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ATTENTION:
NEW ST VALENTINE'S DAY CONTEST!
Remember Browning's Immortal Love Poems?
The world has changed enough that you too can
be immortalized for your suggestion of a
FrontPage software improvement!!
Andrew Brisbane of XZAKT Media, Australia
(
http://www.xzmedia.com/frontfx/) has
volunteered a Valentine's Labor of Love for
FrontPage. The developer of the FreeWare
FrontFX Picture Splitter will write the software for
us to ... Better yet, let's let him tell it himself:
"I am willing to take on any idea within reason
(that I can whip up in a weekend) for an
annoyance, hassle or enhancement wanted that
users have with FrontPage 2000.
Whoever comes up with the best idea for an
addin will have the addin named after them and it
will be released freely for all! Sounds like a bit of
fun!"
**Valentine's Day "I-Love-FrontPage2000-But"
Competition**
AnyFrontPage is pleased to be the first to
announce an Open "Valentine's Day I-Love-
FrontPage-But Competition / Contest"!!
This is a truly OPEN competition. Feel free to
pass this on to Friends and Colleagues - anyone
can enter!! Any entries received from 14
February 2002 through 27 February 2002 will be
considered.
FAME AWAITS - Don't Delay Your Entry - Go
straight to: [ out of date link - removed ]
How often do YOU have history named for you?
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NOTE: the DOUBLE OR NOTHING Competition
is still running for AnyFrontPage Subscribers
only.
Become a Contributing Writer and Win Big!!
See
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details.
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FRONTPAGE NEWSFLASH!
Yes, yes, yessssss! it's on it's way!
What?... MY copy of AnyFrontPage Bytes
very own famous Tiffany K. Edmonds'
author of "Essential FrontPage 2002 for Web
Professionals" Amazon informed me my
preorder was being shipped, How about
you? If you didn't preorder, you can order
straightaway at:
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for Brits
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/amazonuk.htm
Tiffany will be available for autographs next
issue, is this possible over the net? You
betcha.. don't miss next issue to find out how!
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BREAKING AFP NEWS
"Since the 1st of February, our web host has
been battling hacker attacks, resulting in
intermittent service for this website.
AnyFrontPage apologizes for any inconvenience
this has caused and hopes to be fully
operational within the next day or two.", scrolled
on our news ticker on the AnyFrontPage.com
homepage for almost a week. Not that anyone
could read it - as the site was down well and
proper.
Read the whole story: [ out of date link - removed ]
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Don't miss our upcoming series of articles in
following issues about Database functionality
and features in FrontPage! The first in this
series is scheduled for NEXT issue!
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Have you made your entry to the AnyFrontPage
Bytes Contest? Every entry a Winner! Check out
last issue for details:
http://anyfrontpage.com/bytes/archives/vol1/issue7vol1.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **VALENTINE'S DAY FREEWARE**
(Because we love you - smile)
Make your first stop Wulfert.com for Desktop
themes galore!
http://www.wulfert.com/theme/holiday-valentine.html
~~Betty Boop taking her Valentine’s
Day bubble bath, ("I Wanna Be LOVED By You -oo")
~~Dolly Valentine roses - Icons, cursors,
sounds, all logo and webs.
~~Hearts and Cupids Theme - with matching
ICQ skin, Winamp skin and Screen Saver.
~~Be My Valentine - all the extras, system
logos, screen savers, music by Nat KIng Cole
and Frank Sinatra.
~~Cherubs asking to be my valentine with
matching Hot Bar, Winamp and ICQ Skin.
~~Big Ted – A fluffy cream bear - Sitting in
a bed of rose blooms and asking you - "be my
Valentine?" includes icons, cursors, sounds and
all logo and web screens.
~~If Your Heart Aint Busy Tonight - pretty
romantic theme that features Tanya Tuckers
song.
~~Heart shaped balloons emblazoned with "I
Love You" and sounds from "I Love you
Because" by Jim Reeves. All cursors, webs,
icons and logos.
~~Wind Beneath My Wings theme - Logos and
fun puzzle, 3D active and inactive wallpaper,
the active has hearts floating from the mouse
cursor.
Many of these are from the celebrated graphic
artist, Margert Corsen.
