The front page of a newspaper features the biggest news stories of the day and is usually designed with a big red masthead and eye-catching pictures. The layout of the front page can give us a clue about the paper’s attitudes towards the news: a tabloid will tend to focus on celebrity gossip while a more serious paper will place more emphasis on national and international politics. A website can also have a front page which acts as a welcome mat or landing page for visitors, displaying links to key pages within the site and a search box.
Front-page is also an adjective describing something important enough to get prominent coverage in the media: “It’s not often I make front-page news, but this is a good thing.”
In 2014, three Jane Does who were sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage for allegedly facilitating their trafficking because of its business and editorial practices and the design of its website.[65] However, a federal judge ruled that the lawsuit failed to prove that Backpage had substantially contributed to the ads, so it was protected by CDA Section 230.
Front-page is also the name of a WYSIWYG Web editor from Microsoft, which was included with their Windows line of operating systems until 2006 and has since been replaced by two products: Expression Web and SharePoint Designer.