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AccessFP Bytes - The Bit in the middle!
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Designing
and crafting with FrontPage
Issue 14, Volume 1, 13th March 2001!
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Editor: Tina Clarke,
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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. Wassup @ AccessFP List
4. Guest Article or Tip - "P.O.D."
5. Sponsors
6. Featured Site of the week
7. Weekly Links and Resources
8. Subscription Management
9. Contact Information
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1. WELCOME FROM TINA
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Welcome to "AnyFrontPage Bytes - The Bit in the
middle". These weekly issues are the Lite version of
AccessFP Ezine containing snippets of news, links and
resources.
My aim with this Lite version is to bring you FrontPage
goodies, links and news that you can't do without each
week. If you have any feedback, suggestions, gripes or
compliments, please let me know I really would like your
feedback about the ezine's, what do you think of the
content? The layout? Do you want more of something or
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This weeks article consists of P.O.D Which means Personal Open Directory. Written by Tina Clarke (Editor)
Tina Clarke
This FREE publication by AccessFP Bytes is sent ONLY to
people who have requested it. Helping YOU out there! Since
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2 GENERALLY SPEAKING
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UPDATES:
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http://www.accessfp.net/themesetsca.htm
Free Theme-Pak 1&2 Full Colour Theme Catalogue
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Office XP: Corporate Preview Kits Are Now Available
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Get Them While They Last, quantities are limited, so order today.
Keep your organization on the cutting edge of technology. Be the first to experience the next version of Microsoft Office: Order the Office XP Professional with Microsoft FrontPage Corporate Preview Beta kit for $19.95 US. See how this new release of Office simplifies the way you work, enables collaboration for organizations of all sizes, and extends Office beyond the desktop.
What You'll Get in the Kit
The Office XP corporate preview kit includes the following:
Office XP Professional with Microsoft FrontPage® Corporate Preview Beta. Experience the newest versions of:
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook®
Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerPoint®
Microsoft FrontPage
Select MultiLanguage Packs.
The Office Product Guide, with detailed information about new and improved functionality.
A link to the online Office Activation Wizard.
These preview kits are intended for evaluation purposes only. Each kit can be installed on up to 10 computers.
There is a maximum limit of five kits per order.
Each unique installation requires activation through the online Office Activation Wizard.
There is no product support for the Corporate Preview Beta.
On August 31, 2001, the preview expires, reverting to a reduced-functionality mode. This means files created with the preview software can still be viewed but cannot be altered. To regain full functionality, customers will need to either purchase a license for Office XP or reinstall Office 2000. Complete instructions are provided in the kit.
If you have an MSDN® Universal subscription, you will automatically receive a corporate preview kit in March as part of your monthly shipment; TechNet Plus subscribers will receive their kits in the April shipment. Due to antipiracy technology being used in this preview beta, it cannot be made available on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page.
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HotMail Sharing Member Email Addresses
http://www.peacefire.org/hotmail/sharing-addresses.shtml
After receiving complaints from HotMail users about junk mail in accounts that had never been "publicised" anywhere, we found that HotMail was sharing its member email addresses with InfoSpace.com, which makes the addresses available on its Web site where they can be "harvested" by third parties, including spammers. The statement on the InfoSpace Web site -- "For privacy, we don't show the full email addresses of people listed in our directories" -- turned out not to be correct, since HotMail provides its users with a search interface that allows them to harvest the email addresses of users listed on InfoSpace, including other HotMail users. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ever wanted tables side by side?
In the left table, right-click, then:
Click Table Properties
Click the Style button
Click the Format button
Click Position
Click Left
Do the same for the other table, except specify 'right' if you want it over the other side of the page.
This may not work in Netscape as we are using absolute positioning. I don't have Netscape so I can't test it, however it looks ok in IE5. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This tip comes courtesy of
http://www.frontpagehowto.com/
Who deals expertly on issues to do with ASP, PWS, Databases and SQL. I recommend you pay a visit.
If you find your visitors are causing numerous double posts in your Discussion Forum provide the following hint in the right-hand pane and this should cut down on forum maintenance.