Plus there are giraffes and bees and purple
and lace and Celine Dion and teddybears in
love and candy hearts <sigh>
Also check out T & P SC
http://www.tnpsc.com/ssaver/valentines.htm
for free Valentine Puzzle Games for Windows.
Choose from the Novice to the Intermediate
levels. Valentine screensavers include
"Valentine Frogs Screen Saver" & "Stupid
Cupid Screen Saver" among others.
Did we mention that Valentine Postcards are
also there for the special cyber people on your
list?
What’s Not To Love? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Top
TIPS AND TRICKS
QUICK ACCESS TO FREQUENTLY USED
COMMANDS
In FP2002 Task Pane allows you easy
access to such frequently used commands
as:
Open a Page
New
New From Existing Page
New from Template
Add Network Place
To open the Task Pane goto View | Task
Pane, and it will appear on the right hand side
of your screen. From the Task Pane you can
also access FrontPage Help. To close click the
X in the upper right hand corner of the Task
Pane.
TIP: When you use commands like 'Normal
Page Template', they are then automatically
added to the New Page or Web Task Pane.
You can click a box at the bottom of the pane
configuring it to 'show at startup'
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MODIFYING THEMES
FrontPage 2002 has 67 Free themes and you
can modify any of them. Themes apply
consistent fonts and other formatting across a
single page or all pages in your site. Themes
have coordinated bullets, buttons, background,
page banner, horizontal line, and font styles.
First you must have a new or existing web
open in FP02 then goto: Format | Themes, On
the left you will find the list box, select your
theme and a preview will appear in the 'Sample
of Theme' pane on the right.
To customise select the modify button.
Under 'What would you like to modify', select:
Colors - Button to change the color scheme.
Graphics - Button to change the graphics.
Text - Button to change the text styles used in
a Theme.
Click OK and you are returned to the Themes
Dialog box.
Under Apply Them to: make a choice whether
to Apply changes to 'All Pages' or 'Selected
Page(s) for the web. Click Save As, enter a
name for the modified theme and click ok.
Tip: In customizing a theme you must save
your changes under a new name, you cannot
overwrite a preset theme.
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CHANGE THE ORDER OF FP FORM
RESULTS
You can change the order in which your
FrontPage form results are displayed within the
Form Properties dialog box:
Right click in the form in normal view.
Select Form Properties
Click the Options button
Click the Saved Fields tab
The order in which the fields are listed in this
screen should be the order in which the results
are displayed.
Cut and paste the form field names within this
screen to the order you want to receive the
results.
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FrontPage: front-page adj. Worthy of coverage
on the front page of a newspaper: front-page
news.
Database: da·ta·base n. A collection of data
arranged for ease and speed of search and
retrieval.
Wizard: wiz·ard n. One who practices magic; a
sorcerer or magician.
So you put all of that together and what do you
get? Great news! You can put your data in
your FrontPage web and your customers will
think you're a magician!
Seriously, many people will tell you that you
need to learn VBScript and ASP to put
database on the web. To some extent, that true,
and it's probably not a bad idea, if you have the
time and some exposure to programming
concepts and languages. It will also put you in
a better position to support web sites using
software other than FrontPage (gasp!).
Someday, I plan on learning it myself. But, I'm
here to tell you that it's not necessary for most
of what your customers will want you to do.
The two most important things you need to
know about the FrontPage Database Wizard
(also known as the DRW or the DBRW) are:
1. Do not ever ever modify the maroon colored
code in the HTML view of your DBRW page;
make your changes in the gray colored code
and save your changes while you're still in HTML
view. Once the save is done, you will see that
your changes have also been made to the
maroon colored code.
2. Learn SQL (Structured Query Language),
or at least have access to a good SQL resource.
There's a Microsoft Knowledgebase article titled
"SQL Syntax Generated by the FrontPage
Database Results Wizard"; it can be found here:
http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/rd/mssql.asp
I recommend you add it to your favorites -
someday you will need it.
Here's my tip for this month: did you know that
the Search Field and the Search Results don't
have to be on the same page? Yes, it's true.
