PageTools is an add-on to Microsoft FrontPage
2000. An exciting set of utilities that enhance
the speed and quality of any FrontPage web
site. PageTools allow you to quickly and easily
install a template to be used on some or all
pages in your site. Export themes to and from
various installations of FrontPage, as well as
Export any file within your web site.
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~ AnyFrontPage Bytes News:
Message from the Editors
Happy New Year! We wish you a happy, healthy
and prosperous 2002. We, at AnyFrontPage
Bytes believe this will be the most exciting year
yet and look forward to bringing you more
exciting and info packed issues throughout the
new year!
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Folks, we want to let you in on a well kept secret
our very own editor, Tiffany K. Edmonds is the
author of Essentials FrontPage 2002
For Web
Professionals.
This book is loaded with information on learning
to use FrontPage, particularly FrontPage 2002.
From the very beginning basics through more
advanced features like the Database Interface
Wizard and Database Results Wizard. In this
book, you will build an example website from
start through publish and have a companion
website to reference while reading the book and
working through the projects.
Now it's not due to hit the shelves till late Jan
2002 or early Feb 2002. HOWEVER! It is
available for pre-sale NOW: I've got my copy
ordered (sic Ed for this issue Tina Clarke) go get
yours at:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/amazon.htm
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Want to view the HTML source of a web page
fast? Enter:
view-source:http://anyfrontpage.com/bytes/
(change our url for yours)
into the address bar of your browser and
notepad will appear with the html source for your
perusal.
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How to colour shared borders in FP2002
Right click in the shared border and select
'Border Properties' from the pop up menu.
First select the border you want to colour by
clicking the down arrow next to the border list
box and then check the Colour box and choose
a colour from the drop down box. If you would
like a image instead or as well tick the Picture
boxand browse or enter the path
to the image
click ok when your finished.
Tip: To get an exact match to the main content
page use the eye dropper feature in the more
colours selection at the bottom of the colour
box. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How to colour or insert a graphic on your submit
button for use with a form.
Right click on the button choose 'Form
Field
Properties' Click the 'Style' button and then the
'Format' button and choose ' Border' from the
drop down list.
Click the 'Shading' Tab and you can select the
background colour of the button and the
foreground colour of the text or browse to a
graphic that will colour the background or if it is
the same size as the button will look like a new
graphic in place of the standard button.
NOTE: This tip uses css and will not work in all
browsers
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Did you know that among the many templates
included in FrontPage is a custom confirmation
page template? Did you know that you can
create a custom confirmation page to be used
with any form you have within your FrontPage
web? It's true and it is very easy to work with,
create or customize to work with the theme of
your FrontPage web!
One of the reasons why I often chose to use a
third party form handler even with my FrontPage
extended webs is because most third party form
handlers allow you to create a custom
confirmation page that matches the theme of
your existing web, but the FrontPage forms
generate a generic confirmation page when the
form is submitted that doesn't look so great
and only offers a link back to the form. I was
stunned to realize that I could easily create a
custom confirmation form in FrontPage that
actually populates the results or values as
entered by the site visitor in the confirmation
page all within FrontPage. How could I have
missed such a fantastic feature?
If you choose to create a confirmation page from
the confirmation form template then FrontPage
will create a new page with the default
confirmation fields. If you have a theme in use
on your site and/or shared borders for all
pages then FrontPage will create the new page
with the theme and the shared borders you have
selected for all pages. From there, you can
modify and customize the page to fit your
needs. For instance, you may add or delete any
confirmation field you would like on the page,
add links to other pages in the web, add
graphics or change the wording of the default
confirmation page. The FrontPage confirmation
form is set up to confirm the fields of the default
feedback form, so if you are creating a
confirmation page for a custom form or a
modified FrontPage feedback form then you
would want to ensure that the confirmation form
fields match the fields of the form itself.
You may also create a custom confirmation
page without using the confirmation form
template by simply adding confirmation fields to
an existing page template that you may already
have set up. Layout your own confirmation page
by inserting each confirmation field manually the
actual steps to do this vary slightly between
FrontPage 2000 and FrontPage 2002, but the
overall concept is the same (see the following
URL for tutorials on creating and customizing
the FrontPage confirmation form).
If you are authoring FrontPage webs that use
forms of any type, have fun with the confirmation
form! It is a great way to enhance the overall
professionalism and appearance of your Web
site.