"HINT: Avoid a double post! After posting a new thread or responding to one, DO NOT click the refresh button on your browser toolbar! Instead, first click on an article (any article) so that it's contents show in this frame. THEN click your browsers refresh button. Thanks!"
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Find Clip Art for Every Occasion
http://dgl.microsoft.com/
Express yourself with clips, animations, and sounds from Microsoft Design Gallery Live. Featured clips for March include St. Patrick's Day designs, sports photographs, and places from around the world.
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3 Wassup @ AccessFP List
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Wassup at the AccessFP List? Find out every week here or join at the link above and find out for yourself.
Someone wanted to know where to find FrontPage Express (FPE). This was featured in a previous Ezine but it keeps coming up in the FP community so I'll repeat it here once more.
Microsoft is no longer supporting FrontPage Express (FPE) and it will no longer be available for download from the Microsoft site and have discontinued the Newsgroup.
You cannot use the Add/Remove programs tool in Control Panel to install FrontPage Express after Windows 98 second edition is installed. If you try to downgrade to an earlier version of IE 5, the same problem occurs. No custom install, no FPE. FPE does not come with Office 2000 this is a concern for many educational facilities and not a few others as well. There is a workaround solution however.
Take out an old Magazine disc that has IE 5.0 on it (or below) and do a search for this file!
Fpesetup.cab
Once you have found it, open it up with WinZip and extract all the files to a new directory of your choice, and then double click on the fpxpress.exe file in the directory you extracted all the files to and you will have a copy of FPE.
So you can have IE 5.5 and a free version of FrontPage!
NOTE: The 'file new' command and 'help' do not work with installing FPE in this manner. You are not going to miss the help so don't worry about it. For further help with FPE check out the FPE section on AccessFP.
http://accessfp.net/fpexpress.htm
As for the 'File new' command just make a blank.htm file and then click file open, open the blank.htm and make your page with it. It works just as good as 'File New'.
or there are these sites. (Disclaimer - I merely point out the urls)http://accessfp.net/fpexpress.htm (scroll to the bottom) More next week from our motley 'crew' at the AccessFP List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPList
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4 Guest Article - P.O.D
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Have you ever fancied your very own search engine? Ever wondered how to go about it? Well read on and found out.
Personal Open Directory (POD)
http://www.grohol.com/downloads/
The script is named Personal Open Directory (POD) and was written by John M. Grohol. There are Netscape and Dmoz versions.
This script can be seen working at http://www.virtualpromote.com/jwod/pod.cgi
To configure the script you will have to open up the cgi with FTP (using a third party FTP package such as WS_Lite) and work ONLY on the cgi bin. You must NOT touch the rest of the site or you will corrupt the FrontPage extensions. Or you can host it on another site that you can ftp to and tie it into your site via the navigation as per the following tip: This might be better anyway because it will rapidly fill up your hosting space, obtaining some free hosting would be a good idea.
Use a System Variable to Redirect to Another Page from the navigation bar.
http://www.accessfp.net/tip3.htm
Tip 7
For FP98.
Or as in the case of FrontPage 2000.
Use External Hyperlink.
http://www.accessfp.net/fp2k-tips.htm
Tip 5
You can use the Search engine in conjunction with the Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/
This will give you a head start with thousands of vetted URLs. The Directory can be downloaded to your own site and the format it works in is RDF (Resource Description Framework) To find out more see:
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/RDF-made-easy.html
With this you can make a bespoke directory (see above) however you must comply with the License agreement and acknowledge the ODP on your site.
To set all this up you must design a template with a space left for the directory using tables is the best solution.
Digital Windmill
http://www.digitalwindmill.com/
Has a sample of code that can be pasted into the space left for the directory. For this to work for users they must have JavaScript enabled in their browsers. Digital Windmill's script and server keeps the searching and generation of results up-to-date so you don't have to. You can tweak the look of the directory by using style sheets.
Did I mention all this is FREE? I highly recommend it!
