The WebDev Buzz

A too simple website cannot attract clients. With so many Internet companies cropping up like mushrooms after the rain, the competition in Internet marketing is becoming stiff. The websites of many business players must appear professional. And this is why a too simple website may give the impression of sloppy work or low-quality products.

To create that sophisticated and impressive website, a person must also use an equally sophisticated and impressive tool. Such tool can be the Microsoft FrontPage 2003. This tool is user friendly but it includes features such as authoring, professional design, and publishing tools. In other words, the Microsoft FrontPage 2003 can help a person assemble and build a better website.

The Microsoft FrontPage 2003 helps build topnotch websites by focusing on three major aspects. These are designing, coding, and extending.

Designing
The user of Microsoft FrontPage 2003 will find great tools, layout and graphic features which will make the designing of his web pages faster. Such features will also allow the user to create the website that he has in mind, and not a poor substitute only of his vision. Specifically, this software enables the user perform the following:

• Automatically change all pages that are linked to a template by simply updating the master template.
• View how the website will appear by using different combinations of resolutions and browsers.
• Easily manipulate the layout of tables using the built-in pixel-precise control.
• Conveniently utilize graphics from other applications.

Coding
Coding is a crucial aspect in web development. The Microsoft FrontPage 2003 boasts of design tools which can efficiently and neatly create Hypertext Markup Language. These design tools are coding tools and scripting tools. In the coding tools, the user can use the following:

• A split view that will readily show the modifications applied
• A Quick Tag Selector and a Quick Tag Editor that will aid in choosing, changing, and moving tags
• A Microsoft IntelliSense® technology that will simplify the code writing

In the scripting tools, here are two things that the user can accomplish:

1. Increase interactivity in the website by utilizing behaviors to author the Jscript
2. Make use of support for IntelliSense, and scripting tools for authoring Jscript.

Extending
Extending or establishing connections with other people can be accomplished by building the XML or Extensible Markup Language websites which are rich with information. To do this, a person may use the WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) editor. That last one sounds a mouthful but it can rapidly propel the web pages online.