FrontPage Database Driven Templates and FrontPage Database Driven Template Add-ins
Our new Foundation FrontPage Template Plus version includes a database driven board members section with backend administration, built in file upload feature and much more.

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GENERALLY SPEAKING

Our 'Generally Speaking' section seems to be chock full each month and still we're keeping secrets from you. AnyFrontPage Bytes' editors are so excited about the coming year's plans that we are bursting at the seams - that, and Fran is going on a diet to help with that seam problem! We are finding ways to trim costs and work smarter while making a splash with our sites, and can't wait to share it all with you. The next issue (the last in Volume II) will contain party plans. Mark your calendars to attend, to hear those announcements that won't wait for the 1st issue in Volume III.

<Hums>"I'm gonna change my way of living, and that ain't no bluff - thinkin' bout changing how I strut my stuff, 'cause nobody wants you when you're old and gray. There'll be some changes made today! There'll be some changes made."

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 ~ NEW FEATURE: AFP is launching a new peer-to-peer site review feature in Bytes. If you would like to submit your site for consideration for the first peer-to-peer review, simply email: sitereviews@anyfrontpage.com

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Happy August Birthday to:
Doug Anderson
Daryl Stevenson
Bill Spurrell
Merrill
Anne Nevil
Diane Bader
Logan Garth Swanger
RebelWolf
Christopher Anderson
(our last year's August winner http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/i21v1.asp)
Marlene Lauderdale
and Carol H

Happy birthday to everyone, and congratulations to Daryl Stevenson, the lucky drawing winner. Daryl has won last month's advertised TP_RankPal Toolbox for FrontPage. This add-on helps you to prepare web pages to rank high in multiple Search Engines! http://solution-shelf.com/AFP_RP.htm

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There is a special award this month for one of the birthday people: RebelWolf. Fast becoming one of the most popular items on the AFP site, is the GuestMap, which was originally her suggestion. Thank you Rebel - your award is a copy of the new eBook by AFP editors, Tiffany Edmonds and Frances Stewart, Search Engines The Right Way. This is the latest in the "Right Way" series of text books designed to make web crafting easily meet professional standards.

Thank you to everyone who responded to our Search Engines The Right Way book review offer! We are still a bit stunned by the huge response to this offer. Keep those wonderful reviews coming and gain a little popularity with Google and other major search engines in the process. We are posting the book reviews with links to an appropriate URL for each review on the sales pages for the book on at-frontpage.com, anyfrontpage.com, and FrontPageWorld.com.

If you have not sent in your review yet please hurry to be included on the above sales page. If you missed the deadline on the offer, don't worry. As you can see above (and will continue to see), we have several promotional plans just for our AnyFrontPage Bytes subscribers:

Birthday presents, Special event prizes and the following limited time offer just for AFP Bytes subscribers like yourself.

Now through August 31st, 2003 get 20% off the price of Search Engines The Right Way here: [ out of date link - removed ] 

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If you are not signed up for the Birthday Drawing, please do:
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GuestMap: http://anyfrontpage.com/

(AFP: Prizes and Surprises every issue!)

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Can You Use Includes On A Site That Resides On A Server With No Frontpage Server Extensions?

Before Microsoft bought and developed FrontPage for the PC the original application was only used for the web. So the Include webbot component could run on the web on a site that did not require FrontPage server extensions. So if you FTP, the Include bot will work. If you publish, the include webbot will use the FPSE and work in the same manner. So the short answer is yes you can.

Written with kind help from James S. Huggins, MS MVP - FrontPage,
http://www.JamesSHuggins.com

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Adding Custom Icons To Your Web Site

Have you ever wondered how MSN and other web sites replace the Address Bar icon | with their own, custom icon? Well its actually pretty easy! To start with, you'll need an icon file. I recommend using MicroAngelo http://www.microangelo.us/. Its a terrific icon editor, full of great options and features. The icon you build must be 16 x 16. When saving the icon, be sure to name it favicon.ico and save it to to the root of your FrontPage web site. Now any time someone visits your site, they should see the "favicon" displayed there. If you don't have Microangelo or any other icon editing software available, then use Microsoft Paint (Start --> Accessories --> Paint). Paint creates BMP files, but after creating your masterpiece, you can simply rename it to have an ICO extension.

Favorite Icons are in use on Netscape, Mozilla, and other browsers as well. Aside from the favicon.ico file, you can also add the following code to the header of your web page to help Netscape and other browsers get the icon. This reference is also helpful for Internet Explorer as well.

