The front page of a newspaper contains major or headline news stories and teases what else is inside the edition. The term front-page can also be used to describe an article that is very important or interesting in other contexts.
For example, the birth of a polar bear’s cub made front-page news in several countries. Likewise, a player’s performance at the World Cup can be considered front-page news. In a political context, the president’s decision to withdraw troops from Iraq could be described as front-page news.
Moreover, the New York Times reported that “The debt ceiling is front-page news in most households.” The phrase also means something that is widely discussed and debated; for example, the debt ceiling is an issue that has been talked about extensively by politicians, journalists, and others.
In the early 2000s, Microsoft’s FrontPage software was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration program. It was a part of the Office suite until 2006, when it was superseded by two programs: SharePoint Designer and Expression Web. FrontPage required a set of server-side extensions originally known as IIS Extensions and then renamed FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to function.
FPSE provided features such as Intellisense, a form of autocompletion that suggests tags and properties for the code being edited in Code View and the ability to create snippets of frequently used code so that it can be quickly inserted into pages or an entire Web site. FrontPage also included a Split View feature that allows the user to toggle between Design and Code views without having to close and then reopen the file.
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