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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. Wassup @ AccessFP List
4. Guest Article or Tip - "Privacy Policy"
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7. Weekly Links and Resources
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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
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This weeks article consists of "Privacy Policy" by Tina Clarke
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2 GENERALLY SPEAKING
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DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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FrontPage 2000 Search Bot.
The FrontPage 2000 Search Form Component requires FrontPage Server Extensions in order to function; otherwise you
receive an error message.
The quickest and easiest way to add a FrontPage search engine to your site is with the Search Page Template.
File | New | Page | Search Page (tick 'Just add web task') and click ok.
You can also add a search engine by choosing Insert | Component | Search Form.
The search bot is quite limited compared to other third party applications but it gets the job done.
You cannot add or remove buttons but can change a few things.
Double click the component to open the Search Form Properties dialog box. You can change the label on the text box, the width of the text box and the text on two buttons.
FrontPage 2000 creates a text index of the words used on each page in your web, with the exception of 3000 common words such as 'a,' 'an,' and 'the,' this index contains all of the words that appear in the web. When you have entered your text and clicked the button the component will create a results page containing links to the web pages where the search text is found.
You can modify the results by editing the properties, file sizes, dates and times they were last updated and their scores can be modified. The score represents how often the search terms show up on the page and the form component ranks the results based on that figure.
You can limit a search to a specific folder of your web; enter the folder name in the 'word list to search' text box on the search results tab. For example, if you have a web folder called medical that contains the text of several articles made by you, put medical in the 'word list to search' text box. The search form component won't look through the contents of any other part of your web.
So if you have a large web you can offer several targeted searches by placing more than one search form component on the same page.
FrontPage automatically creates the searchable text index for a web and each of the folders within it, each new word that is added to a page will show up within the index, excepting the 300 most common as mentioned above.
However one thing FrontPage won't do unless you rebuild the web by recalculating the hyperlinks is remove words that you have deleted from a page after they have been added and saved. One should ALWAYS recalculate hyperlinks BEFORE publishing to the web after editing the site. Also once a week or once a month if your editing is not heavy, open up the site on the web live and recalculate online. This helps when publishing as the whole site has to be indexed for changes and files and folders built during publishing.
Recalculating hyperlinks can take several minutes depending on how large your site is and how many hyperlinks on your pages link to sites on the www as it simultaneously looks at all the hyperlinks on your site to see if they are still valid.
Search results are displayed on the same page as the search component and they cannot be redirected to another page.
The search results tab has different options if you have opened your web directly from the server that's hosting it, rather than opening a web stored on your system. (Depending if you have permissions)
You can configure a search to cover the web you are editing, all webs hosted on the same machine, or just a specific folder on your web, you can also change the number of items that are listed on a search page. Again don't forget to choose Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks to rebuild the word index that's used during searches.
If you don't want certain pages showing up in your search results like include pages put them all in a folder beginning with an underscore like so _myfolder
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3 Wassup @ AccessFP List
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Wassup at the AccessFP List? Find out every week here or join at the link above and find out for yourself.
Steven Fredette moderator of the list and CEO of http://www.prowebsites.net/
suggested I add a disclaimer in the footer of the AccessFP List saying "Any ad seen in this posting is not endorsed by ...." When I mentioned out to the list that I was not happy with one of the ads that Yahoogroups had inserted The list and Ezine are Free for me to use so I'm not complaining about the ads insertion, I just don't endorse them though. AccessFP only endorses ads within the content of the Ezine. If you have a list or Ezine consider do this this too.
Linda Johnson owner of
http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/
Has been featured this week in lockergnome.com in the sidebar not to mention the Langa list
http://www.langa.com/newsletter.htm?accessfp.net
I hear tell she is going to be featured in another one to. Her second ebook is done and I'll tell you about that as soon as it's got it's spit and polish. Did you take a look at her excellent word magic?
http://newbieclub.com/wordmagic/?accessfp
More next week from our motley 'crew' at the AccessFP List
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4 Guest Article - "Privacy Policy"
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Privacy Policy - Do you need one?
Well to develop user confidence and trust this can make a good start on your website. The ideas behind a Privacy Policy or statement are to inform visitors about the information and uses which a website puts the information it may collect to.
Also some sites have joined privacy coalitions or initiatives, which they hope will set standards that, will be recognised as industry norms, such as the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), this allows surfers to automate how their personal identification information is applied, and the need to read every site's PP is negated. This is done via Web browsers with the ability to automatically read privacy policies. It accomplishes this feat by embedding technology in the user's browser that can confirm whether a site's privacy practices meets the user's predefined privacy preferences. Protocols like this however will only gradually be introduced to the public amid fears that the average user who, non-technical by nature, will have difficulty understanding the vocabulary involved with setting up P3P.
A privacy policy could or should contain the following:
1 Who operates the site with one method of contact at the very least. Do not forget to include the country within which you operate.
2 What information the website gathers or tracks about visitors. For instance this could include links to information about the use of cookies and any other tracking methods.
3 How the website uses the information it gathers or tracks. Sometimes an accurate statement of these uses can make the difference between breaking the law or being legal.
