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Designing
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Issue 18, Volume 1, 9th April 2001!
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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. Wassup @ AccessFP List
4. Guest Article or Tip - "PageTools"
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
something else included; I need your feedback to find out.
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This weeks article consists of PageTools Version 1.01 complete with a unique offer ONLY available to Ezine subscribers during the month of April
Tina Clarke
This FREE publication by AccessFP Bytes is sent ONLY to
people who have requested it. Helping YOU out there! Since
6th November 2000.
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2 GENERALLY SPEAKING
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UPDATES:
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For those of you who use the FREE Xenu's Link Sleuth
there is a new version available for download at
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FrontLook Chameleon
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Have you ever wanted to change the colour of your FrontPage Theme, but thought about the hours upon hours it would take to use an image editor and FrontPage's Theme editor to colorize dozens of separate graphics files? Not to mention the time is would take to learn how themes work. Truly a torture test of your know how and patience.
The answer to such a tedious task is the Theme Chameleon!!!
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Image Chameleon™ - for changing the colour of any gif or jpg image on your web without bringing up an image editor.
The FrontLook Chameleon™ is accessible through menu items in the FrontPage "Format" menu and the Image
Chameleon is also accessible from the "Picture" tool bar.
The Theme and Image Chameleon are implemented as
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DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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I was asked how to save a thumbnail to a floppy. Here's how.
When you make the thumbnail in fp and save the page a file
is then saved for example. Your big graphic is called
images/mypic.gif and a thumbnail is made called
images/mypic_small.gif
NOTE: when making a thumbnail the thumbnail will take on the
same name as the big graphic and insert _small as well.
Open up your A:/ drive and click File | Save As and navigate
to yoursite/images/mypic_small.gif then save.
You save it as you would any other file, you can check the
name of your file if your not sure by right clicking on it
(in FrontPage) and choosing image properties the path will
be visible in the pop up box.
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We know that to obtain single spacing while writing content one presses enter while holding down the shift key (Shift + Enter) However what happens if you want to reformat text already written?
1) Highlight what you want to become single-spaced. Do a Select All from the Edit menu if you want the entire document to be that way.
2) Click on Format, then Paragraph
3) Change the Spacing Before and Spacing After to zeros.
4) Click on Line Spacing, then Single
5) Click on OK
To make this work you must make the spacing before and after a zero you can also make it a 1, which will bring it slightly further apart.
If you want to point your htm files to a external CSS (cascading style sheet) file do the following.
Open up your page in FrontPage | Format | style sheet links |
Click either 'Selected pages(s)' or 'All pages' radio button
Click ADD button
Navigate to the style sheet (.css file) that you want linked on the page
Select the file and click OK. Then Click OK in the Link Style Sheet dialog box.
FP will add the code to the head section to link this style sheet.
The code looks similar to:
(<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">)
****Exclude brackets******
You could paste the code in the head tags section but for all
your pages using FrontPage to automate this chore makes
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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.
Linda Johnson our AccessFP Stalwart would like to announce
the below see if you can help her out.
I have recently been contracted by www.intellectua.com
to write an ebook on Starting a Career as a Software Trainer for a new website they are launching called Dream Jobs To Go. (not sure how much of a dream job this really is, but they seem to think so....LOL). Anyway, in this book I must include some
interviews with people who are currently employed or self-employed as software trainers, either full-time or as part-time tutors, etc., so I am soliciting volunteers to complete a questionnaire for me. If anyone would be interested in doing this for me (or forwarding my request on to any software trainers you know), I would greatly appreciate it. Obviously, the person and their website would be acknowledged in the book.
Please contact me at linda@personal-computer-tutor.com
if you are interested.
Steven Fredette of http://www.prowebsites.net
Told us about NBCi and their new requirements for Java, this is what they have to say about it.
"Changes made to the server code some month's ago now require certain changes to java applets when viewed through MSIE. To resolve the problem with your applets, you'll need to add the full path to the code base in the opening applet tag, as well as all image references within your applet." For those that are new this is about all Java Applets, not just Hover Buttons.
