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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. Wassup @ AccessFP List
4. Guest Article or Tip - "FAQs/Tips 4 Images"
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
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something else included; I need your feedback to find out.
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This weeks article consists of FAQs/Tips 4 Images 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
6th November 2000.
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2 GENERALLY SPEAKING
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UPDATES:
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MySearch For Sites Hosted on Windows NT or Windows 2000.
http://www.frontpagecommerce.com/mysearch.htm?accessfp
You never have to worry about Index server issues.
Unlike the FrontPage SearchBot, you can customize the look and feel of the MySearch form any way you want. You can easily alter the results page, add images, text, and change colours.
Unlike the FrontPage SearchBot, you can search using the Boolean operators AND and OR and NOT in the same search
you can also group search terms using parentheses ( ) as search for phrases. You can search on HTML, HTM and ASP file types.
Results page shows total records returned at the top of page
Results returns 15 records per page
Results shows what page user is on at top and links to the other pages at bottom
The links to returned records are named by the Title of the page. If no title is present, the file name will be used.
You have the option of adding a description to the page. This description is not shown by web browsers (view source will show it) by will be listed in the returned results beneath the file Title. If you have a content rich site, this allows the user to get a more detailed idea of the page other than the search results.
The search can either be limited to one (1) folder or the entire site. Sub folders and sub webs will searched.
The search initially places the web contents in an Access2000 database. Folders that begin with an underscore '_' will not be included. If you wish to hide files from the search, they must be places in a folder that begins with '_'.
SQL server can be used with minimal changes.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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If you want to prevent a page being saved in your visitor's cache you can do so by inserting the following three tags:
(<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">)
(<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">)
(<META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">)
Note: Without the 'brackets'
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I want all my links on one page to open up in a new window and on another page I only want one of them to do this, how can I make this happen?
For one link to be open in new window:
Select the link you want to open in a new window.
Click the hyperlink icon. Or press Control + K and the Create Hyperlink box will come up. Click the 'Change Target Frame' icon (like a pencil) next to where it says 'Target Frame'.
Another box will pop up and you should select new window and press ok and save the page.
To select the whole page:
After selecting new window tick the box at the bottom where it says 'set as page default' press ok and save the page.
The code that FrontPage inserts is
<base target="_blank">)
Which goes between your head tags.
Note: without the 'brackets'.
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Would you like to have a clickable link that viewers could use to print your pages? If so insert the below code in-between your body tags.
(<a href="#" onClick="window.print()">Print this page</a>)
Note: Without the 'brackets'
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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 wanted to know the code so visitors could add her site to their favourites
So Steven Fredette of http://www.prowebsites.net/
told us
(<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http://www.yourURL.com',
'Site Title Here')""><font title="Add this site to your favorites!">Click
here to add this site to your favorites!</font></a>)
NB:Without the 'brackets'
Note: The font title tag is extra and will make a tool tip of whatever is
in the quotes. This code will only work in Explorer use Control + D to open bookmarks in Netscape.
As always insert any code from an external source into Notepad then reselect before inserting into your html view.
More next week from our motley 'crew' at the AccessFP List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPList
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4 Guest Article - "FAQs/Tips 4 Images"
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Q I get a red "X" Instead of Images, what can I do about it?
A There are a number of causes for this affliction and here are some of them
1 The url address or path for your image is incorrect within your html.
2 You might be using a picture format that will not display for example a bitmap.
3 Does the name of your image or the directory it's in contain capital letters, spaces or invalid characters? Unix servers won't tolerate this.
4 Your gif and jpeg files are not associated with your browser through Windows.
One other thing you should be aware of if all the above have no effect is to check the properties of the folder containing the images. You do this by right-clicking the image in the folder list. The 'Files can be Browsed' and 'Scripts can be Run' check boxes should be checked.
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Q How do I bevel an image in FrontPage?
A When you bevel an image it adds to it a border and a 3D effect, which is mostly used for creating a button effect.
In normal view select the image by clicking it and then click the bevel button on the Picture Toolbar, which will add the bevel to your image.
Tip: If you want to darken the bevel and add more emphasis just click the bevel button again.
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Q Why should I include an image's height and width properties within FrontPage?
A These are important because of the way browsers load pages, when the browser reads a page of html, it generates a list of images for the entire page, and then it builds the page but it has to wait for each image to download before I can display each piece of text. However if you specify an images height and width, the browser can then allocate screen space for that image so that the text can be displayed but leave a correctly sized space for each web graphic, which of course cuts down the amount of time it takes for visitors to start reading your page.
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Q Why should I insert alt tags?
A Some people especially on slow connections, may use a text-only browser, or they may browse with their images turned off, others may be vision impaired. To make sure your site is 'viewable' by everyone help these users, set alternate text for each of your images. Doing so lets them know what they're missing.
