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Editor: Tina Clarke
Issue 4 Vol a: 25th March 2006 Members: 2,395

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FrontPage News

~ Editors ramblings

Well I sort of forgot to publish anything since the last issue, sorry it's been so long folks. I have been busy with other things though. Not least a trip to America at the beginning of April to see my brother get married (Boston).

In January I was made a FrontPage MVP for the second year running which was very nice.

I also launched my FrontPage Tips site which sends out weekly FrontPage Tips and recently produced a FrontPage Tips, Vol l Ebook for sale at the launch price of $5. Shortly followed by a Free Ebook about Dynamic Web Templates both ebooks available from FrontPage Ebooks

I've redone the templates for frontpage-ebooks.com and anyfrontpage.com to use divs in the css sheet, previously it looked horrendous in Firefox. I've got to catch up with redoing the templates on my other sites yet though.

I've updated my FrontPage Addons site and sent out a recent issue.

Projects in the works are to make a free ebook out of my includes article and to produce more ebooks. The major project for the rest of the year will be to make a new template for accessfp.net and completely redo the content and layout, a massive job. Using DWTs though and various other FrontPage tools that part of the job will be easy, updating the content and deciding what to keep or throw out will be hard part. I also hope to make some flash tutorials for FrontPage. Last but not least I also hope to make a completely new art site.

~ FrontPage News

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2) FrontPage Cleaner - FrontPage Clean up Utility (Free Addon) FPCleaner is a simple utility that will find and delete temporary files left behind after an improper shutdown caused by power failure or a system error. FP Cleaner only removes files associated with the User logged onto the computer. This utility will save you some time and effort when attempting repairs get the latest update.

3) There is a new listing of Microsoft MVP - FrontPage.

The MVP Award, which stands for "Most Valuable Professional" is an annual award given to outstanding members of Microsoft's peer-to-peer communities. The following list contains all of the names of the current MVPs who have received awards for the 2005 - 2006 award cycle. We welcome two new MVPs.

Cheryl D. Wise Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://mvp.wiserways.com/
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Chris Leeds Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://nedp.net/
http://contentseed.com/
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Christoph Schneegans Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://schneegans.de/frontpage/
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David J. Berry Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103924/
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Gregory A. Beamer Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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James S. Huggins Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://JamesSHuggins.com
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Jens Peter Karlsen Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Jim Buyens Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.interlacken.com
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Jon Spivey Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.roksteady.net/menus/
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Kathleen Anderson Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
http://msmvps.com/spiderwebwoman/
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Kevin Spencer Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.takempis.com/
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Louise Villeneuve Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.lino.com/~vmartino/logiciel.htm
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Mark E. Fitzpatrick Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Mike Naughton Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/
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Paul Colligan Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://frontpageworld.com/
http://frontpagetalk.com/
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Riccardo Rausch Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.rausch.it/
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Ron Symonds Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.rxs-enterprises.com/cgi-bin/btifaqs.pl
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Stefan B. Rusynko Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://sbrenjoy.bizland.com/
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Steve Easton Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://95isalive.com/fixes/index.htm
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Thomas A. Rowe Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Thomas D. Willett Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Tiffany K Edmonds Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://frontpage-ebooks.com/
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Tina Clarke Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://accessfp.net/
http://addonfp.com/
http://anyfrontpage.com/
http://frontpage-tips.com/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/frontpage/
http://frontpage-ebooks.com/
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NEW Yoshie Kohama Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://blogs.msmvp.jp/wanichan/
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NEW Ian Haynes Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.data-insite.co.uk/devnews/fpexamples.asp

FrontPage Article

Which FrontPage technique (to help visitors find content) benefits you most?

Search,
Table of Contents
Site Map

Which is easiest to set up, avoids unwanted results, and makes your website more Search Engine (SE) friendly?

Check this comparison of three (3) web-Bots FrontPage provides for finding content.

FrontPage BOT	Pro	Con
SEARCH	Convenient for Visitor to find content based on search terms. Easy to implement.	May return results not intended for viewing. Does not make website more SE friendly
CATEGORY	Easy and flexible way to organize content. Good control over what is displayed. Can make website more SE friendly.	Visitors may find it less convenient compared to a Search Bot. Requires creation and maintenance of Categories for site content, which can be problematic with a very large site.
TABLE OF CONTENTS	Easy to implement. Can make website more SE friendly.	May return results not intended for viewing. Not easy to style, though MenuPlus Addon can be used.

NOTE: FrontPage 2003 and 2002 designate Category-Bots as another version of the Table of Contents web component ("Based on Page Category").

Site Map Benefits

This method offers numerous benefits among which are;

Visitor convenience -- a well planned Site-Map makes clear what is available and provides easy access.

Easy layout -- using FrontPage Bots and setting up associations is pretty simple. Bot locations determine where your output links appear. Bot category associations determine which links get listed.

Suppress Unwanted output -- links to items not intended for viewing are eliminated by simply not associating those pages (images and/or files) with FrontPage categories in use.

Content management -- you can retire out-of-date content gracefully. Just remove the page association with the category and it disappears from the map index. Spiders still send traffic to retired pages even though (retired) page links no longer appear in the map. You could associate retired pages with an 'archive' or 'past publications' category, if appropriate.

SE friendly -- index pages help Spiders find your content. If your index lists links to pages with similar theme content, that index page might enjoy a higher rank where that theme is concerned.

To learn more about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) I highly recommended Cricket's Free SEO Classes. This link includes an overview of the free classes, along with a link to class registration.
BOTH the SEO Class and the Marketing Class are required. One must join both BEFORE one's membership will be approved.

Site Map Mechanics
The following image shows how FrontPage Category Bots are stacked one after the other. I used a table to contain Bots and headings. Any pages associated with a check-marked category have their Title appear as a hot link in the resulting list.
You can set things up so that a page link appears in multiple sections of the same map. This is accomplished by associating a listed page with more than one category.
For example, If I have an article about an FrontPage Macro you can download -- I associate that page with both the 'Add-in' and 'Download' categories. The result is the page title shows up as a hotlink in both those category listings, thus appearing twice on the map.
From the image below, you can see layout and order are a matter of positioning the desired headers and FrontPage Category Bots. This flexibility a huge advantage over other FrontPage approaches. As priorities change, it's nice to have an easy way to reorder things.
Setting the category associations for a site map
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Firstly you need to categorise some pages in order to create the sitemap based on categories. Click the 'Folders' button on the 'View' Menu bar and right click the page you want to assign to a category, click properties, which will open the ‘Page Properties’ Dialog box, though in this case it will named for the page your working on. Click the ‘Workgroup’ tab; in the ‘Available Categories’ box click the category you want to assign to this page.
You can select multiple categories so that a single page can appear in multiple categories on your site map.
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FrontPage Links

Inside Microsoft FrontPage - May 2005 Index
1. Creating JavaScript techniques to customize FrontPage's abilities for your particular needs.
2. Ideas on proper image preparation and site design.
3. How to work around bugs for continued productivity.
4.Integrating FrontPage with ancillary programs such as Image Composer, PhotoDraw, GIF Animator, Internet Explorer/Netscape Navigator and other Office applications.
5. How to create a photo-rich Web page in an instant.
6. Charting usage reports to better understand data about your visitors. And more!

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