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Theme-Pak delivers hundreds of professionally designed high impact, low bandwidth themes, site styles and templates for Microsoft® FrontPage® 98 or 2000 and NetObjects Fusion 3.0 - 5.0. Each theme or site style includes matched Page Banners, Buttons, Background, Bullets, Divider, Font and Table settings that will ensure colour and graphical continuity for your entire web site.
J-Bots 2000
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J-Bots Plus 2000 contains 50 components --all the components in J-Bots 2000, plus three component groups called: J-Bots Form ComponentsTM J-Bots Cookie ComponentsTM and J-Bots Image ComponentsTM
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6 FEATURED SITE OF THE WEEK
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If you know of a site that is worthy of being featured in AccessFP Bytes submit it today at:
Featuredbytes@accessfp.net
You must include the name, url and a description about the site and why you think it's a good resource to have. Along with your recommendation should be YOUR name and site url.
If your recommended site is featured it goes into a draw for in three months time and the winner will receive a TOP ad space in the monthly AccessFP Ezine.
Featured Site-------I was wondering who to feature and then Chris Pirillo of
http://www.lockergnome.com
sent me a link to Scobleizer's latest article, so that was this section sorted!
As regards the article, I agree with the basic premise that GUI does not prepare you for a life of web crafting if you use GUI programs solely from day one. However I would add this to the article. The trick is to ferret underneath all the hype of GUI and EXPERIMENT, experiment, experiment. Pick a project and learn, some learn faster some slower. What web crafting boils down to at the end of the day is:
#1 Have you enjoyed yourself?
#2 What have you learnt today?
#3 Always realise it's not the tools; it's the 'nut behind the wheel'. YOU, you make the difference, it all depends on YOUR drive, your talent and your will to 'Make it happen'. So use FrontPage as it's meant to be used, as a mere tool to YOUR imagination, once you feel confident start learning html etc etc etc.
http://scobleizer.manilasites.com/
Scobleizer evaluates the state of GUI Web building tools (and reveals his thoughts on the new FrontPage XP)
Read the article and investigate the examples put forward, this article is guaranteed to be thought provoking
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7 WEEKLY LINKS AND RESOURCES
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NOTE: New links appear here in AccessFP Bytes FIRST. Only after a week will they appear on the site. Get ahead of the game Today!
****General Links****
JustAddPromotion
http://www.richmediatech.com/justaddpromotion/index.asp?accessfp.net
With JustAddPromotion you can send professional-looking, custom-designed email ad promotions and announcements to your existing clientele. Now you can have the advantages enjoyed by major companies who spend mega-bucks to market their products.
***SPECIAL introductory price of £199***
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GnomeCONVENTION
http://www.gnomedex.com/
We're throwing the world's first GnomeCONVENTION and you've been invited! Register and mark your calendars for Gnomedex -- it's for curious computer users! We offer you the opportunity to hear industry leaders speak, to attend informational and entertaining events, to win some hardware and software, to visit vendors showcasing their consumer technology wares, and, of course -- the chance to meet people like yourself. Should you come? Well, if you're interested in technology -- this conference is for you. Register TODAY for a hefty discount! Bring a friend, drag your significant other along, or fly solo -- you're sure to make plenty of new pals while you're here.
Ed Note: If you don't know about Chris Pirillo and his famous newsletter lockergnome I suggest you sign up forthwith
You can do so via the lockergnome sign up box at http://www.accessfp.net/
he has just launched two other neat newsletters called Digital Media and Tech Specialist.
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Netscraft
http://uptime.netcraft.com/
We report a site's operating system, web server, and netblock owner together with, if available, a graphical view of the time since last reboot for each of the computers serving the site.
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****FrontPage Links****
FPUG
http://www.frontpageboston.com/present.htm
Check out these past presentations at the FrontPage Users Group for Boston. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Creating banners and buttons using PhotoDraw 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/column3.htm
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PhotoDraw 2000 Version 1 Idea Book
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/PDIdeaBk.htm
Microsoft PhotoDraw(tm) 2000 Idea Book, an illustrated HTML manual that contains step-by-step instructions for using PhotoDraw 2000.
