The easiest option is to design a page with pure HTML. You either use the text editor in the BSP development environment (see also the documentation on the Web Application Builder) and design the page textually. This presupposes a good knowledge of HTML and it is usually a lengthy process. The advantage of it is: script can be added immediately to the correct parts of the page. Moreover, the Web Application Builder in the development environment has a preview function so that you can check the static layout of a page at any time.

A more elegant solution is to design a page with a design tool such as AdobeGoLive5.0, Dreamweaver 4.0, Frontpage and so on. The SAP Web Application Server lets you check in Web pages created with such tools and directly edit such pages managed on the server. This is done by means of the WebDAV access of the SAP Web Application Server (see also Using External Tools). WebDAV is supported by the above-mentioned tools (Frontpage together with the WebFolders). After check-in, you can add script to the pages. If the pages checked in to the server are edited again using the tool, you should flag the server-side script parts so that a designer can recognize them as such.