To add to this nugget of knowledge one of our other Linda's known as tlady
http://www.tlady.clara.net/Apps1/Apps1.htm
(Who happens to know one or two things about applets) told us where to find out more about servers requiring code bases for applets - Gagf's excellent help pages at:
http://pixslinger.tripod.com/graymatter2.htm
More next week from our motley 'crew' at the AccessFP List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPList
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4 Guest Article - "PageTools"
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AccessFP Ezine proudly presents PageTools Version 1.01 complete with a unique offer ONLY available to Ezine subscribers during the month of April. Alex Tushinsky of www.ltmod.com has kindly given us a tour of his New FrontPage Add-on that will make life much, much easier, not only that you can download a free, 14 day trial version of PageTools. If you decide to keep the program, as an AccessFP subscriber, you can purchase it online at www.ltmod.com for $18.71 (25% off the regular $24.95 price).
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PageTools is a set of four utilities that enhance the capabilities of Microsoft FrontPage. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how each one is used, what it does, and how it saves you precious time.
The first utility, called Template Copier allows users to set-up a unified look for their FrontPage web quickly and easily. Hey, I know what you're thinking - FrontPage already does this through Themes and Shared Borders. Although that's true, keep in mind that FrontPage will set-up colours, fonts, and other elements for you through the use of Themes / Shared Borders, but it won't make use of a complete layout that includes custom graphics, JavaScript's, or other elements such as tables, that you would like to include as part of every page in your site. Even if you purchase a theme, like the ones offered at paulsfrontpagethemes.com or outfront.net, you'll find yourself copying & pasting their template (which in turn uses their theme) from page to page. This is ok for a small site, but when you're dealing with a large project, it can become a chore really quickly.
Theme Copier eliminates that problem by automating the copy & paste process. Like most FrontPage developers, your first stop when creating a new site will probably be the Navigation View. This view allows you to set-up a diagram of how your visitors surf through your site. Based on that, FrontPage creates blank HTML documents for each page in the Navigation View. Once this is done, a theme is picked (if applicable), which automatically sets up colours, fonts, and some CSS elements, as well as prepares specific graphics to be used for buttons, page banners, bullets, etc.
The next step is to take one of these blank pages and turn into a complete layout, in many cases, combining custom graphics along with elements of the FrontPage theme. Tables are created to house the content, and Cascading Style Sheets are setup to control how certain HTML tags are handled. For example, I like to use "Justified" paragraphs, and generally set this up through CSS. At times also, there is an animation (Flash, or JavaScript, or DHTML) that is used as part of a logo. This would go into your template as well.
Now that the template is complete, with all common elements on the page, its time to test it in as many browsers as necessary to assure compatibility among different operating systems and browser versions.
Once the template has been found to have no errors, the next step will be to use Template Copier to clone all of the elements on our template page to the rest of the blank documents in our web. PageTools makes this easy by allowing you to select the template file, then letting you choose which pages you want to copy it to. Once your list is set-up, click the Apply button, and several seconds later, all of the pages you selected look exactly like your original template! The title and filename is preserved, but all other elements, including <HEAD> information are copied to the blank pages. All that's left is to add your content to each page, and publish the web!
FrontPage 98 allowed us to export files from a FrontPage web site down to our hard drive or floppy. While exporting content may not be something that you use everyday, it does come in handy. I manage several sites that utilize Microsoft Access databases. Once a week or so I like to create backups of the databases in the event something goes wrong. This is a practice that I have been performing for years, and when I first started working with FrontPage 2000, I realized that I could no longer export my MDB files! For a while I kept publishing entire webs just to get the databases, and then I wrote the Export Utility.
Export allows you to download any file within your web site and transfer it to your local hard drive or floppy. There are certain restricted files, such as those in the FPDB folder, or Active Server Pages that can not be exported using this utility. However, since the files that I generally back up are in the FPDB folder, I will show you a quick way of accomplishing the task:
Start FrontPage and open the web site you want to work with. Copy the database from the FPDB folder (or whatever folder you have set up for your database files) into your root folder. Using the export utility, select the destination path (your hard drive) and choose the file(s) you want to export from your FrontPage web. Several seconds later, the files are downloaded! Delete the copy you've made of the database, and close the web.
Theme Copier - This utility was designed for my FrontPage class that I teach at a nearby college. One of the topics of discussion in the class is building your own theme. Most students can never complete their theme in one evening, and many want to work on their theme from home. FrontPage does now allow you to copy or move themes from installation to installation, but using the Theme Copier you can copy and install themes between different installations of FrontPage.