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Photodraw Newsgroup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.photodraw.discussion
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Business Value of Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 and Microsoft Publisher 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/office/photodraw/bizvalue.htm
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PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 Tour
http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/photodraw/default.asp
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StoreFront 5.0 Adds Support for PayPal!
LaGarde is pleased to announce integrated support for PayPal's payment processing services in the StoreFront 5.0 software. Now merchants can have payments processed on-line in a secure environment with minimal fees.
http://accessfp.net_a/storefront.htm
LaGarde Seeks StoreFront 5.0 Site Examples for StoreFront Gallery.
Any StoreFront merchant or developer that has completed a StoreFront 5.0 site is encouraged to submit it to the StoreFront Gallery for placement on the StoreFront web site.
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For our 'Spotlight on FrontPage', this week AccessFP Focuses on Free demos or timed trials for FrontPage by third party companies or Microsoft.
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Ulead WebRazor Pro
http://www.webutilities.com/wr/wr_purch.htm
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PollWizard : Online poll creation for FrontPage 2000
http://office-power.com/products/pollwizard/default.htm
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SiteTagger from Office Power
http://office-power.com/products/stagger/ver1/index.htm
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QuickCopy from Office Power
http://office-power.com/products/quickcopy/index.htm
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SylvanMaps.Net Trial for FrontPage 2000
http://www.sylvanmaps.com/play!.htm
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PVCS Version Manager 6.6 for FrontPage
http://www.merant.com/products/pvcs/downloads/index.asp
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The J-Bots Plus 2000 Demo
http://www.accessfp.net/jbotsca.htm
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Meta Tag Maker 2000 Demo
http://www.accessfp.net/jbotsca.htm
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Themes Installer
http://www.enborne.com/downloads/index.htm
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KISSfp 2.1
http://www.kissfp.ch/download.html
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FREE TRIAL: PDG SHOPPING CART COMPONENT
http://www.pdgsoft.com/frontpage
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FREE TRIAL: MICROSOFT PHOTODRAW 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/photodraw/download.htm
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ClipTrakkerT v1.1 by Silicon Prairie Software (FREE Trial)
http://www.cliptrakker.com/
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WebCharts by GreenPoint (Trial for FrontPage 2000)
http://www.gpoint.com/WebCharts/Portal/FrontPage.htm
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EasyT Online Subject V1.0 by Global Presence
http://www.globalpresence.com.au/easyt
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FRONTPAGE 2000 45-DAY TRIAL and Bonus Pack
http://microsoft.com/uk/office/frontpage/trial.htm
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JustAddCommerce FrontPage 2000 FREE Demo (V 4.0.2d)
http://www.richmediatech.com/web/download/index.asp
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HiSoftware Products
All Trials are of Complete features there are no Limitations. All trials will time out in 15 Days.
http://www.hisoftware.com/trialware2.htm?accessfp.net
HiSoftware JTagGen 5.0 - Trial 6MB new
Hi-Stats Log Analysis Solution - Trial 5.9 mb new
HiSoftware's metaPackager™ - Trial 8.5mb new
TagGen™ for FrontPage -Trial 4370k
Hi-Verify™ for FrontPage - Trial 4360k
Hi-Position™ for FrontPage® 98/2000 - Trial 4464k
Hi-Visibility™ for FrontPage® 98/2000 - Trial 4385k
LinkResearch™ for FrontPage 2000 & 98 3.2 mb
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Stream Anywhere
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/products/NewShowProduct.asp?PID=122
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Auscomp eNavigator Suite - V.6.5
http://www.auscomp.com/jnavigator.html
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The Buster Group ActiveCalendar 2000 new
http://www.thebustergroup.com/portal.htm
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CartIt NT 3.0
http://www.cartit.com/dynamic/siteripper/cartitnt3.html
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CartIt UNIX 4.0
http://www.cartit.com/dynamic/siteripper/cartitunix4.html
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CommerceMonkey (FREE Add-on)
http://www.cartit.com/dynamic/siteripper/download_pre_monkey.html
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SecuredForm
http://www.securedform.com/
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