A front-page article or picture appears on the top of the first page of a newspaper because it is very important, interesting or exciting. The term can also be used to refer to any story that is prominently featured on the web.
In a Web site, the front page is the starting point for all other pages on the site. It is designed to be very eye-catching and contain a Slider that can display multiple different slides of content with a rotating animation. Front-page pages also include the Call-to-Action Bar which is displayed just below the slider. The front page can also contain a sidebar which can be added and removed using Flexible Content Builder Modules just like interior pages.
Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of the Microsoft Office suite until it was discontinued in 2006. In December 2006, Microsoft announced that two new products would take its place: Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.
The first version of Microsoft FrontPage was released in 1996 and was bundled with the Windows NT 4.0 Server release as well as the Web server Internet Information Services 2.0. FrontPage was a separate program from FrontPage Explorer which managed the web site folders but with FrontPage 2000 both programs were merged into the FrontPage Editor application. FrontPage was originally developed as a Windows-only application but with the inclusion of FrontPage in Microsoft Office and subsequent releases, it was available for Macintosh operating systems as well. FrontPage relied on a set of server-side extensions called FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to communicate with web servers and provide additional functionality for websites. FPSE was a proprietary Microsoft technology and had frequent security problems.