<link rel="icon" href="http://www.mysite.com/favicon.png" type="image/png">

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mysite.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" >

The first line handles Netscape, Mozilla and other browsers, while the second line works with Internet Explorer. A quick word of warning: Surprisingly enough, IE's implementation of this seems to have some bugs, where the icon may not always appear. You can read all about it at www.favicon.com.

Tip contributed by:
Alex Tushinsky, Owner of LTMOD.com http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/lod.htm and author of many great FrontPage addins

** see articles by these tipsters at www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/authors.asp

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Restore Your Frontpage Site From Cd
By Mark Fields

You've created the website, you've published it to your host server, and all is great. You even took the time to copy your disk-based web from your hard drive to a CD. Then the unthinkable happens; you accidentally delete a file from your local copy of the web while making changes. Time to call out the CD backup. However, when you copy the file back to your hard drive from the CD and try to work with it, you get an error message similar to "the file cannot be edited and to check the permissions."

Why the Error?
Anything that is copied or moved to CD-ROM immediately obtains the file attributes of "Read Only". This protects the data from being deleted from the media. This is no different than viewing a file on a "store bought" CD. You can read the files from that CD, but you cannot edit them and save them with the same name.

How do I get rid of it?
When you copy the data back to your hard drive, it retains the "read only" attribute that it was given when you burned it to CD. In order to be able to edit the file and save it with the original file name, you will need to change the permissions to remove the "Read Only" attribute. You can do this on a file-by-file basis or change the whole folder.

Fixing a single file
To remove the "Read Only" attribute from a single file, do the following:

1. In Windows Explorer, locate the file that you need to edit.
2. Right-click on the file name.
3. On the context menu, click on the Properties selection.
4. Click on the Read-only item in the Attributes section near the bottom of the window to remove the checkmark.
5. Click the OK button to close the window. You are now free to edit the file and save it with the original file name.

Fixing an entire folder
The steps listed above are fine if all you need to do is restore and edit one file, or even just a few. But what if you need to restore an entire web site consisting of hundreds or thousands of files? Your hand would fall off right-clicking that many files! In that case, you would change the attributes of the entire folder all at one time. To remove the "Read Only" attribute from the entire folder and it's contents, do the following:

1. In Windows Explorer, locate the folder that you need to edit.
2. In the left-hand pane, click once on the folder name to show all the subfolders and files in the right-hand pane.
3. On the menu bar, click on Edit and then click on Select All to highlight all of the files and folders in the right-hand pane.
4. On the menu bar, click on File and then click on Properties.
5. Click on the Read-only item in the Attributes section near the bottom of the window to remove the checkmark.
6. Click the OK button.

The next step depends on the Operating System you have on your computer.

On Windows 9x (95, 98, ME) systems, you are done. Your files are now fully editable and can be saved with their original file names.

On Windows 2000 and Windows XP after you click on the OK button, you will receive an additional dialog window titled "Confirm Attribute Changes". Click to select the radio button next to 'Apply changes to the selected items, subfolders, and files' item and then click on the OK button. Your files are now fully editable and can be saved with their original file names.

The cheap and easy backup solution
Backing up web sites to CD's is an excellent idea. A single CD will hold at least 650MB of data. You can put a lot of information on a single CD, and if you choose to write them as multisession (see the Help File of your CD burning software), can use the same CD for several backups. For example, my website at: http://www.janfields.com  contains approximately 30 HTML pages, nearly 60 PDF files of archived articles and columns, and over 100 different graphics. The size of all of this? Just under 6MB. Do the math and you can see that using CD's to back up your site is not only safe, but also economical, as you can do a lot of backups before you have to start on a new piece of media.

Just remember that when you copy it back to your hard drive after that unforeseen disaster or after you put that new big hard drive in your computer to take a couple of minutes to change the file attributes on your files and folders and you will be back to editing in no time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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Mark Fields is a systems administrator and the owner and webmaster of http://janfields.com and http://www.ourcreativespace.com. But the site he is most proud of is his "other" site, http://www.racheltoday.com, his daughter's site.
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LTMOD Computer Solutions, http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/lod.htm, is a natural for AnyFrontPage's Featured Site. Webmaster, Alex Tushinsky is a valuable member of our FrontPage Community.

Take a look at some of the FrontPage Add-ins he has developed:

CoolerEmail Add-In allows FrontPage users to post HTML rich newsletters, e-zines, and other email marketing letters using the CoolerEmail service. This add-in is free!

