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AccessFP Bytes - The Bit in the middle!
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Designing and crafting with FrontPage
Issue 11, Volume 1, 12th February 2001!
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Editor: Tina Clarke,
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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. Wassup @ AccessFP List
4. Guest Article or Tip - "WYSIWYG"
5. Sponsors
6. Featured Site of the week
7. Weekly Links and Resources
8. Subscription Management
9. Contact Information
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Did you know that AccessFP Ezine has a site and list to go
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not to mention the AnyFrontPage Forums.
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1. WELCOME FROM TINA
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Welcome to "AnyFrontPage Bytes - The Bit in the
middle". These weekly issues are the Lite version of
AccessFP Ezine containing snippets of news, links and
resources.
My aim with this Lite version is to bring you FrontPage
goodies, links and news that you can't do without each
week. If you have any feedback, suggestions, gripes or
compliments, please let me know I really would like your
feedback about the ezine's, what do you think of the
content? The layout? Do you want more of something or
something else included; I need your feedback to find out.
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This weeks article consists of WYSIWYG By Steven Fredette. Steven is a valued member and moderator of the AccessFP List and owns the most excellent website:
http://www.prowebsites.net/frontpagehelp
Tina Clarke
This FREE publication by AccessFP Bytes is sent ONLY to
people who have requested it. Helping YOU out there! Since
6th November 2000.
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2 GENERALLY SPEAKING
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UPDATES:
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Outfront Templates
http://www.outfront.net/frontpagetemplates.htm
We've added Swish Templates to our template line up! Easy to edit to fit your site's needs and easy to implement within your FrontPage web. Instructions are posted if you need help. Have a look!
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AUSCOMP E-NAVIGATOR SUITE http://www.auscomp.biz/ FREE UPGRADE V.6.7
For existing registered customers of V.6+
NOW WITH A HANDY CALENDAR
Try out the new fully customisable CALENDAR to compliment
all the other great Command Center features:
- 'Smart Surf' Internet Search
- 'Atomic' Site Search
- Content Management
- News &
- Security etc...
FREE - OTHER AUSCOMP SOFTWARE
- Add On Packs x 3 (for Auscomp eNavigator Suite customers)
- 1st Theme Factory for FrontPage x 3 (Series 1, Sports & Entertainment)
- 3D Icon Library
- Sound Effect Studio
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DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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Pop up a Programme today!
Did you know that you could switch between different programs with the keyboard? Just press ALT + Tab and a box pops up with all the icons of the
programme's that you have up. Hold down the alt key and tab between them, when you let go of the alt key that programme pops up.
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3 Wassup @ AccessFP List
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPList
Wassup at the AccessFP List? Find out every week here or join at the link above and find out for yourself.
This week Steven Fredette of http://www.prowebsites.net
Gave us the reference to the following chilling news.
"So he spent a few hours learning JavaScript and found that if he embedded "document.body.innerText" into an e-mail, he could access the message once it was forwarded to other people if they were using HTML/Java-enabled readers."
Ref: [ out of date link - removed ]
But he followed it with a good suggestion.
Protect yourself at:
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/commentary/tipsheet.html
(Scroll to the bottom and pick your eMail client). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Linda Johnson of http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com
Told us:
I just found this site and thought I'd share it
http://www.findsounds.com/
She's right it's a great resource.
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More next week from our motley 'crew' at the AccessFP List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPList
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4 Guest Article - WYSIWYG
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WYSIWYG
Two carpenters were having lunch together. As they enjoyed their midday nourishment, one of them looked at the others tool belt, and saw a hammer made by Stanley. Knowing his was a Craftsman brand, he knew at once that he was the superior carpenter.
In the Microsoft's FrontPage 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage
VS Macromedia's DreamWeaver
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver
battle there are those that would have you believing the above tale as true. As though anyone could actually tell the quality of work done, by the tool used. This way of thinking is of course ludicrous and unprofessional. Yet there are many in the Web design industry that would have you believe just this.
How some came to thinking this way is due to many factors:
1 Pride in the tool they use (instead of pride in the work they do).
2 Believing in marketing hype.
3 Because "so and so" said so.
The list could go on. Though, these seem to be the prevalent reasons and have nothing to do with professionalism. The true professional keeps in mind many factors in selecting their tools.
