FrontPage 2002 provides you with features to help you manage your Web site.

Task and file management

There are a number of features available for managing tasks and files in FrontPage 2002.

• Task and file assignment   You can create tasks to track work that needs to be done for your Web site, assign a task to a person or workgroup, prioritize the importance of a task, and monitor task status. You can associate a task with a file (or the entire Web site). You can also assign a file to a person or workgroup without creating a task for that file.
• Detailed file properties   You can manage your Web site more effectively by adding detailed properties to files, such as a title, or a comment indicating work that needs to be done.
• Categories   You can use categories in FrontPage to organize files into logical groups. For example, you could classify all of the shopping-related files in your Web site in categories called Catalog and Products. You can use built-in categories like Business, Expense Report, and In Process, or create your own like Family Tree or Vacation Photos. You can also manage Web sites based on SharePoint Team Services by using categories.

Reports

FrontPage 2002 reports make it easy to see how your Web site is being used, and to filter and analyze that information.

• Solve problems   You can create reports that show which pages will download slowly, display site summaries (such as a listing of new files), show files by category, and indicate which files in your Web site aren't linked to any other files. You can automatically update your links, too.
• Analyze usage   Usage Analysis Reports show you who visits your site and which pages are getting the most hits. You can generate daily, weekly, or monthly reports that can be exported to HTML or Microsoft Excel. You can also filter these reports to see the exact information that you want.

Hyperlink management

If any hyperlinks in your Web site point to a file that has been moved or deleted, or specify an incorrect URL or file name, you can use the following views to help clarify the problem:

• Navigation view   Gives a graphical overview of how your Web site is organized, including how pages are linked, and also allows you to build link bars based on your Web site's navigation structure.
• Hyperlinks view   Shows a graphical representation of the hyperlinks to and from any file in your Web site, including graphics, style sheets, scripts, and linked Microsoft Office documents. You can quickly identify all hyperlinks, including broken and external ones.
• Reports view   Shows the number of linked files, unlinked files, broken links, external links, and internal links.

  Notes

  • You can also create lists of hyperlinks that point to the most popular pages in your Web site. Top 10 Lists link to the Top 10 pages on your site by number of visited pages, referring domains, referring URLs, search strings, site visitors, and more.
  • Whenever you rename a file in your Web site, or move a file to a subfolder, FrontPage checks to see whether there are any hyperlinks to the file. If there are, FrontPage will update the hyperlinks with the new file name or location.

Security and source control

You can help control who can access and edit your web site with the following features:

• User accounts and roles   User accounts help you control how users access the Web site. Users can be assigned to groups with various permissions (on Web servers running Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions or earlier), or assigned roles with varying degrees of access to the site (on Web servers running FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services). You can create accounts that allow access to the Web site only, or you can use existing network server or domain accounts.
• Using subwebs   A subweb is a complete Web site located in a subfolder of the root Web site or another subweb. Just like a root Web site, a subweb is based on SharePoint Team Services or FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. Subwebs can be used to manage the folder structure of the files in your Web site, and also set limitations on who can access those files. Each subweb can be maintained by a different owner and have separate security settings from the parent Web site.
• Source control   Microsoft FrontPage provides built-in source control that helps ensure only one person at a time can edit a file. You can enable source control if you have administrator privileges and your Web server is running FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services.