, Web Package Templates, Web Parts, etc.
XML is a condensed form of Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that enables developers to create
customized tags that offer flexibility in organizing and presenting
information and makes it easier to transition content from internal
systems onto the Web using FrontPage. FrontPage lets you define how XML
documents that follow any customer-defined schema will be formatted on a
Web page by authoring XSLTs (eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations) directly within the FrontPage editor.
Enabled by Windows SharePoint Services,
FrontPage 2003 easily allows you to edit and present live-data from
sources such as Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services data, XML, Web
Services or OLEDB data sources to create sophisticated data-driven Web
sites that both lower your maintenance costs and allow your users to post
to the Web using just the browser. FrontPage also supports a complete set
of WYSIWYG tools for creating and editing XSLT Data Views on a variety of
data sources including XML files, databases, and XML SOAP services. These
Data Views include industry-standard reporting tools for sorting,
grouping, filtering, and conditionally formatting data. Users can create
high quality, dynamic Web pages for presenting live data using these
tools.
No, SharePoint Team Services will not be
available in the box with FrontPage 2003. The next version of the
SharePoint Team Services technology will be made available with Microsoft
Windows Server 2003, as Windows SharePoint Services.
Sites created by using FrontPage can be viewed
in any browser. In fact, FrontPage 2003 allows you to target specific
browser or screen resolutions, or see how your site will look in various
combinations of browsers and resolutions -- including simultaneous
previewing of multiple browsers.
PC with Pentium 133MHz or higher processor; Pentium III recommended
Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or Windows XP or later
operating system; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later, or Netscape
Navigator 6.2 or later
For Windows 2000 and Windows XP:
64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended) for the operating system plus an
additional 8 MB of RAM for each application running simultaneously.
245 MB of available hard-disk space with 235 MB on the hard disk
where the operating system is installed (hard-disk usage will vary
depending on configuration; custom installation choices may require more
or less hard-disk space).
Other:
CD-ROM drive
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors
Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse®, or other compatible
pointing device.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services required for data-driven Web
features.
It’s too early at this point to discuss
licensing options for FrontPage 2003. We’ll have more information to share
along these lines as we move closer to the product release.
No. You can run them simultaneously. During
the installation process for FrontPage 2003, you will be asked if you wish
to keep the previous version. Simply choose that option. The exception
being if you had previously installed a different beta version, you will
need to uninstall the previous beta version.
Yes. FrontPage 2002 creates standard HTML
pages that can be edited in previous versions of FrontPage. The only
exceptions are the sections of Web pages that use new features in
FrontPage 2003, such as the data driven webs features, web parts, dynamic
web templates, etc.
This document is developed prior to
the product's release to manufacturing, and as such, we cannot guarantee that
all details included herein will be exactly as what is found in the shipping
product. The information contained in this document represents the current view
of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication.
Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be
interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot
guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of
publication. The information represents the product at the time this document
was printed and should be used for planning purposes only. Information subject
to change at any time without prior notice. This document is for informational
purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS
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