Meet Microsoft’s Sway, a new Office app that will let you design beautiful web pages. If you remember the older days, Microsoft killed FrontPage, and now it’s realized that people needed a tool to design beautiful web pages and have brought back a similar but more beautiful web publishing application. Similar to FrontPage, Sway simply lets you design the web in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) method, it enables you to create beautiful and elegant web pages by offering a rich set of page templates and layouts. Best of all, it uses Azure cloud servers to suggest page layouts and renders content on the fly. You can also call Sway a combination of Microsoft OneNote and Microsoft FrontPage.
What Microsoft is trying to demonstrate here is that you don’t necessarily need to be a pro to create beautiful web pages, instead of meddling with CSS and HTML too much, Sway actually helps users by automatically formatting pictures and text with its smart web building algorithm and that is all done with its cloud servers. Instead of traditional one page webpages, Sway will let you create one page scrolling interfaces without a sweat, and that is extremely useful for startup businesses who wants to do web development in a more budget saving manner.
Sway will even let you grab content easily on the web so you don’t necessarily need to source them, which includes sourcing for online pictures, your YouTube videos, and integrated with OneDrive so whatever photos you’ve uploaded to the company’s cloud storage service, which will result in much lesser bandwidth on your web hosting server and rely on a reliable service – pretty much a free CDN (Content Distribution Network) service.
Microsoft is now accepting invitations for trying out Sway and is actively seeking feedback from users on creating the best web development tool. Sway will also be available for Android and iOS devices soon so you can build beautiful webpages on the go. Interested? Head on to the source link.
Source: Microsoft
