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Firstly the subject line read Issue 22 and it should have read 27.
Secondly the file name for the latest Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin Archives
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Plus last week I did not put an issue out due to too much to do at home sorry
about that.
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AccessFP Bytes - The Bit in the middle!
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Designing
and crafting with FrontPage
Members: 407 Issue 28, Vol 2: 25th June, 2001
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Editor: Tina Clarke,
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1. Welcome from Tina
2 Generally Speaking
3. Wassup @ FrontPage Communities
4. Guest Article or Tip - "Down With Boring Forms"
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
with it? No well-dressed Ezine would be seen without them
not to mention the AnyFrontPage Forums.
Site - http://www.accessfp.net/
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Forums - http://anyfrontpage.com/
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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 "Down With Boring Forms" by Karey Cummins.
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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Electrical power problems can happen at any time and you should protect your PC, Fred Langa has something to say about this in his most recent issue.
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-06-18.htm
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ThemePak
27 New Themes & SiteStyles we're released on 06/19/01!
http://accessfp.net/themesetsca.htm
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Jimco Add-ins News - http://www.jimcoaddins.com
I have some good news! Jimco add-ins and utilities are now
all FrontPage 2002 compatible! I am happy to report that my initial
testing was done on a beta copy of FrontPage 2002. Apparently, there was
some backwards compatibility added in after I performed that testing, but
I never bothered to test again until today.
Please feel free to continue to use all of my add-ins and utilities
regardless of whether you use FrontPage 2000 or 2002. If you do use my
FrontPage 2000 add-ins as well as my FrontPage 2002 add-ins, you will have
two Jimco menus in FrontPage for the time being. That will be fixed
shortly.
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From Aug. 20, 2001, ListBot are discontinuing the FREE bCentral ListBot service.
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Each year, PC World Magazine reviews hardware, software and Internet products and declares winners in 58 categories. This year Zone Labs iced the competition to win:
BEST SECURITY SOFTWARE: ZoneAlarm Pro!
Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm also won the PC World "World Class Award: Best of 2001"
for the Best Freeware!
http://zonealarm.com/
I use the freeware version myself saved me from countless attacks well done Zonealarm.
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Talking of security ad-ware has been updated to version 5.5 as of June 24th.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Ad-aware is a free multi spy ware removal utility, that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spy ware components and lets you remove them safely.
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Ad-search v1.0 released 14.11
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
(available from the home page)
How often did you download a so-called "freeware" application, just to find out
it is really spy ware? Now there is an easy solution: Just enter the name into Ad-search, and it will show you if, and what spy ware-system it uses.
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TagCheck v1.4d has now been released and is available, free as usual, from
http://www.tafweb.com
and http://www.tafwebsoftware.co.uk
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DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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Modify the title of a file
The title of a file - not its file name - appears in page banners and navigation bars that Microsoft FrontPage creates, as well as in the title bar of most Web browsers. You can modify the title of a file without modifying its file name.
In any view except Tasks view, right-click the file, click 'Properties' on the popup menu, and then click the General tab.
In the Title box, type the title of the file that you want to appear in page banners and navigation bars.
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Q I want to save a page on my web but don't want it on my site how can I do this?
A First save the page to a spare web kept for the purpose.
File | Save AS | navigate to the web Press Save.
Then open the page from the web you no longer want it showing on your site from and right click on the page. Choose Page Properties and then the workgroup tab. Tick the 'Exclude this file when publishing the rest of the web' box and press OK.
Close the page and close the web.
Open the site live
File | Open | on the pop up box click 'Web Folders' on the left hand menu
Insert the url of the site you wish to open
e.g.: http://www.accessfp.net/
NOTE: You must manually insert the url as you cannot copy and paste into this box.
(Include the slash at the end)
Click ok
A box will appear asking for your username and password insert these press ok
In FrontPage, click on the navigation view so you know when the site will come in.
Click on Folders View and select the page you wish to delete. Right click and choose 'Delete' select delete from web and press ok.
Recalculate the hyperlinks after doing this. Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks then close the web.
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3 Wassup @ FrontPage Communities
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Wassup on the WWW FrontPage Communities?
The question was asked:
"Is there any horizontal top menu WITHOUT browser compatibility problems,
or without compatibility problems from browsers 3.0 (included)?"
Jonathan Lerner had the solution.
Using a JavaScript-driven menu in Front Page
http://www.lehrercommunications.com/menu/bartest.htm
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Miki from Mi-Designs http://www.mi-designs.com/
has kindly uploaded samples of generic contracts for proposals
and contracts for those of you who belong to the AccessFP List.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPList/files/
More next week from the FrontPage Communities on the World Wide Web
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4 Guest Article - Down With Boring Forms
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We all have our favourite way of doing things.
