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Vermeer was founded in April 1994 in Cambridge, MA, for the purpose of pioneering visual, standards-based Web publishing tools that provide end-users and Internet professionals with the ability to create and maintain compelling web sites without programming. The FrontPage publishing application enables a significantly broader range of users to actively participate in the Internet publishing revolution.
A Commitment to Open Standards and Third-Party Interfaces
The Frontpage architecture is an essential component of a Web-based on-line information service; yet components from other vendors can remain a part of the production environment. Frontpage supports open standards through its membership in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Frontpage's tools will enable Web information systems to include sophisticated interactive forms and graphics, integrate with text search engines, support Email messaging and notification, and support emerging security and electronic payment models. Frontpage is committed to providing solutions that do not lock customers into proprietary or nonstandard applications or services on the Internet. Frontpage-developed on-line services will be fully browsable by WWW clients, such as Microsoft Internet Assistant, NCSA Mosaic, Spyglass Mosaic, and Netscape Navigator, and deployable on popular free and commercial Web servers.
Mosaic and the World Wide Web have fueled the Internet's explosive growth during the past three years. Today, a rapidly increasing number of businesses and individuals are turning to the Web and Mosaic-based information delivery systems to gain competitive advantage. But until the advent of Web authoring tools, developing and maintaining these sophisticated client/server information systems on LANs and global networks has been a time-consuming job requiring specialized programming talent.
That's why Frontpage is pioneering the concept of "webtop publishing." With webtop publishing, client/server development tools and authoring environments specifically designed to make it easy to deploy and maintain Web services eliminate the need for programming. These visual tools put the power of Web publishing in the hands of end-users, managers and professionals. Using Frontpage's Web authoring tools, anyone can easily create, maintain and evolve Web-based information systems, directories, storefronts, catalogs, and commercial transaction systems.
State-of-the-art Web authoring tools should provide users such capabilities as:
By relying on easy-to-use Web authoring and publishing tools, users gain a practical way to tap the virtually unlimited opportunities of bringing information and electronic commerce to the Web, with no more difficulty than using a spreadsheet.