FrontPage is an HTML editor
that you use to create web
pages. It is a Microsoft
product.
Here's the Wikipedia article
on FrontPage:
Microsoft Front Page
An interesting aspect of FrontPage,
according to the Wikipedia article
is that it was originally owned
by a company called Vermeer
Technologies Incorporated.
This solves a mystery for me. I've
always wondered why FrontPage files
and directories always seem to have
the following prefix:
_vti_
I see the four characters, _vti_,
everywhere on a FrontPage website.
Apparently, _vti_ stands for
Vermeer Technologies Incorporated.
Mystery solved!
I'm starting this blog to help myself and
others learn about two things:
- The files that FrontPage creates
and updates when a website is
published. - The FrontPage Extensions that
FrontPage calls upon to perform
basic services, such as form
submission
These are just two things I'm trying
to learn more about but learning about
them is quite a task.
Why do I bother? I don't own a copy
of FrontPage myself. Nor do I use it.
Why would someone who neither owns nor
uses FrontPage care what is there?
The answer is that as a web developer,
I frequently encounter issues with
FrontPage. It happens quite often.
I run a website repair business here:
Web Site Repair Guy
So, it is best that I know something about
FrontPage.
Especially these 2 things, as mentioned
above:
- Files created by FrontPage
- Extensions (programs) run by
FrontPage
More later.
Ed Abbott
