The front page (also known as the homepage) is the first thing that most visitors see when they visit a website. A customized WordPress front page can help convey the most important information about your site and distinguish it from other sites with similar content.
A newspaper’s front page usually contains the biggest stories of the day in the country that it is circulated in. It will also tease other stories inside the edition. For example, a cricket story about England’s Joe Root scoring a five wicket haul would make the front page of the paper even if it was not from the UK.
Front-page is also the name of a Microsoft WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool. It was formerly part of the Microsoft Office suite and included a set of proprietary server-side extensions called FrontPage Server Extensions. These extensions ran on the Web server and provided functionality for managing pages and enabling remote Web publishing. FrontPage was replaced in December 2006 by Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer.
Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer are targeted at Web design professionals to allow them to create feature-rich Web sites using the SharePoint platform. Both products are desktop applications. FrontPage has been discontinued by Microsoft and is no longer available for purchase or download. Microsoft is focusing on developing cloud-based versions of its Office software. This includes new tools that use a browser-based approach to enable users to create, edit and manage their data online.