1 Ease of use.
2 Site management capabilities. (If one moves a file into a sub directory, are links to this file updated automatically, or does one have to hunt down all links and updated them manually?)
3 Cross platform coding (Though with Internet Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie
at about 85% in the majority of site statistics, this is not as important as it once was).
4 What the client may be using to do updates to a Web site.
5 Price.
6 Special features (does it have Java Scripts, DHTML, etc ready to add, and configure?)
Most WYSISYGs have most of these. Which leaves ease of use, what the client is using and price as the main considerations. It would seem that Microsoft's FrontPage 2000 would be the hands down winner here. Does this mean that one should not have Macromedia's DreamWeaver as their tool? Of course not, but when viewed against the criteria, it doesn't deliver the same "bang for the buck", nor is your average client going to be using it (or have the time to learn it).
In conclusion, at this time there is no perfect WYSIWYG out there, though using a combination of Microsoft's FrontPage 2000 and Evrsoft's free First Page V2 (was 1st Page 2000)
http://www.evrsoft.com, one can focus on making great Web sites. Isn't that what it's all about to start with?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Steven Fredette is the President of ProWebSites.net, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. USA. He has been in the IT biz since 1997, and still runs one of the first sites to offer MS FP help. He has received offers, from well wishers, to apply him for MVP, and to be a tech adviser to an FP book, though he prefers to concentrate solely on Web design.
Visit: http://www.prowebsites.net/frontpagehelp
Web design and Microsoft FrontPage tutorials.
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6 FEATURED SITE OF THE WEEK
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7 WEEKLY LINKS AND RESOURCES
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****General Links****
Do Language Translation On Your Computer
http://office.microsoft.com/services/service.aspx?sid=3.1
Translate e-mail messages, documents, and presentations with this handy free tool from Microsoft Office eServices. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WEBackgrounds - Price $29.00
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WEBackgrounds is a collection of 100 professionally created backgrounds that can be used with any of your Web design projects. Simply chose the look of your Web site by browsing through the WEBackgrounds library on CD-ROM and add the appropriate text to the backgrounds.
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The product comes with easy-to-use wizard interface that will guides you through the 5 steps of lighting, text entry, bevelling, assigning materials and adding motion. There are over 140 highly detailed Pre-Built 3D Objects. Over 200 predefined bevels materials and more. There is also a FREE trial at:
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****FrontPage Links****
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Theme Store
http://www.fp-themestore.com/
FrontPage Themes are designed byTheme Store for Microsoft FrontPage 98 and 2000. They have viewlets and FrontPage help tutorials on methods of making your themes. Their themes also contain templates and are of a high quality. Well worth a visit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Password protection
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/solutions/0,8224,2658274,00.html
Small article about Password protection at zdnet
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Using the FP Server Extensions with FreeBSD 3.3 & Apache
http://freebsd.lanfear.com/howtos/frontpage.html
This HOWTO-like document is an attempt to describe my experiences setting up the FrontPage server extensions on a FreeBSD 3.3 system running the Apache web server. There are a good three or four web sites out there that try to describe this process, but all leave one or two major things out that prevent it from fully working.
Suggested by Rod Cushman
http://www.champfitness.com/
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Platform: Linux - Console
Version Number: 1.3.9-3.0
License: GPL
ftp://missinglink.darkorb.net/pub/frontpage/
Description: Mod_frontpage is a patch to add frontpage support to apache 1.x.x
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For our 'Spotlight on FrontPage', this week AccessFP Focuses on FREE FrontPage hosts/isps with FrontPage extensions
@freeweb.com
[ out of date link - removed ]
Tripod
Tripod Bizland
[ out of date link - removed ] Tony-Net
[ out of date link - removed ]
WebHostMe.com
http://www.webhostme.com/default.asp Welshnet (ISP)
http://www.welshnet.co.uk/mambo/index.php Force 9
Force9 (ISP) HyperMart
[ out of date link - removed ] Yahoo! GeoCities
[ out of date link - removed ]
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