Media Manager Version 2.0 allows Microsoft. FrontPage. 2002 and FrontPage. 2000 users to add Macromedia Flash, RealNetwork's RealPlayer, Apple Quicktime, and Microsoft Media Player movies to their web pages! Now with support for the latest player versions and improved interface for embedding the RealOne Player.

PageTools Version 2.5 is now available for download. Version 2.5 includes better support for Microsoft. FrontPage. 2002 and Microsoft Windows XP, better error handling, and completely COM based, it is quick and reliable. The new version is more streamlined, and includes Quick Site Open. Existing users can upgrade free of charge!

LTMOD offers complete network services solutions for new sites or existing upgrades. LTMOD services have included Network project planning, Upgrade planning, Cable installation and testing (CAT5e), Server installation and configuration (Windows/Unix/Netware), Cisco and Panduit installations, and Networking of home based networks.

Alex currently teaches two certificate programs at Bergen County Community College (Webmaster and E-Commerce).

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Q. In the new Search Engines The Right Way eBook by Tiffany Edmonds and Frances Stewart, the "print" icon does not work on Chapter 2. There is a grey error box with the following message " An error has occurred in the script on this page". Lower, in the box, it says "Error: object doesn't this property or method".

A. In troubleshooting this one, Annie learned a strange, obscure fact.  You cannot have a bookmark named "tags" in an HTML page. If you have a <a name="tags"></a> in your code on a webpage, the browser will give you an error when you try to print the page! Weird, huh? Fixed the chapter 2 print error by troubleshooting down to:
<a name="tags"></a> in the code. Changed it to <a name="3"></a> and it prints just fine from the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, and in turn; from the compiled ebook.

(Thank you to Larry Seltzer and Vince Benedict for catching this one for us!)

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FRONTPAGE RELATED:
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  ~ FrontPage Links:

MICROSOFT INTRODUCES NEW ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/306.htm
Microsoft marks the second anniversary of Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act by announcing accessibility improvements in Microsoft Office System products, including the new FrontPage 2003 Accessibility checker

 ~ FrontPage Resources

Inside Microsoft FrontPage - Aug 2003 Index
http://www.elementkjournals.com/mfp

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AllWebMenus Pro version 3.1 UPDATE
http://www.likno.com/
As always, we will greatly appreciate any feedback or any suggestions you may have for the improvement of the application. Apart from the new features in the v3.x series, we are aware that there are many other features that you suggested and we are planning to support
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FRONTPAGE ADD-IN ~ As FEATURED IN Microsoft's FANZINE
Enhance your online forms with FrontFX Tools Plus 2 from XZAKT Media. Choose from over 60 JavaScript components, including: timers, buttons, drop-down lists, and navigation bars. Download this add-in at:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/xme.htm
NOTE: Tools+ 2 and Tools+ 1 UPDATE DLLs Places Tools+2 on XZAKT FrontFX Menu instead of Tools Menu to run across international versions of FP2000/2002. Unzip Downloads and See ReadMe.txt file for installation.

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ExtraFP v1.0 - UPDATED
http://www.extrafrontpage.com/downloads.htm
- ExtraFP to replace ExtraJS

* JavaScript collection ( 5 scripts )
* Style collection ( 1 effect )
* Poll collection ( 2 )

- A new Poll collection (ASP & PHP)
ExtraFP Poll collection can generate ASP or PHP polls and adds them automatically to your site.

Collection Features:

* Votes are saved into text files, no need for a database.
* Ability to save old polls into the history file.
* Web admin for the end user to change the poll and view poll history using only a browser.
* Cookies are used to prevent multiple voting.
* Ability to add poll into html pages using JavaScript include.
* Add multiple polls to a single site
* Full control to change font style, background colors, and width.

- License changes

*Was DonationWare now Trialware that requires registration.

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DocLib Utils (fp02) - NEW ADD-ON
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/doclib.asp
Two Web parts to display items checked out to the current user within all document libraries on a site as well as all documents pending approval status from all document libraries within a site.

~ General Resources

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Fraps 2.0.0 is finally available! (first commercial release - $29.95)
The major changes:

Sound is captured along with the video.
Higher speed capture codec (records up to 1024x768).
Frame-skipping support (movies run at correct rate).
Full gamma correction. No dark captures!
Half-size record option (play in hi-res without wasting disk space).
Ability to disable the overlay, and a hotkey to switch corners!

FREE demo version is identical to the full release except for some video capture limitations. Fraps is a utility advertised for DirectX and OpenGL games. AFP Secret? It captures video into an avi file for your webpages and is great movie maker software. Take screenshots at the press of a button with files automatically named and timestamped. http://www.fraps.com/
 

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