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Congratulations to the winner of our Chameleon
competition - Steve Taylor. Steve answered
correctly the question "What does Chameleon
do?" Answer: Changes the color of a Web site
Steve wins a copy of the new Chameleon
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Thanks to Epinoisis, makers of Chameleon,
for donating this wonderful prize.
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LIMITED TIME ONLY: Deborah Miller of
Themes in Design has arranged for
AnyFrontPage subscribers to download FREE
the template she designed to go with our Main
Article below. Don't put it off - Download Now!
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TIPS AND TRICKS
Broken links that don't exist.
Broken Links Report can sometimes report that
you have a broken hyperlink and yet the link
does not appear to exist.
This can occur if you press Shift + Enter instead
of the spacebar to make the link clickable.
FrontPage will put a closing tag after the page
break not before it so the code will look like the
following:
<a href="index.htm">Home<br></a>
If you decided to delete the text 'Home' the link
will be left behind.
<a href="index.htm"><br></a>
As a result, you might think you have deleted
the link, but it's actually still lurking in the code,
and you will have to go into html view to delete
it.
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FUN WITH AUTO THUMBNAIL IN FP
Have nice big images that you want to add to
your web pages, but don't want to add too much
to your page load time? If you haven't already,
you might want to give the Auto-Thumbnail
feature a whirl.
Drag and drop your full size graphic on your
page where you want it and then (with the image
selected) press Ctrl+T (or go to TOOLS > AUTO
THUMBNAIL). FrontPage will resize your original
graphic and add a hyperlink from the small one
to the original one. When you save the page,
FrontPage will prompt you to save the small
image (make sure that FP is saving it to the
folder you would like the small image saved in.
You can change the folder to which it is saved in
the dialog box)
You can change the settings applied to the
small image with auto thumbnail. TOOLS >
PAGE OPTIONS > Click the Auto Thumbnail
tab: In this dialog box, you can change the
pixel number and apply that pixel number to the
width, height or longest side of the image. You
can add a beveled edge and a border size to the
thumbnail image.
Remember that the link from the thumbnail
image points directly to the original image. If you
want more control over the page background the
full size image displays on then you can add the
full size image to a new page and change the
hyperlink from the thumbnail image to the new
page with the full size image. You can go one
step further and even create a link from the
thumbnail image that opens the new page with
the full size image in a pop up window that has
a specific size and even eliminates the address
bar, toolbars of the browser and all. See this
issues featured site for a great FP 2002
PopUpWindow component.
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" FrontPage is a great HTML editor. With some
knowledge of FrontPage and a good graphics
program you can create some nice page layouts
in FrontPage." So starts one of the best
tutorials this editor has read on slicing images
for placing on your web page or web template.
Many tips on Paint Shop Pro 6 are included in
this fascinating and easy to follow tutorial.
How DO you get those edges even?
How DO you insert them into a FrontPage
Table?
It's all there!! See: GRAPHICS TUTORIAL,
By Deborah Miller of Themes in Design on our
website at: http://anyfrontpage.com/graphicstutorial/
PLUS as a bonus for our subscribers, Deborah
has included a FREE TEMPLATE of her
'Fantasy Dreams' creation. Be sure to download
this, when you are through reading and following
the tutorial - and welcome to Slicing Graphics
Made Simple.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR of GRAPHICS TUTORIAL
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Deborah Miller is webmaster of Themes In
Design http://www.themesindesign.com
See her site for FrontPage tips, tutorials, links
or to get a unique template for your new or
current web site. Need a custom template or
have a question? Drop her an e-mail, debbie@themesindesign.com, she will be glad
to help you. ******************************
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Simon Haddad took a web design course in
college, and found that because of FrontPage
2000, he really enjoyed it. Seeing a lot of
features, JavaScript for one, that weren't built in
to FrontPage, he began trying his hand at
making some in VBA (macros). The rest is
history!
Like so many of our up-and-coming
programmers, Simon is self taught. Starting with
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on his own "which I did, over years with my nose
in whatever books I could get my hands on" he
said.
We were privileged to have an online interview
with Simon Haddad, here is a snip from our
interview:
AnyFrontPage: What are remotely hosted
components?
simonhaddad: Its a web page, plain and simple,
with an added permission... It can read existing
FrontPage Web Components, aside from that,
it's a normal web page. The way it works is you
either insert a component by clicking Insert >>
Web Component...
simonhaddad: or edit one that is already on the
page. A pseudo-browser window will open up to
the web page defined by the component...
NOTE: If you want to learn to write FrontPage
addons check out this tutorial from Microsoft.
Building a COM Add-in for Microsoft Office XP
Using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/mvb.htm
FrontPage Rebate http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/rebate.htm
If you acquire a copy of FrontPage 2002
Standard or upgrade between July 7, 2002 and
September 14, 2002 you may qualify for a $20
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Learn How to Spell HTML http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/sp.htm
FrontPage makes it easy to build Web pages
without knowing HTML. But once in a while, you
might want to know how to work with the HTML
behind your Web pages.
~ FRONTPAGE RESOURCES:
Jimco Meta 2.0 UPDATES http://www.jimcoaddins.com/
Back by popular demand, Jimco Meta is new
and improved. Easily control meta tags in
FrontPage, including FrontPage's own
GENERATOR and ProgId meta tags.
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Self-service Site Creation NEW ADD-ON
SharePoint Team Services: http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/sps.htm
Server administrators can use the Self-Service
Site Creation Add-in to allow users to create a
SharePoint team Web site automatically as a
subweb of the root web, without needing
administrator rights to the root web. For
developers, this add-in is also an example of the
types of automations you can create for
SharePoint Team Services. If you want to create
your own add-in, or customize this one, you can
use the source files that are included in this
download.
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Popup Menus NEW ADD-ON http://www.traditum.com/popupmenus/Default.htm
This add in allows you to use the tools menu to
insert a DHTML menu that dynamically pops up
on the page. It is optimized for Internet Explorer.
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PageWeight - NEW FREE ADD-ON http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/paw.htm
PageWeight gives you a quick way to check if
your page falls within a certain size.
Total weight of your page.
A listing of important page weight factors,
including:
Number of characters on the page.
Number of font tags used.
Number of tables used.
Number of scripts in the page.
Number of page components
(FrontPage components and Java applets).
Number of images.
Size of each image.
~ GENERAL RESOURCES:
Linda's MS Office E-Books 2000 http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/lin.htm
"These ebooks teach you, step by step, how to
use all the features included in Access, Excel,
Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. The
Sampler Download includes one lesson for each
program. All lessons are based on Office 2000,
but can be applied to other versions."
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SLUGS http://www.opensourcepan.co.uk/programs/slugs/
SLUGS (Simple Little Utility for Generating
Schemes) is a simple colour picker which can
provide suggestions for colours which look nice
together.
~ GENERAL LINKS:
http://diveintomark.org/
The webmaster of this site uses characters to
teach you how to code your site so that you can
see what disabled users would see and hear (or
not as the case maybe). An excellent way to
teach accessibility issues.
Recommended by this editor (sic Tina)
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