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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
We want to wish our very own, most excellent
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February 27th is her day, we hope it was a really
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AnyFrontPage Bytes is delighted to announce a
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From our first issue, we have been blest with top
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This all started with our contest for our
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We commissioned our resident graphics
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As we do try to keep the Bytes Ezine short and
to the point to make easier reading for our
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short. A simple byline with links to their sites
so that you can learn a little more about them
there.
Some of our webmasters are so busy creating
great web sites, though that they do not have a
biography page on their own site.
Our community is large and growing by the
minute. We don’t all know each other any more
and it is important that we should.
This is the way that new traditions are born. Our
Bytes Ezine will remain concise, but for those
evenings when you do have more time, each of
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When you really like an article and would like to
see more by that special author, our “Search”
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It’s exciting to be growing so fast. We thank you.
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TIPS AND TRICKS
FRONTPAGE FORM FIELD NAMES
Save yourself a lot of headache and time by
making sure you do not have spaces in your
FP form field names. Get in the habit early on in
naming your form fields using single words,
underscore separators or no spaces between
words in the name.
Don't = Street Address
DO = Street_Address
DO = StreetAddress
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HOW TO MAKE A VERTICAL LINE
Make a table with 3 cells
Make a 1X1pixel transparent gif
Configure the width of the middle cell to one and
the background to the colour of choice.
Insert your 1x1 gif This will make vertical line
between the two cells and separate your content.
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HIDE FILES FROM SEARCH RESULTS AND
SITE INDEX
Pages stored in a folder with the underscore
before the name, such as _private, will not be
placed in your site index or search results.
Pages that are moved to a _private folder and still
showing up in the site index or search results, or
pages that have been deleted from your web and
still show up can be eliminated from the site
index by recalculating your hyperlinks in the web.
Look in your TOOLS menu for the recalculate
hyperlinks option.
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Back to Basics Reminder on navigation, layout
and graphics continuity within a website.
We have been very excited about themes and
templates lately. They are a marvelous
addition to our arsenal. Sometimes,
rediscovering an old web trick can be just as
exciting though.
Remember our ‘include pages’? (One of my big
breakthroughs was discovering that I could ‘nest’
those includes all into one include page.) Keep
them in mind as we talk about Virtual Includes.
You can split your existing pages into separate
files and then create a single page using a series
of the files that you have created. This allows
you to make changes to one file, and have those
changes appear across all pages of your site.
(This could be a header file containing a news
feed or a banner script, or a menu file containing
a table of hyperlinks, or a footer file containing
copyright information.)
For virtual Includes, you will need to know the
platform your host server runs on and if your web
server can handle them. IIS and Apache allow
this by default, but your system administrator
should verify that this form of scripting is
available to your site.:
**On NT (Microsoft's IIS Web Server), you can
use .asp file extensions in place of .htm or .html
files. Example:
<!--#include file="header.asp"-->
HTML code for the page file
<!--#include file="footer.asp"-->
**On Linux (Apache Web Server), you can
create .php files. Example:
<? include("header.php"); ?>
HTML code for the page file
<? include("footer.php"); ?>
or, if you are running SSI instead of PHP
SSI Server Side Includes
<!--#include virtual="header.shtml"-->
The header and footer are separate files that
reside in The root directory of your server. It has
separate files for Header and Footer. For
example, "header.asp" and footer.asp” consist of
blocks of code that will display as the top and
bottom of your page. So, if your page is
“index.asp”, its program would request the
header and the footer, from the server to display
with the index file itself. The browser display
would show a page based on the three files
involved. (You don’t have to limit yourself or your
page to only these three files.)
One change to an include file (such as the
header) and all pages that call for this file are
automatically updated. Multi-page site
maintenance just became a snap!!
Frances is a editor on AnyFrontPage Bytes and
an expert in the field of search engine
optimization, Frances' articles have been
published in various newsletters and websites.
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Tom "Pepper" Willett's day job is Director of
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We appreciate Tom's contributions to the
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This site contains help and resources for a
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you take note of the Image Composer and
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which is the download for multiple undo's in
Image Composer - FREE and a MUST HAVE!
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-No New Page 3.0 UPDATE
http://www.jimcoaddins.com/com.asp
Jimco No New Page 3.0 has been released!
This new version prevents the new window when
FrontPage is launched and corrects a couple of
problems encountered in version 2.0. It is
available on the Add-ins page. Please read the
important note in the add-in description.
-Jimco Meta UPDATE
There have been several issues that have
surfaced with Jimco Meta. If you are
experiencing errors when using this add-in,
please uninstall it. An update will be posted as
soon as possible.
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-Get the Right Tools for the Complete Web
Solution And Get $80 Back
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If you purchase a licensed copy of Microsoft
FrontPage® version 2002 Standard or Upgrade
and Jasc® Paint Shop Pro® 7 Anniversary
Edition between now and March 31, 2002, you
may receive an $80 US rebate.
To take advantage of this special offer, here's all
you have to do: Pick up a licensed copy of
FrontPage 2002 Standard or Upgrade edition and
Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition. (Products
may be acquired separately and from different
retailers or resellers.) Fill in the rebate coupon.
Coupons are attached to the products. Or you
can download the rebate coupon from the link
above. Mail the completed rebate coupon, along
with your proof(s) of purchase, to Microsoft.
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-The FrontPage Database Troubleshooting
Utility checks for the following items that may
cause a Database Results Region page to fail: -
The absence of a Global.asa file. - Whether the
Global.asa file is running. - Whether the
Global.asa file is running outside of the Web. -
The absense of any database connections in the
Web.
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On Tuesday March 5 from 7:00 P.M. to 7:45
P.M. (Eastern Time) author Paul H. Zimmerman
will present "FrontPage: Beyond the Basics."
Manage your Web site efficiently.
Use navigation to keep your site organized.
Take advantage of features like find and replace.
Incorporate advanced Web components.
The class will consist of live slide presentations
and a interactive chat. The instructor will show
slides and deliver commentary via a chatroom
interface. Participants will be able to ask
questions during the sessions.
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eBay and PayPal working together? Yes and
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hides down in the Windows task tray. It
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review. Then just click on the auction item of
interest and Auction Messenger will take you
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~ General Links
http://www.codefoot.com/software/ecloaker/
E_Cloaker 2.0 is a simple utility that converts
the characters of email addresses and text into
browser-readable Unicode, making it more
difficult for spam extractor 'bots to harvest
email addresses from your web page. Using
Unicoded addresses throughout your site can
significantly reduce the amount of spam you
receive.
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Free Online Button Maker
http://www.weballey.net/templates/editor.cgi
Enter your text press submit and up to ten
buttons at one time can be made.
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Free Web Browser Extensions for Internet Explorer
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