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| In
FrontPage 98, you can add sound that will have the option for your guests
to turn it on or off. Here's how:
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| FrontPage 2000 makes it easy to capture colors that are
displayed elsewhere on your monitor. When you choose More Colors from the program's various Color dropdown menus, the More Colors dialog box appears. Here, you can click on the Select button to access the eyedropper tool. Use the eyedropper to click on any onscreen color, and FrontPage brings that color into the dialog box. In FrontPage 98, however, there is no built-in feature for capturing colors. However, you can use the handy (and free) Pixie program to achieve the same result. This program, which you can download from http://natty.port5.com/pixie.html, displays the color values of any pixel you put the mouse pointer on. [Top] |
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Features
that require FrontPage 98 server extensions:
Features that require FrontPage 2000 server extensions:
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tip will only work in IE5 and above]
To create an Icon that will appear when some-one bookmarks your site, you will need to create an Icon that is 16 pixels square. You can take an existing image and make it in to a Favicon image by using this free tool: FavIcon Generator. Once you have create your Icon, name it favicon.ico and insert it into the root directory of your web site. This is where your Index.html resides. Now, once some-one chooses to bookmark your site, Internet Explorer will look for the favicon.ico in your root directory and attach that Icon to the favorites. [Top] |
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| [FP98]
Put all the buttons in their own separate page, then in each of the pages,
go to INSERT, FRONTPAGE COMPONENT, and choose INCLUDE PAGE, then specify
the button page. Once all the pages are set up with the "include
page", each time you change the button page it will change in each of
the other pages. [Top] |
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FrontPage makes it easy to create frames pages using templates in
which the navigation between frames is already set up for you.
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| After you create a frames page, you must set the initial page to display in each frame when the page is viewed in a
browser, otherwise, it will display empty frames. If you've just used the Contents template to create your frames page,
you'll see that each frame contains a button that says Set Initial Page. Click the button, and navigate to the page you want displayed in
that frame. Then, just click OK. [Top] |
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Navigation
is always a good idea when exploring Web pages. Here's how it's created:
Note: If you add a navigation bar to a page that uses a shared border, the change will affect all pages using that border. [Top] |
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| When
you choose which hyperlinks to add you can specify individual pages.You
can go back and exclude specific pages from the navigation bar, but it
does take a few extra steps. To exclude a page from a navigation bar (when
you've selected the other pages on the same level), switch to Navigation
View. Right-click the page you want to keep out of the navigation bar, and
clear the Included In Navigation Bars check box on the shortcut
menu. Note: If you change a navigation bar in a shared border, the change will affect all pages using that border. [Top] |
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| Once you've placed a navigation bar on a web page, you're not stuck
with it the way it is. If you decide you'd rather have it displayed vertically, running down the side of the page, rather than
horizontally, it's easy to change it. In Page View, double-click the navigation bar. Select Vertical under
Orientation And Appearance. Click OK. Note: If you change a navigation bar in a shared border, the change will affect all pages using that border. [Top] |
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| If someone looking at your Web page wants to jump to a
particular point in a page, you should make it easy for them to do so. By creating a
bookmark, you can allow your visitors to jump to the relevant part of the
page. Just like this page, I give you a certain topic to choose from and
then I have made an anchor link (bookmark) so that you can click to that
specific topics content. Here's how it's created:
In Page View, position the insertion point where you want to create a bookmark, or select the relevant text. Click Insert, Bookmark. Type the name of the bookmark in the Bookmark Name box. Click OK. [Top] |
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Insert a hyperlink at the top of the
page, so users can jump directly to that section. Here's how:
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You can select three different colors:
one for a link that hasn't been selected, one for a link that is currently selected, and one for a link that has already been
selected. Here's how:
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When you've surfed around
the Web and back a few times, most sites start to look alike. Make yours
stand out by jazzing up your hyperlinks. It's easy to enhance a link so
that when visitors position their mouse pointer over the text, it
changes font. Let's make our hyperlinks turn bold and red. In Page View, right-click the page and click Page Properties on the shortcut menu. Click the Background tab. Under Formatting, select the Enable Hyperlink Rollover Effects check box. Click Rollover Style and choose the options you want--in this case, red and bold. Click OK. Note: You cannot add these effects if the page uses a theme. [Top] |
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| Once you've got an entire web designed, it can get pretty complex.
It's difficult to remember on which page a particular phrase or block of text appears.
Or, if you've discovered that you misspelled a word in the entire web,
luckily FrontPage makes it easy to search for text throughout an entire web.
Switch to Folders View. Click Edit, Find. If you want to search the entire web, click All Pages, or to search only particular pages, click
Selected Pages. Type the text you want to search for in the Find What box. Click Find.
