NET page. Interactive Designer supports two deployment mechanisms. You can create a standard WinFX executable file, or you can create a version that runs within the browser environment. An XBAP only has what we call 'partial trust', whereas the complete installed application has full trust with full access to the file system. Wayne: WinFX will run on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server , and we know people are writing things ranging from kiosk-based marketing materials right through to line-of-business applications.
If you're creating an application using WinFX, and you want that application available for local install across intranets or whatever, or you're selling it on a physical medium such as a CD, then you can distribute the WinFX components that you need to make it run. Wayne: That's a little way in the future. Build work is proceeding but at the moment it's very much at the stage of being defined and specified.
There aren't any dates attached to it yet, but I can say that it certainly won't be a reality in the immediate Vista timeframe, so for instance it's not something that Expression Interactive Designer will initially target. Wayne: I wouldn't say it's a big overlap.
Matt: The similarity is that Flash is a development platform that is richer than straight HTML, and it's available on a fairly wide range of platforms. Wayne: It is, but it's a player technology. Ours is more of a platform story than a player technology. Wayne: If you had salesmen at home who wanted to access a company's applications from a Macintosh, that would be a perfect example of how a WPF client for the Macintosh would used.
Matt: So in the Vista timeframe, developers will have the option of building two types of application: they can build a WPF application, which gives them a very rich environment on a Windows platform; but if they want to build something that can be used from the Macintosh, or from Linux or whatever, then they will be using ASP. Wayne: Yes, and of course with a WinFX executable that has full trust, they will have access to the full capabilities of the operating system. All the things you can currently do in a Win32 application today, you will be able to do in this new environment, but the development process for it will be much nicer.
Don't forget that a big part of this story is that we're bringing designers into the game. These applications will have the full functionality that they have today, but with designers involved in the creation of the application from the start because they will be able to use our Expression tools. As a result the applications will look better and function better, and bring a higher return on investment.
What we need to do is help the community establish what new working practices will be needed, because today designers do not take a full role in most application development environments. The tools are here and they're starting to be used, but what doesn't exist at the moment are the guidelines — the working practices and so forth. All that's going to have to be worked out in the months and years ahead.
Matt: There is an analogy between the Expression range and Macromedia's range of products. It's easy to draw a parallel between the Graphic Designer and Fireworks, and there's an obvious parallel between the Web Designer and Dreamweaver. Wayne: Absolutely, but where we're different is that we're not trying to be technology-agnostic.
We are very clearly in the ASP. NET camp with Web Designer, and we drill down very heavily into it. You've got full access to all the ASP. NET controls, for example. What future is there for Windows Forms applications? Wayne: We've certainly made no announcements about discontinuing the technology at all, and a lot of people will choose to develop that way. Of course we're hoping that people are going to see this brave new world and want to move to it.
There are ways that you can integrate Win32 applications with the new world, so it's not like they're being shut out. We don't currently plan on producing any conversion tools that will allow you to take a Win32 application and press a button that turns it into a WinFX application.
That said, I'm sure some clever third-party people will produce such tools. Our hope is that people will choose WinFX for their next application. Matt: But do you see a time when Windows Forms applications have problems running on future platforms?
Wayne: I'm confident they won't have trouble running. I think it's more likely that their competitors will have produced really nice-looking WinFX applications which will start them thinking that they should refresh the user experience of their application by moving to WinFX.
There's no question that Win32 applications will continue to run successfully under Vista. There's too many of them out there for it not to be a priority for us. Wayne: I'd be second-guessing the people in Redmond as to their attitude towards that, but I've not seen any announcements. As a company it's our declared intention to be as open as we can, but we don't have any announcements today. Matt: If that was the case then you could see somebody using Interactive Designer to produce a very rich user interface and generating the XAML which they then put into a third-party engine that allows it to run on a Linux platform, for example.
Wayne: I don't see any reason why that couldn't and shouldn't happen. One of the great things about XAML is that it's incredibly easy for tools to support, which is why we've already seen so many XAML exporters announced for third-party tools. The main example that exists at the moment is from Electric Rain which has a tool called Swift 3D. It's a perfect way of getting 3D objects into a WinFX project. Furthermore they had the first version working in about six weeks.
They came to a conference in Redmond in early and demonstrated it to us. Our engineers were stunned that they'd taken what wasn't very well documented at that time and produced a complete working XAML exporter.
Jaws were dropping! So it's very easy to work with and we are making it as easy as we can for people to produce exporters. Although we have produced the Expression tools for WinFX, they're not going to be the only ones. There's hopefully going to be a whole raft of tools that target XAML out there, and that's exactly the kind of ecosystem we want to build up around WinFX.
It is also to launch SharePoint Designer as part of the Microsoft Office System formerly codenamed Office '12' in the second half of this year. Current FrontPage customers will be offered special upgrade terms. Administrators will also be able to decide what capabilities are available to which users. A beta 2 version of SharePoint Designer is expected before July this year. In the meantime, Microsoft will continue to provide current FrontPage customers with full product support through June , as well as clear guidance on how they can smoothly migrate to SharePoint Designer or Expression Web Designer, depending on their roles and needs.
Read more For example it has macro language build-in. It can save you a lot of time if you learn it. For example it corrects all the links if you move page from one place to another. For very simple single line correction it might be even better then FrontPage as it loads instantly.