4 With whom the website shares the information it gathers or tracks. This need not be a comprehensive list but should indicate which information is disclosed, if this is not all that is gathered. Also an explanation of how potential recipients are selected and the general nature of such a policy including the frequency of such actions should be included. The information disclosed should, of course, only be that for which the operator has registered with the Data Protection Register. (UK specific)
The UK Data Protection Act 1998 was adopted in July 1998. It entered into force on 1st March 2000 together with the supporting secondary legislation (available on the Home Office website at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk
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5 Details of the websites Opt-Out policy.
6 The websites policy on correcting and updating personally identifiable information.
7 The policy of the site operator on deleting or deactivating visitors names and other details from its database.
8 An email link to, or statement identifying, an individual as the nominated contact point if any visitor or user has a question or query about the statement or the website.
9 A statement about what happens if your site gets hacked.
What can you do to help?
When you arrive at a site look for the PP and use it. If you do not find a privacy policy, email the Web site and ask them to post one. If a site is ethical they will get on to it straight away.
For those businesses that can afford it, they should have a Privacy seal which assures the visitor that they are standing by their PP. BBBOnLine
http://www.bbbonline.org/
a subsidiary of the Council of Better Business Bureaus), http://www.CPAWebTrust.org/
and TRUSTe.org seals http://www.truste.org/
all provide and maintain a system for companies to show that they mean what they say. This system deals with complaints by consumers who may feel that they have suffered a privacy breach. If you feel that the company is sufficiently endowed to afford one, write and ask them to get one.
HOW TO VERIFY IF A SITE IS LICENSED BY TRUSTe?
How do you verify if a web site is in fact licensed by TRUSTe?
TRUSTe notes that their trust mark should be linked to the site's privacy statement. Once you get to the site's privacy statement page, scroll down and look for the TRUSTe click to verify seal.
All licensees must post the click-to-verify seal on their privacy statements. Clicking on the seal takes you to TRUSTe's secure server and verifies that the site is indeed a legal licensee of TRUSTe. To find out what TRUSTe click-to-verify seal looks like, go to
http://www.truste.org/users/users_how.html
and look under TRUSTe Oversight and Resolution.
If you find a violation, let them know, doing so protects Privacy standards for all.
Children's Privacy - Do you need to comply with COPPA?
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm
Just because you have some referral links on your site does not mean you must comply with the law, it's basically down to the communication you have with your visitors and if you know weather or not they are under 13 years of age.
Do you host chats? Maybe message boards and newsletters? What about lists and guestbooks? Does the Guestbook ask for names and email addresses? Is it not making that information available to third parties?
Where can you find more information about Privacy?
How to Comply With The Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/ftc-2000-02-p1.html (USA specific)
Privacy wizards.
http://www.etrust.com/wizard/
http://privacy.linkexchange.com/
http://www.the-dma.org/privacy/privacypolicygenerator.shtml
http://cs3-hq.oecd.org/scripts/pwv3/Login.asp
Rules and tools for protecting personal privacy online.
http://www.privacyalliance.org/about/privacypolicy.shtml
Data Privacy http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/040399.htm
Data Protection http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/230999.htm
http://www.getnetwise.org/
United Kingdom - UK Data Protection Registrar
http://www.open.gov.uk/dpr/dprhome.htm
United States - Federal Trade Commission
http://www.doc.gov/
Internet content rating association
http://www.icra.org/
By Tina Clarke
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6 FEATURED SITE OF THE WEEK
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If you know of a site that is worthy of being featured in AccessFP Bytes submit it today at:
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If your recommended site is featured it goes into a draw for in three months time and the winner will receive a TOP ad space in the monthly AccessFP Ezine.
Featured Site-------
ZPaint
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
I found this link at lockergnome.com and downloaded it. It is missing some bells and whistles but is great for the buttons it makes.
"Forget your button maker! This software for creating 3D-looking elements for websites and software interfaces is much more flexible. Easily paint raised or lowered shapes such as buttons, rings, boxes... or add those effects to existing graphics. Color/texture selection, adjustable extrusion depth, gloss and other effects. Used best in cooperation with an image editor."
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7 WEEKLY LINKS AND RESOURCES
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****General Links****
HTML for Beginners
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/beghtml.asp
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How to Query the Microsoft Knowledge Base Using Keywords
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q242/4/50.ASP
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DRAG A WEB PAGE SHORTCUT INTO AN OUTLOOK MESSAGE
http://news.microsoft.co.uk/ins02040112229
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ADD FAVORITES WITH ONE KEYSTROKE
http://news.microsoft.co.uk/ins02040112230
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Power Defrag 2.00
http://www.powerdefrag.com/
Power Defrag 2.00 is a system tool for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME which improves the performance of the Microsoft disk defragmenter tool and prevents some common types of crashes.
Power Defrag 2.00 comes in two flavours:
Power Defrag 2.00 Lite is freeware. It can be distributed freely with no limitations except that it may not be sold.
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TOUCHING UP PHOTOS IN PHOTODRAW
http://news.microsoft.co.uk/ins02040112228
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MS FrontPage 2000 Product Enhancements Guide
http://www.accessfp.net/technet.htm?accessfp.net
TECHNET this is where you can find more tutorials from Microsoft on 98 and 2000. Start looking now.
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FP2000: How to Preserve Alterations to Outline.js and Animate.js Files
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/1/24.ASP
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FP2000: "Enable Collapsible Outlines" Option Does Not Appear in Bullets and Numbering Dialog Box
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q219/9/70.ASP
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FP2000: Collapsing and Expanding Outlines Using OnMouseOver Event
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q208/6/44.ASP
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