New Advanced FrontLook Site Search Engine for Microsoft FrontPage Web Sites

Market Wire, September, 2003

The new FrontLook Site Search Engine from DPA Software makes it easy for users of Microsoft FrontPage to set up a professional site search engine on their own site that's consistent with its look and feel. The add-in package for FrontPage is inexpensive ($39.95), easy to use, and offers advanced search features that return relevant results, akin to leading external site search engine services, but without the monthly fees.

"Most Webmasters need a professional site search engine to help viewers locate site information without leaving their site or exposing them to the annoying ads often found on external search engines," said DPA Software founder David Pfeiffer.

The FrontLook Site Search Engine advances the built- in capabilities of the FrontPage Search Component. "Webmasters can now easily control what pages are searched, format the font and table styles of the results page to match the style of their site, and provide visitors professional result summaries with page links," continued Pfeiffer.

The package includes a simple dialog interface for quick setup. The Search Areas Editor lets Webmasters set up multiple search areas, or sets of pages with a common theme, and determine what pages are included in each. Visitors then choose search areas from a pull-down menu to get targeted search results. The Search Page Insert Dialog inserts one or more main search pages on a site. The Quick Search Insert Dialog inserts a mini-search-form on any page. This allows visitors to initiate a search from any page, which then takes them to the main search page to view and refine their results.

The FrontLook Site Search Engine supports both Boolean and exact matches of text and keyword meta-tags. The visitor controls page navigation, number of results per page, sort order (relevance, page title), search area and search type. The search engine can be configured using Microsoft FrontPage 2000, 2002 or 2003 and runs on a Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) server 4.0 or greater running Active Server Pages (ASP).

FrontPage users may download a free, 30-day trial demo from the FrontLook.com download page. The demo limits the number of search areas and number of pages in each search area.

About DPA Software:

Founded in 1990, DPA Software develops companion software for major graphics applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft FrontPage. For more information, call (262) 968-1940, email info@frontlook.com, or visit www.frontlook.com.

Note: A comparison of the FrontLook Site Search Engine, FrontPage Search and external site search services is available: http://www.frontlook.com/flsse/comparison.asp

FrontLook and FrontLook Site Search Engine are trademarks of DPA Software. Microsoft, FrontPage and Windows are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

DPA Software:
David Pfeiffer
President
(262) 968-1940
davidmp@frontlook.com

PR:
Michelle Moody
Moody & Associates
(214) 363-3460
michellemoody@charter.net