About Web components in FrontPage
By using Web Components in Microsoft FrontPage, you can add a wide variety of features to your Web site, ranging from hit counters that register the number of visitors to a page, to photo galleries that display a collection of graphics.
You can choose from two types of Web components: author-time components or browse-time components.
Author-time components are tools that can make it easier to create and design Web pages. They are available in FrontPage. If you want to add an author-time component to your site
Browse-time components are available on Web sites located on Web servers running FrontPage Server Extensions from Microsoft, SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft, or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.