It is free but it is outdated page oriented editor. As complexity of WEB site grows limitations start surface. Amount of bugs generally kills its applicability for anything but a small one line edits and not critical pages like personal notes and such. With immense complexity of the application, Nvu allows anyone to easily create an entire website in a matter of minutes.
Nvu can adjust to almost any skill level, as it allows you to work with the source code as well as a well rounded GUI that lets you drag-and-drop items from a template. In addition, Nvu comes with the following features that make development a breeze:. Mozilla Inside - In an effort to bring you the best speed and functionality possible, Nvu is running off of Mozilla's Gecko engine. This helps to give the developer the speed they need to get the job done right. Nvu not only offers this, they make setting it up a snap as well.
Color Palette - Don't laugh, but having access to a decent color palette is a real life saver when you have no idea what the exact color value is that you are looking for.
At any rate, you get the idea. There are a number of other helpful features that Nvu offers, but the list is way to large to try and go over in one review. In addition, if you insert scripts into Web pages by using the Behaviors feature, FrontPage manages these scripts. This means that if you delete a script event that isn't referenced elsewhere in a Web page, FrontPage removes the script from the page.
On the other hand, if you accidentally remove a script that is referenced in an event somewhere in the page, FrontPage reinserts the script to eliminate script errors. All of this assists non-developers to create dynamic Web pages.
When you install FrontPage, you get approximately 20 predefined Behavior scripts. These scripts include drop-down menus, mouse-over effects, and a client browser check. However, you can do more with the Behaviors feature than simply insert predefined scripts into your Web pages. You can also create your own behaviors, and you can distribute your custom behaviors to others.
For example, you may have a script that opens a hyperlink in a pre-sized window; behaviors provides an easy way to make the script available to everyone in your organization. Alternatively, you might want an effective way of distributing scripts to your customers that allows them to insert scripts into their Web pages without working with HTML code, or manage scripts in their Web pages to prevent them from accidentally deleting a script.
The form component contains the user interface for your script. This allows users to insert custom data. You may also use the form page to inform your users of what your script does and allow them to cancel without doing anything. The Behaviors API , explained in detail later in this article, is a set of functions that FrontPage uses to process the script.
The API contains instructions on which scripts that FrontPage is to insert and provides any additional cleanup tasks that your behavior may need to perform when you delete the script.
This file may also contain scripts that the form page needs to function, such as scripts for validating and canceling the form. While you can put all the code for these two components into a single HTML document, for simplicity, this article discusses these two components as separate files: an HTML form page and a script file. This article walks you through the process of creating these two files to create a custom behavior. The behavior script that you create disables right-click functionality on images in a Web page.
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Past week. Past month. Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft FrontPage XP. Google matched content. All Files -. Sort Table -. Breadcrumb Trail -. Outline -. Navigation Tree -. I will follow your reply and see what happens. I will be only working a back up copy on my computer, when I'm sure that I am going in right dieection then I will upload it to the server. I will report back in a few days I hope! Pat H. Wednesday, November 21, PM. What is the current Microsoft product that is aimed at "Office workers"?
Thursday, November 22, PM. Ron states that "FrontPage for "Office workers" who know a little about building web pages, Expression Web is aimed at web professionals".
What does Microsoft recommend for web building software for these "Office workers who know a little about building web pages" and were using FrontPage? There really is no comparable replacement for the FrontPage Guestbook feature.
You can do a Google search for "guestbooks" but I can not recommend any of them. You might wish to try adding a Blog rather than a Guestbook either as a separate domain or a subdomain of your site. You can post articles that refer back to your site in some way and your viewers can add comments.
You FrontPage Photo Gallery can be replaced with a photo album generator. You can salvage both the images and thumbnails from your FrontPage Photo Gallery if you choose or just the images themselves. The Table of Contents feature can be replaced with a Site Map. Delete the old Table of Contents page and create a new page named site-map. You can either use a sitemap generator to create you new page or create it from scratch.
A Good example of a site maps is:. As you can see on each of the above site maps, the title of the page is used for the anchor text, a title attribute tag or screen tip is included, and a short description for each link. You should use an unordered bulleted list. You should also implement a xml sitemap. You can generate either or both types of site maps by using:.
Both of these will give you much more information and be more reliable than the FP Hit Counter. Step One : In all probability, your pages have either no doctype statement or an incomplete one. I recommend you work in Split View so that you can see as you do the various cleanup procedures, what clean code looks like. Step Three : As you work on cleaning your pages, you should also be implementing semantic mark-up as well as simple SEO practices.
If you have followed Tina's Setting Up Expression Web E-Book , you will be reminded to insert a short descriptive sentence about the picture, remember to use a full stop period at the end so that screen readers can use the tab key to tab through graphics if wanted.
Make use of the Title Attribute as you work with your hyperlinks. Expression Web makes this easy to do. As you insert your hyperlink, click the Screen Tip button and add an explanation of where the link is going and what it is about. This is especially import for your menu hyperlinks as they are by nature restricted to shorter keyword anchor text.
When it comes to Hyperlinks, make sure you use the Title Attribute tag that explains where the link is going and what its about, this is must specially be used on menus, as often a menu is necessarily restricted to a shorter keyword anchor text. Although the keyword meta tag is no longer used by Google, you may want to use it anyway. The description meta tag should be used. They can be easily inserted by right clicking in Design View and select Page Properties.
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