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Migrating from FrontPage, Part 1 – Updating to standards-compliant HTML

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

In this article, we’ll start the migration process by cleaning up the code so that it’s more in alignment with web standards and start moving style and formatting out of the web pages and into a cascading style sheet (CSS).

FrontPage helped bring WYSIWYG publishing to the World Wide Web. Since those early beginnings, however, the web has changed; countless new technologies have emerged, evolved, and slipped into obscurity. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has led the way in defining the web’s technological common ground, referred to as web standards. Websites that conform to W3C web standards are referred to as standards-compliant.

Over the next several articles, I’ll be helping you update your website; migrating away from legacy code and components to newer solutions, based on web standards.
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