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Designing
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Issue 8, Volume 1, 22 January 2001!
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Editor: Tina Clarke,
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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. ASK ME A QUESTION
4. Guest Article or Tip - "Tips Galore"
5. Sponsors
6. Featured Site of the week
7. Weekly Links and Resources
8. Subscription Management
9. Contact Information
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1. WELCOME FROM TINA
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Welcome
to "AccessFP Bytes - The Bit in the middle".
These weekly issues are the Lite version of AccessFP Ezine
containing snippets of news, links and resources.
After you have finished reading AccessFP Bytes if you need
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My aim with this Lite version is to bring you FrontPage
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This weeks article is by Your Editor Tina Clarke and consists of a number of Tips named "Tips Galore"
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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Seems everyone is updating their software. Lots to tell you this week.
**Item 1**
FrontLook Series 3 for FrontPage 98 and 2000.
http://www.accessfp.net/frontlookca.htm/
FrontLook Series 3 is NOT AN UPGRADE to Series 1 or 2, but a brand new product.
Out of space for text and photos??? Need a new way to present them???
FrontLook Series 3 provides a scroller and slideshow applet to make your text and picture presentation more compact and interesting. FrontLook Series 3 is the latest product in the FrontLook Series and includes the following:
- Multi-column Scroller applet with support for multiple character styles, colors and hyperlinks
- Slideshow/Presentation applet with over 20 transition effects
- A Button Bar Helper to enable interactive control over the applets
- 30 brand new image-intensive themes for business and personal use.
- 90 new sound effects and over 300 pieces of clip art.
- Same easy-to-use applet interface as always.
All This for ONLY $39.95!! But wait...
If you are a FrontLook Series 1 or 2 customer, you can
purchase FrontLook Series 3 for ONLY $29.95 (a $10 savings)!!!
A snip at that price.
DOWNLOAD the FREE SAMPLER today!
http://www.accessfp.net/frontlookca.htm/
**Item 2**
Some news from Cnet if you're an affiliate take note. If you
regularly access a site for the Cnet news and it's not available, let them know the following:
"As many of you are aware, the state of California is experiencing a shortage in available power. As a precautionary measure, we are switching the servers that host News.com content. This will help insure the stability of the News.com headline feeds you presently display on your site. Due to this change in servers, we are asking you to modify the dynamic News.com html you are presently hosting. Failure to update the existing News.com html will result in a lack of displayed content. This does not affect the News.com logos; only the dynamic News.com headline feeds."
Cnet also have some great FrontPage resources see what all the fuss is about
http://www.accessfp.net/cnetca.htm
**Item 2**
http://www.securedform.com/
SecuredForm offers secure order forms for your e-Commerce website.
Our service provides a simple solution for e-Commerce web sites that offer only a limited number of products, and do not require a shopping cart system
We support Microsoft FrontPage 2000 designed forms
Our forms are secured by a Thawte Digital Certificate
You can see a demo of a secure FrontPage form below:
https://www.securedform.com/secure/demo.html
Basics of HTML+TIME Animation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/animation.asp
This article introduces you to the basics of HTML+TIME animation, so that you can create an exciting Web experience for your users. (10 printed pages)
Adding animation to Web pages was one of the great promises of Web-based programming languages like Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft® JScript®. However, unless you were already familiar with programming languages like Visual Basic, C++, or Java, you probably had a steep learning curve ahead of you.
Well, here's some good news-adding animation to a Web page has never been easier. Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 implements the W3C SMIL 2.0 Working Draft animation module through the time2 behaviour of HTML+TIME. This article introduces you to the basics of HTML+TIME animation so that you can create an exciting Web experience for your users.
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3 ASK ME A QUESTION
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If you need some information about a particular subject and don't know where to find the resources I may be able to help. Ask me a question and I will do my best to find the information for you. My aim is to complete the request within a week though there are no guarantees. To ask your question send an email addressed to:
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QUESTION:
Tina, when you are selecting the files to publish and not
Publish, how do you select more than one at a time. I have done this before but I can't seem to get it to select them one at a time would take me forever. Thank you very much.
Brian Sullivan
ANSWER:
Well I was about to say I don't know but I tried this and it
Worked.
Go to the publish status section of reports view...
View | Reports | Publish status
Hold down shift, click on the first file you want to change
status on, then click on the last file you want to change
status on. (This selects them all.)
Right click on the selection.
Click 'Properties'.
Select the 'Workgroup tab'
Tick 'exclude this file while publishing to the web'
Click apply then ok. Voila all your Publish status has been changed.
NOTE: If you want to select odd files for publishing hold down the control key and individual files will be selected at the same time.
Tina Clarke
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4 Guest Article - Tips galore
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Tip 1 Jumping the line
When you use code validator's they give you the line number to fix the code, in previous versions you had to cut and paste to notepad with wrap turned off and count down to the correct line number. Now in FrontPage 2k you can go to the line number on the html tab in page view.
Right-click anywhere in the HTML tab,
and then click Go To on the shortcut menu.
Type the number of the line you want to go to in the' Enter Line Number' box.
Click OK.
Tip 2 Set properties on the HTML tab in Page view
When you're editing a page on the HTML tab in Page view, you can use Microsoft FrontPage to help you set the properties of an HTML tag, instead of memorising the valid attributes and values and typing them yourself.
For example, if you want to add a border to an image, you can type border="1" in the img tag - but that assumes you know the valid attributes and values for image tags. Instead, you can use the Picture Properties dialog box to set the border, and FrontPage automatically writes the border settings, in the proper syntax and using valid values, back into the img tag.
