Installing a Web Designer Development Environment On Windows

Here are the typical requirements for a development environment. Before you can work with Web Designer, you must:

1.	Install one of the supported databases on the computer that acts as the database server.

2.	Install Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft Component Services (COM+) on the computer that acts as the web server.

For development and test purposes, you can also install the web server software and transaction server on your development computer.

3.	On the web server, install Microsoft Installer utility (MSI).

NOTE: IIS and Component Services are included in current Windows versions. In Windows XP Professional Edition, COM+ is installed automatically and is called: Component Services. For each development computer, you must:

•Have access to the database server.

•Install USoft Series, including the Microsoft XML parser. This is described in the USoft Setup help, accessible from the Start menu.

•Register and configure the USoft Page Engine.

•You may also need web authoring tools or content management tools to embed web pages in your web site.

You are required to use a web browser such as Internet Explorer 8 or higher, or the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Internet Explorer versions older than version 7 are not supported. This is to ensure that colors and layout are optimized, because these aspects of a web page are defined in cascading style sheets. Also, JavaScript must be enabled.