My webs: MS FrontPage

MS FrontPage is great management tool that gives you everything you need to create and manage exactly the site you want, whether you're creating a personal Web page or a corporate Internet or intranet site. Use this site to find additional information and resources on using FrontPage to create exactly the sites you want. Click on any of the topics or tutorials below. FrontPage contains a wealth of powerful features that are designed precisely to support the needs of the most sophisticated of Web authors. Several features help advanced Web developers develop and refine the most complex of Web pages: the Microsoft Script Editor, for instance, and the HTML View mode. Additionally, FrontPage provides a downloadable HTML Tools toolbar, which provides additional levels of detail for making changes to your code while working in Page View (i.e. Normal View). More

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For advanced developers, particularly developers whose pages use scripts developed with Visual Basic® development system for Applications or Java, these sophisticated features enable you to do all your work with one tool. You can write and debug scripts right from within FrontPage, manipulate HTML code at a very granular level, and test the pages right in the same interface.

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Microsoft Script Editor

The Microsoft Script Editor is both one of the most powerful tools and one of the best-kept secrets of FrontPage. Accessible through the Tools/Macro/ pull down menu (or by pressing Alt+Shift+F11), the Microsoft Script Editor is designed specifically to support Visual Basic and Javascript authoring.

"It's basically Visual InterDev® web development system inside FrontPage," says Ben Canning, a program manager in the Microsoft Office group, "It provides a script developer with many of the features you'd find in Visual InterDev. It provides features such as statement completion and script debugging, and these make it very easy to develop rich scripts quickly and efficiently."

"The Microsoft Script Editor is a powerful time-saver," adds Joseph Khalaf, a Microsoft Support Engineer. "It saves a lot of time by cutting back on errors right from the start. If you're typing a script in Notepad and you misspell something-say you type 'document.wite' instead of 'document.write'-the script just won't run. If you've got 1,000 lines of code you might lose 15 or 20 minutes trying to figure out where the problem is. If you're doing this in the Microsoft Script Editor, as soon as you type 'document' followed by the dot, Microsoft IntelliSense® technology kicks in and shows you the list of properties or methods that are available for 'document,' and all you have to do is click the one you want."

The Microsoft Script Editor also provides powerful testing and debugging tools, so you can step through your scripts or insert breakpoints in the code to discover just where problems exist. In addition, some developers also want more control of their editing environment, and to have the ability to manipulate the tools palettes and project explorer palette. The new Microsoft Script Editor allows you to hide those palettes if you want to so that you can maximize your screen space. If, however, you want a particular palette always visible, you just click on the tack to lock it in place.
A Powerful Fix for Script Junkies
"If you're a script junkie, the Microsoft Script Editor makes it easier and faster for you to complete your work more accurately," says Ed Chavez, a Web page designer and intranet manager who works for a Silicon Valley-based online financial services company. Chavez ought to know: after years of working with a wide range of Web development tools-Chavez chooses to do his development in FrontPage. And his work is anything but amateurish: Chavez used FrontPage to build a departmental intranet serving more than 40 people. "It was initially used to facilitate communications among team members," Chavez explains. "It provided a repository of meeting minutes, updated news about the company, department, surveys and the like. The content is all database driven and, best of all, people in the department could publish content to the site without knowing anything about HTML."

Using FrontPage and the Microsoft Script Editor, Chavez created this user-oriented intranet in less than 30 days. The site was so successful that Chavez was asked to expand the site to support all the departments across the corporation-and the same tools enabled him to complete that job single-handedly in just under a month.

"It was all done very quickly," Chavez says, "but it wasn't because I'm some kind of wizard. It was all FrontPage and the Script Editor. That was the key to getting it done."