Theme Copier only works with user installed themes, so you won't see "Blank" or "Artsy" in the menu. Using the utility, simply highlight the theme you want to copy, and click on the Copy Theme button. You will be asked for a destination drive / folder, and once selected, your theme is copied. When you get to your other computer, restart the Theme Copier utility and select the Install New Theme option. You'll be prompted for the drive / folder where your theme is saved. Theme Copier will verify that the directory contains a valid theme, then check to make sure that you are not overwriting anything that you already have installed, and then proceed to copy your theme and make it part of FrontPage. You'll need to restart FrontPage before you see your theme in the list under Format, Themes.
Flash SWF Import - Lots of developers are using Macromedia Flash to add animations and interactive content on their web sites. Macromedia Dreamweaver is really the only tool available that will natively incorporate SWF files into a web page and place all of the necessary code for Netscape and IE browsers within the HTML.
Using the Flash Import utility, you can pretty much do the same thing in FrontPage with a few simple steps. Position your cursor where you want your movie to appear. From the Flash SWF Import menu, select the SWF file you want to add to the page. Choose its height, width, and background colour properties, and click Apply. If the Import SWF file option was checked, then your Flash file will automatically be uploaded to your FrontPage web. After the operation is complete, simply save and refresh your document. You should see your Flash animation onscreen!
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I hope you enjoyed this brief tour of PageTools Version 1.01. You can download a free, 14-day trial version of PageTools from ZDNet, www.ltmod.com, and www.simtel.net If you decide to keep the program, as an AccessFP subscriber, you can purchase it online at www.ltmod.com for $18.71 (25% off the regular $24.95 price).
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If you know of a site that is worthy of being featured in AccessFP Bytes submit it today at:
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Featured Site-------Gohtm
http://www.gohtm.com/
BCL's Gohtm.com is a free service that provides instant document conversion into HTML. Both PC and Mac platforms are supported. Gohtm.com will take your document, and generate an accurate HTML representation of it, complete with the images (JPEG) and the hyperlinks. Bottom line? Your document's look and feel will be preserved.
Currently, Gohtm.com supports these source-document file formats:
* PDF (Portable Document Format)
* RTF (Rich Text Format)
* TXT (Simple Text Format)
* DOC (MSWord(R) Format)
* XLS (MSExcel(R) Format)
* PPT (MSPowerPoint(R) Format)
Tip: If you have a document in an unsupported file format, just convert/export it into one of the above supported formats. That way you can convert virtually any document, in any format, into HTML.
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****General Links****
guiStuff
http://www.guistuff.com/
Where can you find help for making the essentials of navigation?
Where can you find Tutorials and a Forum that help you put your graphics together?
Where can you find Templates of outstanding design that load quickly?
All this is at guiStuff. I'm awed, amazed and jealous! (Smile)
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First learn your:
Background Basics
http://www.efuse.com/Design/background-basics.html
and then you will need a FREE program:
Background Magic
http://www.boogiejack.com/backgroundmagic.html
Background Magic could become your most valuable web site design tool, or at least your favourite. It makes an artist out of everyone! It's easy to use - there are no complicated techniques to learn. Everything is a button click or simple slider adjustment, and it's all right there in plain view - no hidden menu's to access, no tricks, no joke! You can click a button can't you? Then YOU too can make professional quality backgrounds, left border style backgrounds, buttons, and banners - even email stationery. No artistic talent needed!
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FrontPage Experts
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FrontPage Newbies
http://accessfp.net/fpforumnewbie.htm
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How to create a FrontPage Poll
http://www.nuevosvalores.com/fptech/fppoll1.htm
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For our 'Spotlight on FrontPage', this week AccessFP Focuses on the best value for your site this week looking at Carts.
If you want to start selling goods or services on the internet then you probably need to add some sort of additional functionality to your website. I think this shopping cart might be the solution.
E-Mal's FREE E-COMMERCE SERVICE
http://www.mals-e.com/index.htm
There are two accounts standard and Premium which doesn't buy you more features, rather it offers easier Admin and is specifically designed for busy sites. (monthly fee $5.00 US payable 3 months in advance). Also you can directly integrate into the credit card payment gateways of Cybercash, Authorizenet, Internetsecure, Trustcommerce, Verisign Worldpay, Secpay and others.
On both accounts there is no limitation to the number of products you can have, the transactions you can process or the number of hits the cart gets from your site, No set-up fees for any service. There is no binding to a specific Merchant account for credit cards arranged through e-mal. If you want to get a feel for how the service is perceived by the people who actually use it then take some time to have a look around the User Forum.
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