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Microsoft FrontPage Tips & Tutorials Have you heard rumors that FrontPage is being discontinued and will no longer be part of Microsoft Office in the 2007 version? Well, that is correct. Microsoft's new alternatives to FrontPage are SharePoint Designer (for offices using SharePoint Server) and Expression Web Designer (for web designers in general). Read more here. (Special thanks to Tina Clarke at AccessFP Resource Centre. Not only is she a whiz at FrontPage, but she definitely has one of the most helpful FrontPage websites on the net. I can't tell you how many times she has patiently answered questions for me. Tina...you are the best, girl!!)
AND, she writes a FrontPage column in my Web-azine ... hop on over to ABC and check out Tina's FrontPage News in the archives. Check out my latest TechTrax articles: Adding a Dropdown Menu To a Web Page Intimidated by Perl/CGI scripting? Check out my buddy Steve's Learn CGI Scripting in Two Hours or Less eBook. FINALLY a way to understand all this! Tutorial for adding SWISH or Flash animations to your FP Web Tutorial for Resizing Graphics in some of the more popular graphics programs. Do you run a message board using the discussion Web feature of FrontPage and you've always wanted to receive an eMail when someone posts to it?
Read these tutorials at ProWebSites and Any FrontPage Bytesill show you how to make this happen! Who says FrontPage can't handle the cool stuff? Check this out!! Make your site STANDOUT in your viewer's Favorites: This only works for viewers using Internet Explorer, but it is sooooo cool! If you want your listing in Internet Explorer's Favorites list to standout from the rest, try this. Search your hard drive for *.ico and find all the icon files on your computer. Pick one you like (or download one from the internet....just go to any search engine and search on the word "icon"). Now, copy it into your FrontPage web......put it in your root directory, NOT in your images folder, and rename this icon, "favicon.ico" (without the quotes). Now, publish your web (or upload favicon.ico to your root directory via FTP). Now, when anyone adds your site to their Favorites, this icon will appear by your site's name in their Favorite's list. Try it now! If you are using Internet Explorer, add this page to your Favorites now and you will see the new icon I have added. Sure stands out from the rest of those E's, doesn't it? (Note: If you have previously added this page to your Favorites, you may have to delete it and add it again now to see the icon.)
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If you have both FrontPage and Internet Explorer opened, you can use drag-and-drop to preview pages. In Folders view, select the page's icon and drag it down to the IE button on the taskbar. Hover there for a second, and the browser window will pop up. Move the mouse pointer anywhere on the window and release the mouse button. Your page appears, ready for you to preview. One of my favorite things about FrontPage is how easily it incorporates pages created in other Office programs. For example, this calendar was created in MS Publisher 2000, saved as a webpage and imported into FrontPage. It took about 4 minutes to do. And, my résumé was created in MS Word 2000, saved as a webpage and imported into FrontPage in a jiffy also. You can also create presentations in PowerPoint 2000, spreadsheets in Excel 2000, and databases in Access 2000 which are easily saved as webpages and imported into FrontPage. Jobs that, with any other web design software, can be monumental. Try it yourself and you will see how easy it is! Read my article from AnyFrontPageBytes which tells more about how to do this. When you click on a link in your web page, do you see a little hook at the lower right corner of your graphic?
Some of my favorite sites, where you can learn lots more about FrontPage : Beautiful
FrontPage themes here: If you are like me and rely on FrontPage to do most things for you, you can be stumped when you have an occasional need to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for manual uploading of files. Two great sites that will help you are FTP 101 Beginner's Guide and Uploading Web Pages To Your Host . Having trouble setting a background in a table and getting it to display in Netscape? The background attribute works differently in Netscape and Internet Explorer when it is applied to a table. In Explorer, the image will appear over the entire background of the table. But in Navigator the image will repeat in each cell of the table. To make Navigator duplicate the look of Explorer, you need to enclose the table into another table with only one cell. Give the background image to that outer table, but be sure to have an invisible GIF as the background of the inner table. Need some simple HTML code for a table, graphic or link? Try the HTML Code Generator .... just plug in what you want and it will generate the code for you. Want to add dropdown menus to your pages? Ones with hyperlinks even? Check out the free Dropdown Menu Generator Having difficulties understanding CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)? Here's some links that will help you: Want more FrontPage tips and advice? Subscribe to this monthly newsletter: FrontPage 2000 keyboard shortcuts |
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