Simple to use with previous knowledge of Office products.
However, newer versions of FrontPage also support the standard WebDAV protocol for remote web publishing and authoring.Ī version for Mac OS was released in 1998 however, it had fewer features than the Windows product and Microsoft has not updated it since. Microsoft offered both Windows and Unix-based versions of FPSE. Both sets of extensions needed to be installed on the target web server for its content and publishing features to work. The extension set was significantly enhanced for Microsoft inclusion of FrontPage into the Microsoft Office line-up with the 97 release and subsequently renamed FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE). Bundled on CD with the NT 4.0 Server release, Front.1 would run under NT 4.0 (Server or Workstation) or Windows 95, and was aimed at providing server administrators with a tool to deliver rich web and intranet content in a package as easy to use as Microsoft Word.įrontPage used to require a set of server-side plugins originally known as IIS Extensions.
Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up.Īs a WYSIWYG editor, FrontPage is designed to hide the details of pages' HTML code from the user, making it possible for novices to easily create web pages and sites.įrontPage's initial outing under the Microsoft name came in 1996 with the release of Windows NT 4.0 Server and its constituent HTTPd server Internet Information Services 2.0. FrontPage was initially created by the Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in filenames and directories prefixed _vti_ in web sites created using FrontPage.