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Microsoft FrontPage 2003 [OLD VERSION]

Manufacturer : Microsoft Software
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List Price : $ 209.99

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Features

  • Professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools to create sophisticated Web sites
  • New layout and graphics tools make it easier to design exactly the site you want
  • Design tools to generate better code, or expand your code skills
  • With professional coding tools, write code faster, more efficiently, and with greater accuracy
  • Enhanced publishing features and options help get your Web pages online more quickly

Product Description

FrontPage 2003 delivers the features, flexibility, and functionality to help you build superior Web sites. It includes the professional design, authoring, data and publishing tools you need to create dynamic and sophisticated sites. Build data-driven Web sites, enables by Windows SharePoint services Move files easily between local and remote locations, and publish in both directions

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 3.50 out of 43 reviews

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Microsoft Front Page software review - L. Tudor, May 24, 2008

Software is a big improvement on Frontpage 2000, and is more user friendly than the previous version. Easier to navigate through and create web pages from scratch.


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Web Pages - Norman R. Cyr, Oct 22, 2007

Web pages can not be easier to design without this program and book. An excellent resource.


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What Happened to FrontPage? - John D. Barnhart, Apr 12, 2007

I have been using FrontPage since 1997. I am webmaster for three websites and have alway really thought this was a great program! BUT! I have only upgraded to FrontPage 2000 and find that with my XP computer, Win XP does not support FrontPage. Now, if I want to continue with my family Genealogy Site and a community Genealogical Society site, I will need to purchase and learn ANOTHER program. At age 70, I really don't feel like doing that!

Does anyone know if FP 2003 will work on Win XP? OR How can I get my FP 2000 to work on my WIN XP computer?




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Embraced, Extended, Extinguished - Steve G., Feb 15, 2007

Compared to FP 2000 and earlier versions, it offered some major improvements, even letting one code in (gasp) PHP with live preview - it is highly configurable, and easily tied into SharePoint (well, I think that was the intent).

It was quite an evolution, moving beyond FP2000, with some fairly advanced features - while still retaining the "entry level, small business learnable" functionality (albeit cookie cutter designs) of previous versions.

I was surprised to find it even offered options to strip out all code that hinted this site was made with FrontPage (an odd change, knowing MS), but also offered other code functions, some on par with Dreamweaver - but do not mistake this for Dreamweaver, even the first MX version. It's still aimed at Microsoft only - you really have to dig and tweak to configure it for anything else (e.g, php, cold fusion) - but it does offer some major improvements for flexibility over previous versions. Mostly good, some horribly bad.

The good - being able to tweak it to dozens of standards' compliance, Sec. 508, XML'ish stuff, whatever. By default these things are not set up, so it does take some learning.

What annoyed (and freaked me out) was that while it easily allowed for desktop development with Access, to create database driven sites - the database had to remain in a public folder - ok, I suppose if you're using it only on an intranet.

I believe the point was to code with Access, then mod it slightly to interact with SQL server - but most folks probaby did not use it that way - knowing the history and "fire and forget" ease of use of FrontPage...

Anyhow, I'd call this a para-professional version. It has way more flexibility and functionality than any version of Frontpage, ever. It is also going bye-bye.

There will not be a FrontPage 2007, due to the switch to Expression Web (which retains some FP functionality, but the "friendly" and pesky "bots" are gone). No more email bots, whatever bots - gotta learn how to roll your own.



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Front Page 2003 - Cher Van, Jan 05, 2007

I purchased this software mainly for Web Design. I am beginning in Web Design and found Microsoft Frontpage 200 easy to learn with a lot
of interesting features to design a web site. I would definitely recommend this product.

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