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Here's your latest briefing on the much-anticipated new version of Microsoft Office, now promising everything from integrated, enterprise e-mail and instant messaging to dynamic, database-query-based Web-site building -- and, to no one's surprise, a sliding ship date. But will small businesses balk at Office's evolution into a front end for Fortune 500 servers?

Need a tidy way to organize information online? First seen in Internet Explorer 3.0, scrollable inline frames have become popular ways to add lists of product information, legal disclaimers, or photo albums to Web sites. Here's how to use Microsoft FrontPage to create and control pages within pages.

After seeing how poorly FrontPage 97 coded HTML, we were reluctant to believe that FrontPage 98 would be such an improvement. Surprisingly, we were quite impressed. Microsoft has totally revamped the look and feel to make the new version very user-friendly; The management tools are top-notch, making the task of building a large Web site very easy.

Since Microsoft Corp. bought Vermeer, a WYSIWYG Web-site authoring and management programme, and renamed it, the package has catapulted to the forefront of the Web authoring-tool market. FrontPage 1.1 has added support for tables, frames, client-side image maps, and other features Webmasters have been clamouring for......

These days, everyone is becoming a webmaster/mistress. However, not everyone wants to learn the cryptic tags of HTML. Microsoft wants to take the pressures of writing HTML code off of you, with the introduction of Front Page 97. Front Page 97 is a major improvement over its predecessor. With the inclusion of a Word97-like interface, ability to add ActiveX and Java, and easy WebBots™, Microsoft wants you to create a page with a few simple clicks.