Tiffany K. Edmonds is an editor for
AnyFrontPage Bytes as well as owner of
atfrontpage.com and the author of the upcoming
book, Essentials FrontPage 2002 For Web
Professionals, available for pre-sale at:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/amazon.htm
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Popup Window Wizard 2
Extension Modifier
This site also boasts a Add-in 101 section which
teaches you how to build an add-in for FrontPage
2000 from scratch, using Visual Basic 6.0 and
just to finish off they also have a VBA center
currently with seven samples of vba and va to
make programming FrontPage 2000 that much
easier.
Believe me you will want that Extension modifier if
you have to change all your .htm to .asp
-onsolidatation of the FrontPage
programming
newsgroups
(Microsoft.public.frontpage.progamming.vba and
Microsoft.public.frontpage.progamming.comaddin
s) are now a general FrontPage programming ng
(Microsoft.public.frontpage.progamming).
Also the frontpage.mac newsgroup will be
discontinued by Jan 31st due to a lack of
community interaction. Mac related questions
should be asked in the frontpage.client
newsgroup.
1) Client: (Microsoft.public.frontpage.client)
All "in-box" FrontPage feature usability including:
Database Results
Compatibility / Dimmed Menu Options
Themes / Shared Borders
Images
Hyperlinks
Publishing Http or FTP
Frames
Discussions
Etc.
ASP questions relating to FrontPage
Basic HTML questions relating to FrontPage
2) Programming:
Microsoft.public.frontpage.progamming)
This newsgroup is to handle all "out of box"
support questions including:
VBA
COM Add-ins
JavaScript
(This does not include support for add-ins
featured in the add-in center)
3) Extensions.windowsnt:
(Microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.windowsnt)
This newsgroup is to handle FrontPage Server
Extensions issues on a Windows Server.
4) Extensions.unix:
(Microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.unix)
This newsgroup is to handle FrontPage Server
Extensions issues on a UNIX Server.
Questions related to SharePoint Team Services
should be directed to these specific newsgroups
Microsoft.public.sharepoint.teamservices
(usability)
Microsoft.public.sharepoint.teamservices.caml
(custom development)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Metadata Editor NEW FREE ADD-ON
http://www.brettb.com/metadata_editor.asp
The program allows you to edit the following four
commonly used Meta tags: Author, Reply-to,
Description and Keywords. Additionally, it also
allows you to edit the Robots Meta tag, and add
the Refresh tag which allows you to specify that
the web page automatically loads another web
page after a certain amount of time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -FP2K Auto_Start V2.0 FREE UPDATED
ADD-ON
http://www.bmsltd.co.uk/O2000/Default.htm
This file is a COM Addin which runs two routines
when starting FrontPage, if they exist in the
FrontPage project:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Hypermart
http://www.hypermart.net/t/registration/packageinfo#free
Hypermart now support MS FrontPage 2002
Extensions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Support WebCast: Publishing with
Microsoft
FrontPage 2002
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/webcast.htm
Thursday, January 24, 2002: 10:00 A.M. Pacific
time (Greenwich mean time - 8 hours)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Jimco Page Margins 2002 - Known
issue:
http://www.jimcoaddins.com/com/2002/page_margins/Default.htm
"If a page is open and you attempt to modify the
margins with Page Margins 2002, no changes
are made to the page. I will be correcting this
shortly. I apologize for the inconvenience.
You'll need to install Page Margins 2002 first.
After it's installed, install SR1 to patch it to the
latest version."
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Bobby WorldWide
http://www.cast.org/Bobby/
This a new version of Bobby from CAST. This is
a Web-based tool that analyzes Web pages for
their accessibility to people with disabilities
using both the Section 508 guidelines and the
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
from the Web Access Initiative. The online
version is still free you have to pay to download.
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Lockergnome Tips - Latest Issue
http://virtualgraphicsworld.freeservers.com/lockergnome.htm
Hints, Tips & Tricks Windows Help File. 0112 -
August 1998 to December 2001. - Freeware.
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Microsoft Producer - FREE PP02 add-in
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/
It helps you capture, synchronise, and publish
audio, video, slides, and images - resulting in
fabulous presentations viewable on demand in a
Web browser.
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PhotoPoint goes dark
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