Unlike previous versions of FrontPage, you don't need to exit the HTML tab to use dialog boxes to set properties for a tag.
On the HTML tab in Page view, position the insertion point inside the tag name (not inside an attribute or a value) of the tag you want to set properties for, right-click to display the shortcut menu, and then click Tag Properties.
FrontPage displays the appropriate properties dialog box for that HTML tag. For example, if you click in a form field check box tag, FrontPage displays the 'Check Box Properties' dialog box.
Set the properties you want. The dialog box lets you choose from among the valid attributes and values for that tag.
When you click OK to close the properties dialog box, FrontPage immediately rewrites the HTML for that tag.
Tip 3 Save changes in Navigation view
When you make changes to your web's navigation structure in Navigation view - for example, adding or deleting a page from the structure, or creating a new page - those changes are saved automatically when you switch to another view, such as Page view. However, you can save changes at any time to prevent losing work.
To save changes without switching views, right-click on the view background, and then click Apply Changes on the shortcut menu.
Tip 4 To copy or paste? (This is a new feature in FP2k)
To Copy formatting from selected characters or a paragraph and apply it to the text you select.
1 Select the formatting you want to copy
2 Click 'Format painter' icon the cursor turns into a paintbrush.
3 Brush it across the text you wish to change.
Note: To copy the selected formatting to several locations, double-click Format Painter. Click the button again when you're finished.
or
You can use the 'Copy Format' and 'Paste Format' icons.
To use Keyboard shortcuts:
1 Select the text you want to copy.
2 Press Ctrl + Shift + C
3 Select the text you want to change
4 Press Ctrl + Shift + V
Tina Clarke
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5 Sponsors
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PixelMill
http://www.accessfp.net/pixelmillca.htm
PixelMill offers a full range of high quality, professionally designed Microsoft FrontPage 98/2000 themes. By using real graphical artists, and not computer techies, we are able to give our clients real themes to use on real websites.
J-Bots 2000
http://www.accessfp.net/jbotsca.htm
J-Bots Plus 2000 contains 50 components --all the components in J-Bots 2000, plus three component groups called: J-Bots Form ComponentsTM J-Bots Cookie ComponentsTM and J-Bots Image ComponentsTM
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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:
Featuredbytes@accessfp.net
You must include the name, url and a description about the site and why you think it's a good resource to have. Along with your recommendation should be YOUR name and site url.
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-------
I want to tell you about a new FrontPage site called:
DevPak
http://www.accessfp.net/devpakca.htm/
DevPack sell FrontPage themes, NOF styles and html templates. However there is much more to them than that. Read on.
The Free Theme/Style of the Month Club
The Club is one of the newest additions to Devpack. At the end of each month they review all the new themes/styles and select one theme and style for that month to be given to all club members for free.
Both template formats are available for download. The members will then have 30 days to download the free theme/style before it is removed and replaced with the next months theme/style.
As soon as they reach a substantial amount of club members, they will then allow the members to vote for the theme/style of the month. They may even give away bonus themes/styles every now and then!
This club should prove to be very interesting and fun for all!
Please make sure that you use a real email address when joining the club. If not, you will not receive notification of the ID, password and link to each months theme/style. Links, passwords and ID's will also change each month for security purposes. Check out the site for club rules.
What else is available at DevPak?
Flash Blaster
Choose from templates to customize via your Browser and create great Flash content without prior Flash knowledge.
Devcamp Free Membership
Created for developers by developers to review "how to's", use our time saving tools, receive free FrontPage themes and NetObjects Fusion styles, learn techniques on how to create a successful eBusiness and read specialised articles that will help extend your existing skills, and the list goes on. Devcamp is designed to aid you in the creation of great sites with easy to use resources. Updated Daily!
To truly know what they have to offer you have to see it for yourself. Oh! And best of all it's FREE!
Join the Devpack life Membership today for only $139.95 and receive all Devpack FrontPage themes and NOF Styles plus updates for life. See what your missing:
http://www.accessfp.net/devpakca.htm/
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7 WEEKLY LINKS AND RESOURCES
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NOTE: New links appear here in AccessFP Bytes FIRST. Only after a week will they appear on the site. Get ahead of the game Today!
K.A.T.E
http://www.murraystate.edu/kate/front_page/default.htm
This site has several tutorials on FrontPage.
Lighthousewebs Developer's Corner
http://www.lighthousewebs.net/developer/default.asp
Tips and tutorials on FronPage, PWS and Extenstions.
Wurd
http://www.wurd.com/eng/pwp/fp2000.htm
This page was designed for AT&T WorldNet® personal web page members
Arriba
http://www.gotowebhosting.com/frontpage-publishing-help.htm
Tips, How-to's and tutorials on FrontPage.
School Webmaster
http://www.fayette.k12.ky.us/central/edtech/webmaster/default.asp
Tutorials on FrontPage eg 'Saving form results to a spreadsheet'
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Help
http://support.microsoft.com/support/Office/InProdHlp/contents/FrontPage/tocfptochhc.asp
The online version of what's in your FrontPage 2000 Help files.
Database resource centre
http://support.microsoft.com/support/FrontPage/fp2000/RC/Datarc.asp
One of the best places to start learning FrontPage database programming is with the ASP Web Wizard 2000 for Databases. To obtain this wizard, please see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q206019 - FP2000: ASP Web Wizard 2000 for Databases Available for Download.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q206/0/19.asp
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For our 'Spotlight on FrontPage', this week AccessFP Focuses on : Ed Note: Since the list of New FrontPage Resources above was so long we will skip this section this week.
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