1. Using Microsoft FrontPage and Visual InterDev Stephen W. Meeley Vice President Product Management

2. So many tools, so little time…  Dealing with your DataFlex code is a known entity  WebApp IDE  Database Builder  Database Explorer  Visual DataFlex Compiler  Deciding what tools to use for the Web design and/or publishing is new territory

3. Tools from Microsoft  FrontPage 98  Visual InterDev 6.0  There are many options, each with their own view of the Web world.  Talk to people with experience

4. What is Microsoft FrontPage?  A Web authoring tool designed for non programmers.  A member of the Microsoft Office family, which looks and works like other Office applications.  Geared toward content publishers.

5. What is Microsoft Visual InterDev?  A Web development tool designed for programmers.  A member of the Microsoft Visual Tools family, and looks and works like other Microsoft visual development tools.  Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic

6. Components of FrontPage 98  FrontPage Explorer  FrontPage Editor  Personal Web Server with FrontPage Server Extensions  Internet Explorer  Image Composer

7. FrontPage Explorer  The FrontPage Explorer is a tool for creating, organizing, administering, and publishing FrontPage webs.  Create the structure or layout of your Web site, arrange its files and folders, import and export pages and files, test and repair hyperlinks, administer access privileges, and launch the FrontPage Editor to design and edit the contents of your Web pages.

8. FrontPage Explorer  You also use the FrontPage Explorer to publish completed FrontPage webs on your computer, your organization’s intranet, or the World Wide Web.

9. FrontPage Features  WYSIWYG editing of HTML pages, including text, headings, inline images, and most HTML extensions (page background images, custom text colors, font point sizes, etc.)  WYSIWYG editing of HTML forms, including text input fields, scrolling text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-down pick lists, and pushbuttons

10. FrontPage Features  Link, Outline, and Summary views of all of the hyperlinks, documents, and multimedia files comprising the web as a whole  Drag-and-drop adding of hyperlinks between pages, or from pages to any other file types (sound, video, PDF, etc.)

11. FrontPage Features  WebBots™, which quickly add sophisticated interactive functions (such as threaded discussion groups, full-text search, web registration, and form-driven surveys) to the web without  Wizards and templates, to easily create complete webs and individual pages

12. FrontPage Features  Creating clickable imagemaps using the mouse to indicate hotspot boundaries  Remote, collaborative authoring support, allowing multiple users, geographically dispersed, to develop against the same web simultaneously

13. FrontPage Features  Multi-user To Do List, which tracks the tasks remaining to complete a web Setting permissions for end-users, authors, and administrators of a Web  Copying a web from one web server to another, including documents, clickable imagemaps, programming (via WebBots), and permissions

14. FrontPage Features  Verifying that all hyperlinks to external webs are still valid  Automatically converting Rich Text Format (RTF) and plain text files to HTML  Automatically converting most popular image formats into GIF or JPEG, the native formats of the Web

15. FrontPage Features  Automatically creating transparent GIF images  Browsing (and, potentially, importing) any page on the global Web from directly within the FrontPage Editor, either by specifying a URL or by ctrl-clicking on any hyperlink