The front page is the main section of a newspaper or other publication that contains the most important news stories. The back pages contain other stories that are less significant. The term also applies to an article or picture that makes it to the front page of a newspaper, magazine or other publication because it is considered highly important and interesting.
FrontPage (full name Microsoft Office FrontPage) is a WYSIWYG Web editor from Microsoft that was included in the Windows line of operating systems from 1997 until it was replaced by two new products, Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer, in 2006.
It is designed to hide the details of the underlying HTML code from the user, making it easy for non-programmers to create Web pages and sites. The first version of FrontPage was released in 1996 and was bundled on CD with the Windows NT 4.0 Server release and its constituent Web server Internet Information Services 2.0. FrontPage is written in Visual Basic and uses a proprietary extension set, originally known as Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions and later renamed FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions, that must be installed on the Web server to work.
FrontPage 2003 introduced a split view to allow the user to switch between Design View and Code View without needing to restart the application or manually switch tabs. It also introduced Intellisense, a form of autocompletion that suggests tags or properties as the user types in Code View and code snippets which can be re-used to reduce the amount of typing required to build complex pages.
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