FrontPage 2000

By Sharon Marek, Web Developer UNT Central Web Support

As the new campus agreement for Microsoft software rolls out, more and more people are installing FrontPage 2000, the newest version of FrontPage for Windows and UNIX-based platforms. FrontPage is the Web editing software supported for faculty and staff by Central Web Support.*

FrontPage has two major components: the client (software that's installed on your desktop), and the server extensions (software that's installed on the server). The central Web servers at UNT have the FrontPage 2000 extensions installed. But don't worry - your copy of FrontPage 98 or FrontPage 97 will still work normally.

There are a few significant changes from FrontPage 98 to FrontPage 2000. In FrontPage 98, for example, the Explorer (file management) and the Editor (page editing) were separate. In FrontPage 2000, these functions are integrated. And there are a few minor organizational changes, as well. For instance, those of you used to finding the 'bookmark' (the target for an internal link) in the Edit menu should look in the Insert menu, instead. But generally speaking, those familiar with FrontPage 98 shouldn't have any difficulty upgrading to FrontPage 2000.

And there are some exciting new features as well. One new feature is the ability to tell FrontPage not to adjust your HTML - so those of us that code our own in the HTML can code freely, knowing that FrontPage won't "correct" it anymore.

Central Web Support has FrontPage documentation at  http://www.unt.edu/webinfo/tutor/ - including  a Reference Sheet and Tutorial for FrontPage 2000.

Contact your Network Manager to have FrontPage 2000 installed on your local computer.

*FrontPage for the Macintosh has yet to be upgraded from the original FrontPage 1.0 for that platform. It still works with FrontPage 2000, though.