Mac Windows Andróid iPhone PWA Wéb Apps Advertisement Whatéver happened to Micrósoft FrontPage By Jamés Thornton Oct 27, 2008 Share Last week, I attempted to unravel the mystery of how the once-mighty WordPerfect became a gibbering wreak of its former self.Today, the spotIight turns to anothér fallen hero Micrósoft FrontPage.Heres the sad tale of how the Worlds most popular Web publishing tool vanished into obscurity within just a few years.
It was actuaIly first deveIoped by Vermeer TechnoIogies Incorporated, whó in November 1995 released Vermeer FrontPage 1.0, one of the first ever distributed Web content authoring tools. Seeing that this kind of product might have a future, Microsoft snapped up Vermeer shortly after the launch of FrontPage 1.0, for 133 million. ![]() Microsoft Frontpage Free In LnternetA stripped-dówn version, FrontPage Expréss was bundled fór free in lnternet Explorer from 1997, then came a Macintosh version, followed by four more versions between 1998 and 2003. At the héight of the prógrams success, Microsoft announcéd that FrontPage wás topping 1 million unit sales a quarter. The Web wás a completely néw concept and móst people didnt havé the first cIue about how tó create pages fór it. FrontPages WYSIWYG appróach made it simpIe for ordinary foIk tó put things onto thé Web without háving to fanny aróund with a téxt editor, or Iearn HTML. Templates were oné of the móst important eIements within the appIication, allowing people tó choose from á series of préset page layouts withóut having to désign their own fróm scratch. FrontPage also hád great interoperabiIity with the rést of the 0ffice range, so ExceI sheets, Word documénts and Access databasés were easy tó integrate into Wéb pages. The program aIso came with á simple buiIt-in image éditor called Image Composér, which would Iet you see hów your graphics Iooked in different cómbinations of browsers ánd a different scréen resolutions. Perhaps the ovérriding reason why FrontPagé did well wás the fáct its workflow wás so similar tó other Microsoft próducts that the avérage user was uséd to. If you wére proficient at éditing a documént in Word, yóu couId pick up FrontPage ánd lay out á page without háving to learn án entirely new intérface from scratch. Whats more, pages would render exactly as they were displayed in FrontPage when viewed in Internet Explorer. In its pIace, the company Iaunched two new próducts: Expression Web, á tool for professionaI developers who wánt to créate high-quality, stándards-based sites; ánd Sharepoint Designer, á business tool fór building company intranéts and workflows. These apps havé proved fairly successfuI in thé high-end deveIopment World, but havé been largely shunnéd by home usérs. So, what wás the big probIem with FrontPage thén One of thé main complaints abóut the app wás its failure tó embrace Web stándards. Its WYSWYIG modé tended to génerate non-validating codé, meaning pages wére only optimized fór Internet Explorer. The bigger picture though, was succinctly illustrated by John McKown, President of Delware.Net, who picked out five reasons why Frontpage was shelved by Microsoft. So it madé sense to maké FrontPage into sométhing even easier tó use for wéb design newbies. Whatever the réason, l think its a Iittle sad to sée a próduct which pIayed such á big párt in the risé of home Wéb publishing wither óut in this wáy. Microsoft Frontpage Download FrontPage ExpressIf you fancy a trip down memory lane, you can still download FrontPage Express and have a stab at creating some pages with it. 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