            Microsoft FrontPage 98 Intranet Datasheet

Microsoft FrontPage 98 combines ease of use, innovative imaging
tools and design assistance, and seamless integration with the
Microsoft Office family of applications to deliver a complete
solution for creating and managing intranets without
programming--so your internal Web site gets used.

Microsoft FrontPage 98 is a quick, effective way to create and
manage professional-quality intranet sites without programming.
It makes it easy for new users and professional Web developers
alike to build and maintain great-looking, professional-quality
Web sites in no time.

Easily create great-looking Web sites.

Easy-to-use, leading edge features let you create
professional-quality intranets without programming. Create
WYSIWYG frames pages and draw HTML tables in the WYSIWYG
FrontPage Editor. Add sophisticated, interactive functionality
using FrontPage components-there's no need to write code.

Innovative imaging tools and intelligent design assistance make
it easier than ever to build great-looking Web sites. Add rich,
dynamic graphics to your sites using Microsoft Image Composer,
Microsoft GIF Animator, and more than 1,000 image samples.

With FrontPage 98, easily include powerful Web functionality in
your sites by adding JavaTM applets, ActiveXTM controls, and
browser plug-ins. Support for databases and Active Server Pages
allows you to include database content in your intranet easily
and lets users perform dynamic database queries on your site,
giving them direct access to the information they need.

Manage your intranet your way.

Comprehensive management tools let you quickly build and
maintain well-organized intranets. View your site's navigational
structure, directories of information, hyperlinks, hyperlink
status, or all files at once. With automatic hyperlink
maintenance, you have the freedom to make changes without
worrying about broken links, and with site-wide thematic styles,
you can easily update your intranet's look with the click of a
button. Plus, flexible collaboration features such as Tasks
lists and remote and/or local authoring let you work with others
to create and manage your Web site.

Integrate what you already have.

Seamless integration with existing content and with desktop
applications you already have like Microsoft Office 97 makes you
productive from the start. And strong browser integration makes
it easy to customize and view your Web site's content.

Create your ownintranet today! Create and manage
professional-quality intranets quickly and easily with FrontPage
98.


With FrontPage 98, it's easy to create and manage intranets that
get used.

Easily create great-looking Web sites.

WYSIWYG tables: Draw and erase tables with the same ease that
you use a pencil and paper. Easily insert rows and columns, and
then select the borders of table cells and drag them to the
positions you want.  Great for either including information in
tables in your intranet, or for laying out pages for your
intranet.

Draw WYSIWYG tables as easily as you would using a pencil and
paper, making columns, rows, and cells of varying sizes and
shapes to custom fit your content.

WYSIWYG frames: Create and modify framesets directly within the
FrontPage Editor in true WYSIWYG fashion, then edit the
individual frames pages and frameset directly on screen--all
with drag-and-drop ease.

Build eye-catching pages using WYSIWYG frames editing. Create
and modify frames and framesets in the FrontPage Editor, plus
view and edit Web pages within any frame--all with drag-and-drop
ease.

  * Wizards: Make creating new pages or an entire intranet easy.
    Just answer a few questions, and wizards will do the rest
    for you.
  * Templates: Generate Web sites or pages from predefined
    formats. Simply replace the generated content with your own
    words, images, and ideas.
  * FrontPage components and Save to E-mail: Eliminate the need
    to write your own programs by providing drop-in commands for
    adding sophisticated, interactive functionality to your Web
    sites. Submit form results over the intranet to an e-mail
    address or file of your choice, or easily add full-text
    searching capabilities to your intranet to help co-workers
    easily find information they are looking for.
  * Navigation bars: Automatically generate navigation bars on
    any Web page in the FrontPage Editor, making it easy for
    co-workers to navigate your intranet.
  * Themes and Themes View: Give your entire site a
    high-quality, consistent look. Choose from more than 50
    professionally designed thematic templates that include
    backgrounds, fonts, page headers, and navigation buttons, or
    assign a Theme to any individual Web page to vary only that
    page's look.

Give your entire site a consistent lookwith more than 50
professionally designed thematic templates, including
backgrounds, fonts, page headers, and navigation buttons.