FrontPage by default will set the alternate text (alt tag) by displaying the name of the image file and the download size, but by inserting an alt tag of your own your not only helping others your helping yourself, because search engines take note of alt tags within your html, and they can help increase your position within SE's.
To help you figure out the bytes and the height and width of a graphic and to make sure you have remembered to insert alt tags on all your graphics I recommend the FREE FrontPage Add-on ErrOmi, which you can obtain from:
http://solution-shelf.com/
Read the help files before running it as you need to set your own options to suit you.
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FrontPage Image Tips
To Edit a picture in FrontPage click it once to select it and the Picture toolbar will appear.
The Picture Toolbar has lots of useful features but it's still not as good as a real photo-editing program, like the one that comes with FrontPage (Photo Editor).
To edit a picture in a separate program, double click it.
If FrontPage tells you that it has no Picture Editor assigned, click ok, then select Tools | Options, click the Configure Editors tab, click the Add button, and then in the 'Add Editor Association' dialog box, enter the file extension, the name of the editor, and the location of the program. Which should be:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PhotoEd
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Resizing a picture by dragging one of the side handles will change the aspect ration of the image, making it appear stretched unless this is intentional resize the picture by dragging one of the corner handles.
To resize a picture to some precise height or width, right-click on it and choose properties from the pop up menu, then select the Appearance tab and check 'Specify Size, enter the height of width of the image in pixels or as a percentage of the original size. You can also increase the horizontal or vertical spacing around a picture if you find your text or other content is lying too close to the picture. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Make sure that after you have resized a picture you resample it, this is because in doing so you change the file size of the image files itself, plus it can sharpen up the picture. If a picture is too small or has not been resized then this feature will be greyed out.
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Did you know that there could be only one transparent colour in any picture?
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If you want to change the format of a picture or overrule FrontPage's rule of converting 256-colour (and less) images to Gifs and greater to Jpegs, right click the picture to select it and choose Picture Properties from the popup menu. Go to the General tab.
To convert to Gif format, click the gif radio button and check Transparent if you want the gif to have a transparent colour, and interlaced if you want the gif to load more quickly.
To convert to jpeg format, click the jpeg radio button, and choose the percentage of the original file size to which you would like to compress the image.
Note: The lower the number the lower the quality, the default optimal setting is 75.
Increase the number of 'Progressive Passes' box if you want the jpeg to seem to appear more quickly--which will be at the cost of more downloading overall. The default is four passes.
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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:
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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------- myNetWatchman
http://www.mynetwatchman.com
Personal firewalls are essential, however, they are notorious for generating "attacks" that are completely bogus. ISP abuse departments are already overwhelmed with SPAM complaints. The last thing we need to do is flood them with port scan complaints that aren't real or aren't serious enough to warrant escalation. Ideally, we need to focus on attacks that clearly indicate a compromised host, or a hacker who is doing very broad port scans over hundreds, thousands or even millions of addresses.
Problem is, a single firewall log doesn't provide enough perspective to differentiate between false and real attacks and they can never indicate the breadth of the attack.
Solution: Provide aggregated attack report to responsible party
Depending on the type of attack, an ISP or system owner often needs supporting evidence from multiple sources before action is warranted. However, even if many people report the same source IP address, the responsible party may lack the tools to correlate this information and recognize a pattern. Ideally we need to combine multiple evidence sources into a single incident e-mail escalation. This minimizes the number of individual email reports and enables immediate action by the recipient.
Internet users (such as yourself) use myNetWatchman software (or the WebAgent browser form) to forward firewall log records to the myNetWatchman server. The server aggregates the data, backtraces the activity to its source, filters false alarms, and automatically sends escalation e-mails to the responsible party. The server also gathers response e-mails from the responsible party allowing you to monitor the progress of each incident. Very often the responsible party is alerted within 1-3 minutes of when you report an event.
myNetWatchman is a free service (to individuals
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****General Links****
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Microsoft Web Application Stress is a simulation tool that is designed to realistically reproduce multiple browsers requesting pages from a web application. It was developed by web testers. We have made the tool as easy to use as possible by masking some of the complexities of web server testing. This makes the tool desirable for anyone interested in gathering performance data on their web site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Making Your Web Sites More Accessible with Microsoft® FrontPage®2000
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/accessibility.html
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Mystery folders in your FrontPage web
http://www.cipp.com/resources/articles/frontpage_folders.htm
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Ready-made Databases
http://www.office-power.com/magazine/071999/know/know1_071999.htm
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How to bookmark a frame
http://www.infohiway.com/javascript?bkmrkfr
This utility provides a simple method for your users to bookmark a framed page, ensuring that they will return to the bookmarked page in a properly framed environment.
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