A front page is the main, prominently displayed portion of a website or printed publication. The term can also refer to the last pages of a newspaper or magazine where less prominent articles and advertisements appear. In general, it suggests that a topic or story is of lesser importance or is not mainstream.
The front page is the first thing visitors see when they arrive at a website, so it’s important to use this space wisely. For example, it’s common to display a Call-to-Action Bar on the front page to encourage visitors to take action. Similarly, the Slider is an excellent place to feature a video or image that will grab visitors’ attention. The Page Editor in Front Page allows you to add content to both the Slider and CTA Bar.
FrontPage was a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor and website management tool developed by Microsoft. It was included in the suite of Microsoft Office products until it was discontinued in December 2006, and replaced by two other applications: SharePoint Designer and Expression Web.
In its early days, FrontPage required a set of server-side plugins originally known as IIS Extensions. For FrontPage 97 and later versions, these were renamed FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE). FPSE was installed on the Web server where a site was hosted and used XML to communicate with the FrontPage client.
Using the same XML language, FPSE also used to work with IIS 6 and earlier. FPSE was the server-side component that allowed FrontPage to interact with the browser and to manage Web site folders and files.