FrontPage Web Hosting
FrontPage Web
Hosting
has arisen from the success and popularity of Microsoft FrontPage.
First of all, what is
FrontPage? Simply put, it's a software program that helps the user to
create dynamic, interactive web pages without the need to posses any
knowledge of HTML or other web programming scripts. This user-friendly
point-and-click model, based around a straightforward
"What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) display, is familiar to most
users of other products in the Microsoft office suite.
Given FrontPage's
popularity, many market-savvy web hosts now offer FrontPage
hosting to clients as a comprehensive package. Some companies
are even choosing to specialize in FrontPage Hosting.
For the slightly more
advanced user, FrontPage allows you to compose your site in HTML and/or
view and edit the HTML code generated automatically concurrent with the
point-and-click method. For the slightly less advanced, or the more
time-crunched, FrontPage also provides various templates of web pages of
all different styles and sizes, for all different needs, from pleasure
to business and back again.
The primary benefit to
using a FrontPage hosting service for your site rather than any other
generic web host is that a FrontPage web hosting provider has FrontPage
extensions enabled, which allow you, the user, to bypass the cumbersome,
intermediary step of using a 3 rd party FTP client to publish your site.
This feature alone makes
it well worth considering FrontPage and a FrontPage hosting provider for
all your web-presence needs, as you continue to reap the benefits every
time you update your site (which will be often, believe me) and every
time save yourself 5 or 10 minutes of unnecessary labor.
FrontPage server
extensions, as Microsoft puts it in their MSDN library, are programs to
support, administer, author, and browse FrontPage websites.
The second benefit to
choosing a FrontPage hosting provider for your FrontPage website(s) is
that there are numerous juicy FrontPage features that are only
accessible via a server with FrontPage extensions enabled.
If you plan to use any of
the following on your FrontPage website, you must choose a FrontPage web
hosting provider, specifically:
Hit Counter - for tracking the number of visitors hitting certain of
your site's pages
Forms- for sending data inputted into forms to a file, an email address,
or a database
Discussion Forum - for sending and displaying comments sent by visitors
to the site
Search - for more detailed search functionality both within your site
and on the overall web
Mult-User Authoring - for allowing more than one programmer to work at
the same time
creating and editing pages of the site
Remote Authoring and Administration - for
permitting authorized users to perform administrative and editorial
duties from any computer connected to the web.
These tools will only work on a server with FrontPage extensions
enabled. If you don't run your own server on which you can install these
extensions yourself, your best (and cheapest) bet is to go with a
FrontPage hosting provider.
Taken from
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