Front-page is the first page of a newspaper or other publication; front matter. Front-page can also refer to the name of a newspaper or periodical and may be used as an adjective meaning ‘of great importance’, ‘of major interest’, or referring to a story that is so significant it should go on the front page.
Microsoft FrontPage (full name: Microsoft Office FrontPage) was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. It was designed to hide the details of the pages’ HTML code from its users, allowing them to create Web sites without having to know or understand how to write a line of HTML.
Originally released as a stand-alone program, it was later included with the full release of Windows NT 4.0 Server, and was merged into Microsoft FrontPage Explorer and FrontPage Editor in FrontPage 2000. Up until FrontPage 98, Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions were required for its content and publishing features to work, but in FrontPage 2000 they were incorporated into the editor application itself.
From FrontPage 2003 onwards, the product was enhanced with a number of new features including Intellisense (a form of autocompletion) and a Quick Tag Editor which displayed the tag that was currently being edited in Design View. Additionally, Code Snippets were introduced which allowed the creation of reusable pieces of code that could be quickly inserted into a Web page or site. In December 2006, Microsoft announced that it was phasing out FrontPage, with two new products being released to replace it: Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.