FrontPage will search and display the pages in which the text appears. To open a page to fix the error, double-click that page in the list. [Top] |
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| If you're searching so that
you can correct a spelling error or replace text, there's no need to search and then manually fix your mistake. Simply use the Find and
Replace feature, and correct your error automatically! Switch to Folders View. Click Edit, Replace. If you want to search the entire web, click All Pages, or to search only particular pages, click Selected Pages. Type the text you want to search for in the Find What box. Type the replacement text in the Replace With box. Click Find. FrontPage will search and display the pages in which the text appears. Double-click the first page in the list. You'll see the text highlighted. Click Replace All to fix all the misspelled names in one fell swoop. [Top] |
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| FrontPage
makes it easy to convert all of your photo's to black and white.
Here's how:
In Page View, click the picture. Select View, Toolbars, Pictures to display the Pictures toolbar. Click Black And White on the toolbar. [Top] |
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| In Page View, right-click the page and click Page Properties on the
shortcut menu. Select the Background tab. Select a color in the Background box, and click OK. [Top] |
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| You're looking at your Web site using the Navigation or Hyperlinks
view, but your screen is also cluttered by that Folders List (not to be confused with the Folders view). So you look in the corner of the
Folders List for that handy little ""X"" that usually lets you close a given screen or program. No such luck. But getting rid of the Folders
List is really quite simple. Check your toolbar at the top of the screen. There's an icon--about the fifth from the left--called Folders
List. (You can tell that you have the right one by holding your cursor over the icon. A context-sensitive pop-up box that says Folders List
should appear.) Click this icon once, and the Folders List will disappear. Want to get it back? Simply click the Folders List icon
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| Let's say that you were tinkering with Web design long before you
invested in FrontPage. And say you came up with a pretty nice Web page that you'd like to incorporate into the Web site that you're now
building with FrontPage. Shouldn't be a problem. Just follow these simple steps:
First, you need to create a place to put the Web page you've built.
Let's say that you want it to be the new home page of the Web site you're developing with FrontPage. Go to the Navigation view and locate
the icon called Home Page. (It's the one with the little house on it. Cute, huh?) Double-click the Home Page icon. You'll notice that two
different things change on your screen. First, you're no longer in Navigation view; you've switched to the Page view. Second, you'll see
some little yellow icons on your screen--one says ""body"" and the other says ""/body"". These are HTML tags; your Web page will go between these
tags. Next, select Insert, File. Browse through your hard drive until you find the Web page that you had created previously, the one that [Top] |
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| You're just editing your home page when you suddenly think of
something you need to add to another page of your site. So you open that second page and make the necessary changes. Ah! What happened to the home page? To jump back to it quickly and easily, go to the Window menu. There you'll see a list of all the pages that are open. Select
the home page, and you'll be back to work in no time. [Top] |
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| When you were in school, your teacher always told you to write an
outline before you started writing a paper. You may not have listened then, but you really should take her advice now: It's wise to map out
your Web site before you start building it. One way to do that is-essentially--to create an outline of the site using the Navigation
view. Here's how. First, you need an idea of what you want your Web site to be about. (Sounds simple, I know, but bear with me here.) Let's say, for example, that your Web site is all about your family. So the home page--that's the main page and the first one that your visitors will probably see--leads to all the other pages. You've decided that you want one of these pages to be about vacations, one about the kids, and one about the pets. Keep all that in mind as you go through these steps. Now, go to the Navigation view and select File, New, Page. A new page, called New Page 1, will appear under the Home Page icon. That means that you'll want your visitors to link to this page directly from the home page. Let's say that that's your page about vacations. Now you'll need to add two more pages--one for the kids and one for the pets. There may be pages that should be under these new pages. Let's say that each of your three kids wants his or her own page. So the kids' page should have three pages under it. Go to one of the new pages--it doesn't matter which since you haven't named them yet--and right-click on it. From the pop-up menu that appears, choose New Page. A new page will now appear one level down. Add two more so you have a total of three. To avoid confusion, you'll want to go back and name each of these pages. Click on the name--that's New Page 1, New Page 2, etc.--of each page. Highlight the name and then type in your own. When you're ready to start working on your site, you can just double-click on the pages you've created in this outline and get right to work! Your teacher would be proud. (Ah, shucks.) [Top] |
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| You click on a pull-down menu, looking for that function that you know
should be there, but you just can't find it. But if you look at the bottom of the menu, you'll see a double arrow pointing down. Hold your
cursor over that double arrow for just a second and the menu will automatically expand.
If you tried to get your menu to automatically expand but it just didn't work. Instead, you had to click on
the double arrow to manually expand the menu. If you want the menu to expand automatically, follow these simple steps.
First, select View, Toolbars, Customize. In the Customize dialog box,
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The
following features require the FrontPage Server Extensions:
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Go to the FrontPage program root directory (usually C:\Program
Files\Microsoft FrontPage). Under that, create a directory named bots.
