Internet Products from Microsoft

Microsoft Internet Explorer - it's a free, downloadable browser developed for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, or Macintosh systems. First, download Internet Explorer to gain the best viewing experience, connect to the Internet, and then check out how other businesses are marketing themselves on the Web.

Microsoft FrontPage: This application provides users with a fast and easy way to develop and maintain high-quality web sites without having to understand programming. Its client/server architecture supports authoring, scripting, and management of a web site over the Internet, across a LAN, or even on a personal workstation.

The Internet Assistants for Microsoft Office are free add-ins to the Microsoft Office family of applications that help growing businesses create and edit documents for the Web quickly and easily.

Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word: Download this free tool to create great-looking Web documents right from within Microsoft Word. Just save as HTML and it converts text, graphics, and tables to HTML. Use Internet Assistant's easy-to-use interface to add formatting like Marquee text, In-line Video, and background sounds.

Internet Assistant for Microsoft Excel: Download this free tool to automatically convert a range of cells in an Excel spreadsheet to an HTML table, complete with background colors.

Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint: Download this free tool to automatically convert Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows into exciting Internet presentations. This tool converts slides to .gif images and notes pages to corresponding HTML files. It also adds navigation buttons and converts interactive slide settings to the appropriate hyperlinks.

Microsoft Office Family of Viewers: Sometimes, converting files to HTML isn't the best way to get your information across. The Microsoft Office Family of Viewers are no-charge, freely distributable applications that let Microsoft Office users share their files with more people than ever before. Post Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in full up on the Web.

And finally to handle all the customer traffic to your web site, you'll want to host your web site on Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft's high-performance, secure, and extensible Internet server based on Windows NT Server.

If you choose to use an online service, try MSN [The Microsoft Network] which provides easy Internet access, plus lots of content and services from many companies that cannot be found on the Internet.