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Last issue I (sic Ed Tina) told you about
Tiffany's little secret her new book "Essentials
FrontPage 2002 For Web Professionals" This
issue I want to tell you about just SOME of the
features she has written about.
You'll learn all this and much more! Creating,
organizing, building, and managing FrontPage
Webs Importing existing Web sites into
FrontPage Implementing forms, custom
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search features Delivering live interactive content
from MSN, MSNBC, bCentral, and Expedia
Automating global changes and updates
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will find Publishing with FrontPage 2002's
enhanced site publishing features Collaborating
on new SharePoint intranet team or project
Webs Deploying small-scale Web servers with
Personal Web Server.
On January 1, 2002 the euro moved into
common circulation with the introduction of
coins and notes in the euro-zone. This
changeover will impact 12 countries, more than
310 million consumers, and every organization
or individual that has dealings with the region.
Do you have a commerce site or have the need
to write the Euro symbol and what do you do if
your keyboard is not up-to-date?
For UK Alt - Gr + 4
*For US (international) - Alt Gr + 5
'Alt Gr' is your RIGHT alt button on the keyboard
hold this down whilst pressing the number for
your country. *On standard US keyboards hold
down either Alt key and type 0128 on the
numeric keypad part of your keyboard. The
AltGr combinations listed are not implemented
on US keyboard as users expect both right and
left Alt keys to have the same effect.
You can also utilise FrontPage 2002 to obtain
the Euro symbol.On the main menu
GoTo Insert
| Symbol in the 'from' box click Unicode (hex)
and in the subset box click 'Currency Symbols'
the Euro symbol will then be available.
Note also that FrontPage Express V2.0 now has
the Euro symbol.
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Do you still have a free account with
TheCounter.com ? Effective January 2nd, 02
their terms of service got revised. Free Service
will ONLY be available to Web sites that average
less than 1,000 hits per day over a thirty (30)
day period. More and you have to upgrade or
otherwise delete your account.
When choosing a host for your FrontPage web a
few salient facts are worth noting, namely:
When a web host says "We support FrontPage"
remember that you need FrontPage extension
support also. They should state "We support
FrontPage Extensions" if they don't, query it
till they give you a written statement that they
do support extensions and ask them to state
that on their site. Go elsewhere if they don't
know this basic fact, because chances are
that they don't know too much about extensions
either When a host says "We support
FrontPage", they merely mean you can use
FrontPage the same as any other web editor
with ftp capability. If you want to use FrontPage
with webbots then you need the extensions.
Two other facts to keep in mind are Do you
support sub webs and What version of
FrontPage extensions do you support? It's no
good getting the latest FP02 to use SharePoint
only to find that your on a host with FrontPage
2000 server extensions.
Finally, do they have a support section where
you can find out about FrontPage questions to
do with the host depending on weather it's a
Windows or Unix server there are different
problems to consider and things that you can't
do on one that you can do on the other.
For more information about hosts in general and
to understand what you should be looking for in
a host check out:
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Here's how to make an "invisible" hit counter.
It's so easy as to make you wonder "now why
didn't I think of that".
Make a graphic that's say, 10 pixels wide and 1
pixel high. That keeps it small. Make the
image one solid color; doesn't matter what color.
No one is going to see it. Now make it a
transparent gif with the background color you
used as the transparent color.
Place the hit counter on your page anywhere
that is convenient and out of the way. Specify
the transparent gif graphic as the Custom Hit
Counter file.
The only way anyone can see the amount of hits
is by looking at the actual file in the _private
directory.
File | Open web | On the menu bar of the Open
Web Dialog Box Click Tools | Properties and
FrontPage will automatically calculate the size
of your web in MB, Bytes and also how many
files and folders.
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How to Publish 'Just' a Subweb
Open up FrontPage and browse to your subweb
I use disk based webs so mine is:
C:\mywebs\anyfrontpage\ebooks
\accessfp is the root web
\ebooks is the subweb
Press Open. Then click on File | Publish web
and enter http://anyfrontpage.com/ebooks/
NOTE:You must make sure you are doing this
correctly or you will overwrite the root web make
sure you enter the subweb after the root web.
Don't forget to recalculate before publishing as
always.
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Do you like using the Thesaurus in FrontPage?
Select or type a word for which you want to find
a synonym, antonym, or related word. On the
Tools menu, click Thesaurus. Select the option
you want.
To get there faster in FrontPage 2002 highlight a
word and click Shift + F7 from the keyboard.
FRONTPAGE 2002 HAS BEEN NAMED PC
MAGAZINE'S BEST WEB AUTHORING
SOFTWARE OF 2001!!
PC Magazine cited FrontPage 2002, with its
site-building tools, the process of adding
dynamic features, and easier consistent
designs, as being as impressive as and even
more user-friendly than previous versions.
Specifically, highlighting the capabilities of
FrontPage to switch between open files, build
e-commerce sites and populate Web pages with
picture galleries, maps and threaded discussion
forums, PC Magazine states that "The current
generation of WYSIWYG authoring programs
creates lean, easily maintained HTML and
imports existing pages with little or no
modification. Most programs now toggle
between layout and editor windows, letting you
use the graphical view for design tasks (such as
building tables) and the editor for fine tuning."
Including FrontPagers in its group of "hard-core
site designers" category along with Dreamweaver
aficionados, an excellent comparison is made
of the special bias of each of these software
products.
Please excuse this editor if we can't seem to
quote this article enough (smile). It seems that
"The 2002 version of Microsoft FrontPage is
even easier to use, while it continues to grow
more powerful and produces cleaner code. The
slick, state-of-the-art Office XP interface is
unrivaled by any other product. If you wish,
FrontPage can do every-thing for you via its
wealth of prefab designs. Or you can use the
familiar Office-like tools to create your own look.
FrontPage's one-click publishing, easy access
to HTML code, discussion boards, image
galleries, database connections, and other
extras will tickle many a Web builder's fancy."
Isn't it nice? Next time we toggle between our
"powerful page-editing, site-building, and
publishing tools in a seamless, nearly foolproof
package" and produce our sites with "standard,
clean HTML" - seems we can also afford to brag
a little about our good judgment and choice of
FrontPage 2002. Altogether Lovely life for us
"hard-core site designers", isn't it?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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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.
http://www.Dynamite-iT.com
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simple and easy Cut & Paste format. This tool
is based on a Netscape script that has been
simplified and extended.
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Top Ten Sites compared
http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/TopTen2001/
(Ed) Interesting reading...
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Most surfers keep their browser window at about
800 pixels wide to view that majority of Web
sites designed for 800 x 600 without having to
resize the window, then have trouble reading
text that spans that width. It is inconvenient
to constantly resize the browser to a narrower
width when doing research on a subject.
To accommodate these surfers, if your website
is heavy on text - such as a genealogy page or
a tutorial - you might elect to use a table cell
no wider than about 450 pixels.
But there is another solution available FREE!!
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like that Ruler you used in grade school!!
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