The front-page is the page or section of a newspaper, magazine or other publication where major or headline news stories appear. The term may also refer to the first page of a website, blog or other online publication where new and updated content is usually posted.
When used in the context of a newspaper, the front-page typically features stories that are nationally or internationally significant and teases what else is inside the edition of the paper. The back-page is where more locally relevant or less important stories are placed.
In 2014, three Jane Does who were sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage for posting ads that offered them for sex. The lawsuit alleged that the site facilitated sex trafficking, but a federal court ruled that the ad-posting activities were traditional publisher functions regarding third-party content and thus protected by CDA Section 230.
Backpage later settled with the plaintiffs in 2017 and agreed to modify its practices. In addition, the company agreed to pay the plaintiffs a total of $7 million in damages and penalties.
FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and Web site administration program from Microsoft that was included in the Office suite of programs until 2006. In 2006, Microsoft announced that FrontPage would be superseded by two separate products. Microsoft SharePoint Designer enables business professionals to design SharePoint-based applications and Microsoft Expression Web is a tool for the creation of feature-rich Web sites. FrontPage includes a variety of tools designed to help make it easier for users without programming experience to create and manage Web pages and Web sites. These include Intellisense, a form of autocompletion that suggests tags and properties for code being edited in Code View and Code Snippets, which allow users to store frequently-used chunks of code for quick access when needed.