You can have your search page pass the search
criteria to the results page, and the added bonus
is that you can also eliminate the "No records
found" message your users get when they first
load the search page. Here's how:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/kathleen.htm
Over the next few months, I'll be writing about
the things I've learned you can (and can't) do
with the FrontPage Database Wizard. Some of
them I learned from others, some I taught
myself, and some came to life because
someone said to me: "You can't do that with the
DBRW" and I proved them wrong! I love a
challenge!
Kathleen Anderson, FP MVP is an
accomplished IT pro and a leading expert on
website accessibility issues. Owner of Spider
Web Woman Designs:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
She specializes in accessible websites for
small businesses and non-profits. See her site
for excellent FrontPage resources.
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You will be welcomed to his site,
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whimsical (check out the 'Eternally Under
Construction' sign!)
Stefan doesn't presently have a site dedicated to
FrontPage as 'SBR Enjoy' is keeping him busy
with demos & client testing as he customizes
Microsoft® Office® Applications for the use of
Standard Office® Tools or custom code (Visual
Basic for Applications) to automate data
processing or analysis.
FREE FP ADD-ON:
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Start accepting credit cards online with PayPal
immediately. Paypal setup is free, and there are
no monthly fees. You pay only a small
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Features include:
Increased protection for online merchants via its
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Standard services include instant availability of
funds.
Scalable and proven payments platform.
24/7 customer service via email.
Extended business hour telephone customer
service.
This add-on is provided free of charge but they
ask "PLEASE DONATE IF YOU USE IT!" ($5)
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ATTENTION:
Did you know the Free Microsoft Quizzing
Engine was no longer available from Microsoft?
We have it from the horses mouth (only took 7
emails and 3 weeks with a side venture into
excel - don't ask) to find out that the Education
section will no longer support it so it was not
deemed worthy to stay .. HOWEVER: We do
our best and we have found a good alternative for
you. It is FREE containing adware, but you can
pay to have this taken off.
Measure user preferences and attitudes to know
what your customers think.Test learning
effectiveness through online quiz assessment -
any time, anywhere via the Internet or your
corporate intranet.
When we are GOOD, we are BAD! (smile)
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~ FrontPage Links:
Computer Training 2000
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/ct.htm
How -To Articles on FrontPage 2000
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Teacher Resource
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/teach.htm
Tutorials on FP 98 and FP2k
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Templatecafe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templatecafe/
For people to share template ideas. Powerpoint,
Excel, FrontPage. Advice and knowledge sharing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FPExpress101
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FPExpress101/
Basically to see if there is any interest in
FrontPage Express even though it has been
dropped by MS.
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StoreFront50/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StoreFront50/
StoreFront 5.0 Software Users Information
Database SQL Access other StoreFront
Versions Merchant Add-in's Customize
E-Commerce Sale Merchandise Windows 2000
IE5.5 FrontPage 02
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Advanced web templates
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/advancedwebtemplates/
For all those people serious about Web Design
and for all those of you who have made
templates in Livemotion, ImageStyler,
Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or any other web
design package. This is the ultimate place to
trade your templates and share resources. Also
if any of you are interested in other people using
your templates for commercial use, email the
group owner! If your templates are good enough
and used anywhere, you will get paid for your
templates.
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~ General Resources
The Lockergnome Tips Help File is available
for download. Swing by and swipe your copy.
Latest version is 0201 and has been updated
to contain January 2002's tips from Chris
Pirillo's Daily Lockergnome Newsletter.
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/vgw.htm
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UK Based
http://www.mirago.co.uk
Mirago, a UK-based search engine, has just
launched a regional search facility to enable
users to narrow down what they are looking for
to a regional, town or village location. To define
the area you want click on the UK map and
target your search accordingly.
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~ General Links
KarenWare
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/kw.htm
Free Power Tools - not to be missed!
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$400,000 worth of cash and prizes will be
awarded in this worldwide contest. Deadline is
March 1st 2002 for the seven professional
developer categories. [ out of date link - removed ]
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GCF Global Learning
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/gcf.htm
GCF offer Self-Paced courses and
Instructor-Supported classes. All classes are
free and conducted online.
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ExtSearch
http://www.extsearch.com/
This search engine lets you query 2,246 file
extensions.
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Webopedia
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/wp.htm
Data Formats and Their File Extensions.
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