Microsoft FrontPage version 2002

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Microsoft FrontPageversion 2002

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• Microsoft Corporation
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Agenda
FrontPage 2002 allows you to
Create exactly the web site you want.

• Quickly create exactly the web site you want with
  rich graphics and dynamic content
  
• Easy for novices to learn, yet fast for everyone
  to use, including experienced web developers
  
• Save time by adding sophisticated technology
  without having to know or spend time on
  programming

Control and manage your web site with confidence
.

• Access and analyze data to better manage site
  performance and effectiveness
  
• Control exactly how your HTML code looks and
  works
  
• Publish and secure your web site with precision
  flexibility
  
• Control your web site with confidence

Cultivate productivity and teamwork.

• Increase communication collaboration
  functionality
  
• Easily add e-commerce functionality to your site
• Work together across the globe on web content
• Take advantage of integration potential through
  applications, partners, and services that work
  with FrontPage

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Web Publishing Category Evolution
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2001
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FrontPage version 2002 SharePoint Team Services
Microsoft acquires Vermeer
FrontPage 2000 Office Server Extensions

• WYSIWYG editing site management in one
• Early collaboration via discussions
  subscriptions
  
• Teams give content to webmaster to post

• Single technical webmaster
• Individual page creation
• Static text and images

• Teams collaborate and contribute content
  themselves via browser
  
• E-Commerce integration with bCentral (client
  server service)
  
• Automatic Web Content brings dynamic content

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FrontPage Installed BaseAnnounced January 2001
5.1 million
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Server Extensions Architecture
FrontPage Client
Web FoldersOffice Client
Visual InterDev
FP-RPC via HTTP
IIS (or Apache)
ISAPI
Server Filesystem
FrontPage Server Extensions DLLs
IIS Metabase
Index Server Windows SAM SMTP Mail
Usage Logs
Content Mgt, Metadata, Runtime, Admin
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Create exactly the web site you want.

• Improved user interface
• Task Pane, page tabs, integrated folder list and
  navigation pane
  
• Editing, site management, and graphics all in
  one
  
• Photo Gallery and PowerPoint-like graphics tools
• Automatic Web Content from MSN, MSNBC, Expedia,
  and bCentral
  
• More flexible navigation
• New link bars
• Background color or image in shared borders

Quickly create exactly the web site you want with
rich graphics and dynamic content
Easy for novices to learn, yet fast for everyone,
including experienced web developers
Save time by adding sophisticated technology
without having to know programming
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FrontPage version 2002feature highlights
Improved User Interface

• Task Pane for commonly used items
• Page tabs for multi-page editing
• Integrated Folder List Navigation Pane

Photo Gallery

• Add captions and descriptions to photos
• Choose from one of 4 professional-looking
  layouts
  
• Edit whenever you want

• Word Art
• Autoshapes
• Callouts
• Arrows
• Shadows

PowerPoint-like Graphics Editing Tools
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FrontPage version 2002feature highlights
Automatic Web Content

• Free continuously updated content
• MSNBC headlines, MSN search stock ticker,
  Expedia maps, bCentral small business tools

More Flexible Navigation

• Place Link Bars anywhere
• Use buttons from any Theme (great for quick
  buttons)
  
• Can link to email addresses, external sites,
  pages, or shares

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Control and manage your web site with confidence.

• Usage Analysis Reports
• Top 10 Lists
• Enhanced reports to find broken hyperlink, slow
  pages, and more
  
• Tools for Web Professionals
• Smart Tag to paste the way you want
• Preservation of HTML, XML, ASP and optional XML
  HTML reformatting
  
• Database Interface Wizard
• Improved publishing
• Publish single pages or exclude pages from
  publishing
  
• New dialog to show source destination

Access and analyze data to better manage site
performance and effectiveness
Control exactly how your HTML code looks and works
Publish and secure your web site with precision
flexibility
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FrontPage version 2002feature highlights
Usage Analysis Reports Top 10 Lists

• Track visitors per page, referring sites and
  domains, browsers, operating systems
  
• Insert automatically updated lists of top 10
  pages

Tools for Web Professionals

• Use menus and buttons to quickly code, even in
  HTML View
  
• Source code preservation
• Apply XML formatting
• Optional HTML re-formatting

• New Database Interface Wizard so you can easily
  hook forms to databases and even edit databases
  from a form

Forms Database Tools
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FrontPage version 2002feature highlights
Improved Publishing

• Single page publishing exclude specific pages
  from publishing
  
• Drag and drop from source to destination and
  publishing log files
  
• 2 3 times faster on large sites

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Cultivate productivity and teamwork.

• SharePoint Team Services
• Instant team web sites with browser-based
  editing
  
• Store, find, and share information and fully
  customize with FrontPage
  
• E-Commerce Add-in
• bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in for FrontPage
  allows you to sell online
  
• Work together across the globe
• Available in 26 languages with Unicode
• Many hosting partners support FrontPage and
  SharePoint Team Services
  
• Many compatible third-party applications

Increase communication collaboration
functionality
Easily add e-commerce functionality to your site
Work together across the globe on web content
Works with third party services and providers
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FrontPage version 2002feature highlights
SharePoint Team Services

• Instant team web sites that are editable from the
  browser and customizable with FrontPage
  
• Store, find, collaborate, and organization
  information files

bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in

• Sell products online and bCentral handles the
  transactions
  
• Host your pages wherever you want

• FrontPage is available in 26 languages
• Most major hosting companies support the
  FrontPage Server Extensions
  
• Many third party applications available to extend
  FrontPage functionality

Working Together Across the Globe
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Demonstration
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FrontPage and Its Competitors

• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• 2 to FrontPage and growing fast
• Rising in popularity as Flash and Shockwave grow
• Expensive and difficult to learn
• Adobe GoLive
• 3 to FrontPage
• Favored by Adobe PhotoShop users
• More expensive than FrontPage and more difficult
  to learn
  
• Low End Competitors
• Fluid competitors come and go
• Priced less than 100 ERP
• Questionable support and features

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Pricing, Packaging, and Licensing

• Pricing
• Full package product 169 ERP
• Upgrades from previous versions 89.95
• Licensing
• FrontPage same as Office, plus one license for
  each server running SharePoint Team Services
  
• SharePoint Team Services no separate CALs, but
  Windows CALs may be required for file and print
  services required in order to access documents
  (depends on how SharePoint will be used)
• Packaging
• Also available with selected versions of Office
• Availability
• Summer of year 2001 (launching with Office)

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Where to go for More Information

• FrontPage Web site
• http//www.microsoft.com/frontpage
• Includes information on trial programs,
  evaluation information, and support offerings
  
• FrontPage Bulletin newsletter
• http//www.microsoftfrontpage.com/bulletin
• Web site hosting providers that support the
  FrontPage Server Extensions
  
• http//www.microsoftwpp.com/wppsearch

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Summary
FrontPage 2002 allows you to
Create exactly the web site you want.

• Quickly create exactly the web site you want with
  rich graphics and dynamic content
  
• Easy for novices to learn, yet fast for everyone
  to use, including experienced web developers
  
• Save time by adding sophisticated technology
  without having to know or spend time on
  programming

Control and manage your web site with confidence
.

• Access and analyze data to better manage site
  performance and effectiveness
  
• Control exactly how your HTML code looks and
  works
  
• Publish and secure your web site with precision
  flexibility
  
• Control your web site with confidence

Cultivate productivity and teamwork.

• Increase communication collaboration
  functionality
  
• Easily add e-commerce functionality to your site
• Work together across the globe on web content
• Take advantage of integration potential through
  applications, partners, and services that work
  with FrontPage

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