FrontPage used to pride itself on its almost code-free approach to Web design, but not any more. Top of the new coding features is the Split View, which combines layout and HTML views. There are also improved code formatting and Auto-complete features, providing a drop-down list of context-sensitive options as you type. Auto-complete also handles regularly reused code snippets and works with HTML, CSS, XSL, JavaScript, JScript, VBScript and ASP .NET, which are all directly editable.

Microsoft finally recognises that web authoring needs a standards-compliant tool, albeit on its own terms.

Microsoft prepares to march into Adobe territory with its forthcoming suite of graphics and web development software.

It has been over two years since we previewed Office XP, but Microsoft has finally given us a glimpse of Office 2003. The finished version should be on the shelves by the end of July, but will it be worth the upgrade? The answer could be an emphatic 'yes' if you're a Tablet PC user, as Microsoft has just launched OneNote (see page 59), making full use of electronic ink. The company is also introducing InfoPath (see page 59) for designing electronic forms, with the flexibility of XML. The classic apps have also had their seen refurbishment, with Outlook (page 56) getting the most attention, and FrontPage and Publisher (page 58) a bit of a revamp.

This program will convert a website created with FrontPage so that it can be uploaded to a web host ...

Version 3 of Xara Webstyle (Xaras Web graphics creation package) is designed to make Web design as simple as cut, copy and paste.Webstyle has a history of appealing to no-coding-skill designers looking for a quick and professional finish to their site.

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A disappointingly modest number of improvements, although they’re well integrated into the complete suite.

Professional web design on your Mac

Professional web design on your Mac

Professional web design on your Mac

Plesk for Windows offers the most extensive web server management feature set in the industry today....

An innovative and potentially very useful service for small businesses without an existing IT infrastructure.

A new interface delivers significant improvements, but the bundling of separate apps for related tasks raises concerns.

Web Easy promises that anyone can use it to create Web sites and even a complete novice can create and publish a page in less than an hour. With only a few qualifiers this is absolutely true.