  * Graphical bullets: Easily specify custom images to use in
    place of the bullets normally found on Web pages. Either
    apply a Theme to a page to add its matching graphical
    buttons, or choose any image to be used as the new bullet.
  * Banner Ad Manager and Dynamic HTML support: Call attention
    to important information on your intranet by using a series
    of banners or new, dynamic HTML. Select from several easy
    options that handle rotating information in your Web site,
    or easily add dynamic Web content such as text that "flies"
    onto your page from off-screen!
  * JavaTM applet, ActiveXTM controls, and browser plug-in
    support: Include powerful Web functionality in an intuitive
    WYSIWYG environment.

Include powerful Web technologies. Easily customize your Web
pages with your own HTML tags, ActiveX controls, Java applets,
JavaScript, browser plug-ins, and Microsoft Visual Basic,
Scripting Edition.

  * Import Wizard: Easily import existing files or entire
    folders of information into your FrontPage Web sites, and
    now import Web content directly from an intranet or Internet
    URL instead of simply from a file location.
  * Database Region Wizard and Active Server Pages support:
    Especially useful for an intranet, leverage Active Server
    Pages functionality to include dynamic database content
    directly in your Web pages, or connect to OBDC-compliant
    databases to allow users to perform dynamic database queries
    to your site over the intranet.
  * Text over images and hover buttons: Easily add text directly
    over images, making graphical button creation a snap. Then,
    effortlessly create cool animation effects on your
    button-shaped images, so that when a user "hovers" over or
    clicks on the button, it changes color or shape, or animates
    the way you have choosen.

Effectively manage Web content and site structure.
  * Navigation View: Automatically generate your navigational
    links in this printable view by using it to build your Web
    site's key navigational structure--ensuring easy site-wide
    navigation and intuitive site organization.

Select the site view that best fits your needs. With the
convenient FrontPage Views bar, you choose the way to view your
Web site's organization and content. Simply click on the
Navigation View icon and then, in the resulting window, add or
edit Web pages and navigational links with ease.

  * Folders View: View a directory level representation of your
    Web site and a sortable properties list for each folder or
    file, making it easy to manage your Web site content more
    effectively.

  * Hyperlinks View: Graphically display all hyperlinks between
    pages, with arrows indicating the direction of each link.
    Position your cursor over any icon in the view to call up
    its related attributes.
  * All Files View: Quickly find all assets and organize them by
    attribute with this centralized viewing feature.  Easily
    locate duplicate files to manage WEb size, and identify
    orphan files and delete those that are no longer needed.
  * Hyperlink Status View: Check the status of and immediately
    fix your Web site's internal and external hyperlinks using
    this centralized view.

View your site's entire layout.The Hyperlink View provides
hierarchical and graphical representations of your site's
structure, including all pages and hyperlinks, so you can see
just how easy it is for a user to discover your content.

  * Automatic hyperlink updates: Let FrontPage 98 automatically
    update any hyperlinks when you rename assets or drag and
    drop files to other folders in your Web site, easily keeping
    your intranet up to date.
  * Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) support: Define complex styles
    and create, dramatic page layout settings with
    word-processor-like control over HTML text.
  * Remote and collaborative authoring and editing: Allow
    multiple authors to collaborate on Web sites hosted on
    remote or local servers.

Seamlessly integrate existing content and familiar applications.
  * Office integration: Effortlessly manage Microsoft Office 97
    hyperlinks and use familiar tools such as the spelling
    checker and thesaurus to ensure accurate, compelling
    intranet content.
  * Browser integration and Preview Tab: Experience tighter
    browser integration--drag and drop content from Microsoft
    Internet Explorer onto your Web pages and easily preview
    your pages in any browser you choose. Also, select the new
    FrontPage Editor Preview Tab to preview Web pages, including
    active elments, right on screen in the FrontPage Editor.

  * Image editing tools: Bring Web sites to life with rich
    graphics and animated images created using Microsoft Image
    Composer and Microsoft GIF Animator.

  * Free, cross-platform FrontPage 98 Server Extensions: The
    power of FrontPage is now available on all popular Web
    servers running on a variety of operating systems.


                              Top

                  c 1997 Microsoft Corporation
               All rights reserved. Legal Notices.