Then under the bots directory create a directory named fpcount. So you
should have directories set up like the following:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\bots\fpcount 2. In the fpcount directory you just created copy the following files from the FrontPage CD. fpcount.inf which can be found in the cdrom:\FrontPg\fpsdk20\WebBot\fpcount\misc\ directory, and the files: fpcntsrv.dll which can be found in the cdrom:\FrontPg\fpsdk20\WebBot\fpcount\winbin\ directory. 3. Switch to Folder View. 4. Then copy the fpcount.exe file (found in the cdrom:\FrontPg\fpsdk20\WebBot\fpcount\winbin\ directory) into the web's cgi-bin and make sure the cgi-bin is executable (right click on the folder in the FrontPage explorer and go to properties). 5. Then select tools--Recalculate Hyperlinks. You now should be able to go into the FrontPage editor and select insert--webbot component--hit counter. [Top] |
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To give your hyperlinks some flare. Try giving
them a colorful rollover effect. When your visitors mouse-over your
hyperlink it will automatically change colors. Here's how:
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If
you find that you usually work on the same web until it's completed, you
can set Microsoft FrontPage to automatically open the last web you worked
on when you start FrontPage.
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You can create an automatically generated table of
contents based on the navigation structure of your web, and pages with
hyperlinks that are not included in the navigation structure. A site
visitor browsing your web can click any entry in the table to jump to that
page or file.
Notes:
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This error notes that you are running out of
space. You may have several megabytes of space showing, but the
FrontPage server extensions carry a lot of baggage. The error that you
will receive looks like this:
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A picture of a breathtaking sunset may be worth a thousand words. But
adding just a brief description (like, "view from my vacation villa") on top of an image can make it worth, well, a thousand and five words. Fortunately, adding text atop a FrontPage graphic is easy. Start by clicking the graphic image to select it. Then, click the Text button on the Pictures toolbar (the button that looks like the letter A) to insert a box with a blinking cursor on the image. Type your message and click outside the text box. You can use any of FrontPage's text-formatting tools and commands to format text you place on an image. And you can resize the text box by clicking and dragging its handles. Also, you can move the text box anywhere on the image by clicking it and dragging. If you look at the HTML code associated with the text, you'll see that FrontPage creates it as an image map. Not surprisingly, you can hyperlink this text box to one URL and the image to a totally different URL. [Top] |
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Adding large photos to your page can cost your
guests long load times. Instead, make a thumbnail of the photo and
add the larger photo to a linked page. This way, you give your guest
the choice of viewing the larger photo at a click and the benefit of
shorter load times when accessing your page. Using FrontPage, it couldn't
be easier to make thumbnails of your photos, here's how:
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When working with a list, you can change
the style of the bullets from round, square or hollow. This is done
limply by placing your cursor inside the list that you would like to
change. Choose Format> Bullets and Numbering>Click the Plain
Bullets tab. The Window that is highlighted is the style of bullet that
you are currently using. To change the style, simply click into the
window of choice, then click OK.
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If you change your page frequently and you need to
ensure that your visitors are seeing the most current change, then you can
configure your pages to force the browser to always load the page from the
server and not the local cache. Here's how:
Either of the tags listed below will do the trick. Just simply add one of the lines between each page's <head> and </head> tags:
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While in design view, select Layout Tables and Cells from the Tables menu in the toolbar. This opens the document window to the right where you can draw and set the properties of tables and cells. Select Insert Layout Cell. The default properties are 'inline', height and width at 75px, and 'after selection'. It should look like Figure 2 below. Select Cell Formatting and under Cell Properties and Borders, set the width to '1', color black and apply to all borders. The cell now looks like Figure 1 below when deselected (by clicking a blank area of the page). Select the cell border by clicking on it. It will now look like Figure 2. Then select Cell Corners and Shadows from the document window. The defaults settings are 20w, 20h, white background color, black border color. Apply to all corners. It should look like Figure 3 below. To enlarge your cell, just simply select a side (by clicking it) that you would like to enlarge and drag it to the desired size (as shown in Figure 4 & 5).
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By using Reveal Tags view in FrontPage 2003 (Figure #1), you can quickly
identify duplicate tags, missing end tags or even find improper nesting. Once
you identify the problem, all you would do is click on the tag in question and
switch to CODE view (Figure #2). The selection will already be highlighted for
you so that you can easily make the necessary change(s). To troubleshoot your
web pages using Reveal Tags View:
Once you are done working with this feature, simply go back to View>> Reveal
Tags and click Reveal Tags again to return to normal view in DESIGN View (
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Over time, your files that are not linked can just be taking up valuable space.
In FP 2003, identifying these unlinked files is very easy. Here's how: Go to View>> Reports>> Problems>> Unlinked Files. You will now see a list of files that are not linked to your web. As you scroll the list, you can double click the file to view it and then if you determine that this file is no longer needed, just simply right click it and select Delete.
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FrontPage 2003 helps manage your Web site with the use of top ten lists. As long
as you have Server Extensions or SharePoint installed, you can obtain
information from the following categories:
By using the above information, you can better understand where your visitors
come from and where they are going so that you can better identify the pages
that need modification in order to increase these numbers.
Once you have inserted the list in to your Web page, publish the page to the Web to view the selected information. All of the gathered information can be exported to an Excel spread sheet for further analysis. [Top] |
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