This is good and makes our jobs easier. But
in another way, it prevents us from reaching
out and trying new things because the
familiar tricks we use are always safe and
comfortable. Well, it's time to branch out
and learn a little bit more about how easy
it is to use and create inline style sheets
in FrontPage.
For this first exercise, we're going to
imagine bright exciting forms. That's right,
no more white areas or dull grey "submit"
buttons. It's time to liven up those pages
with some very simple inline styles that will
add a dash of flair to those tired forms
pages.
Let's make this easy and start with the
Submit and Reset buttons that are standard
with all of the FrontPage forms. For this
example, we will jazz up the standard gray
button by making it bright red with bold
white text. Ready?
1. In FrontPage, create your form by clicking
on Insert | Form | Form. This will create a
blank form with only the Submit and Reset
Buttons.
2. Right-click on the "Submit" button and
select "Form Field Properties" from the menu.
3. In the window that appears, select the
"Style" button.
4. In the Modify Style window that appears,
click on the Format button.
5. Select Font from the list of choices.
6. In this case, select either Arial or
Verdana. Set the font style to Bold and the
size to 12px. (That's right, select pixels
and not points.) Now set the color to white.
Click OK.
7. Now that we are back in the Modify Style
window, click on the "Format" again.
8. This time select Format | Border.
9. Under the "borders" tab, select box,
solid, with black as the color. Set the
border width to "1". You can also select
a cell padding if you desire.
10. Next click on the "shading" tab. Set
the background color to red. (Note that
you can also use a background image by
selecting the "browse" button.)
11. Click OK on all windows until you are
back to your page.
12. Repeat with the "Reset" button.
Presto.... you have just made two very
nifty red buttons rather than the same old
gray buttons that usually appear.
Since we need something for our users to
actually submit, now we need to add two
fields to our form. One for the person's
name, and one for the email address.
1. Inside of your form field, go to
Insert | Form | Text Field.
2. Right click on the newly made field.
Select "Form Field Properties" ...again.
3. In the Text Box Properties window that
appears, type in the name of the field. In
this case, just type, "name".
4. Make the field 40 characters in length
and designate it as "1" in the tab field.
5. Now the fun begins when you click on the
"style" button. In the Modify Style window,
click on the "Format" button. (Getting the
idea?)
6. Select borders from the list.
7. Again, give your form field area a black,
1-pixel border.
8. Now click on the shading tab. You can
select any color or select from your own custom
colors, maybe one that goes along with that
great new theme you're using.
It only takes a minute to turn that drab form
into something that is very interesting. And
most of your viewers won't have seen these
dazzling effects before.
There's also good news and bad news. The bad
news is that Netscape versions earlier than
6.0 will ignore all of your great style sheet
coding. The good news is that the effects will
degrade gracefully to the normal form defaults.
More good news is that since these types of
style sheet commands are "in-line" and not
"external", they will work well even if you
have a theme applied to the page.
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About the Author:
Karey Cummins is owner and webmaster of Round
the Bend Wizards, designing FrontPage themes
and templates. Be sure to visit at
http://www.rtbwizards.com
Your comments are welcome and can be directed
to: mailto:kareycummins@msn.com
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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------- http://www.mi-designs.com/free.htm
Where can you get FREE graphics? Such as:
Backgrounds, Borders, Fonts, Mix n' Match, Presets,
Sets, Themes, Tubes.
AT Mi-Designs that's where, don't forget to read the fine print
before downloading your choice.
Miki also has such services as custom Theme design and website design and hosting.
Check out http://www.mi-designs.com/
today.
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7 WEEKLY LINKS AND RESOURCES
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****General Links****
Free site analysis tools at:
http://www.webtrendslive.com/default.htm
http://get.hitbox.com/
http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/?reg
http://sm6.sitemeter.com/default.asp
http://www.websitetrafficreport.com/
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Design Gallery Live
http://dgl.microsoft.com/
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A legal resource for recovering from damages caused by email vandalism.
http://www.suespammers.org/
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Microsoft Office Template Gallery.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/templategallery/
Instead of starting from a blank document, get your work done faster by starting from a professionally authored template.
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Prepare to Build XML Web Services in Five Easy Steps
http://www.microsoft.com/net/fivesteps.asp
Now is the time to get ready for the XML Web services revolution
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Office 2000 Sounds for Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/sounds.aspx
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How to Set Up Forms for E-mail on Internet Information Server
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/4/89.ASP
****FrontPage Links****
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!
Collecting Sales Leads Online with FrontPage 2000
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/fpSalesLeads.aspx
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Creating an Online Storefront with FrontPage 2000 -
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/fpOnlineStoreFront.aspx
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Woody's Lounge - FrontPage Forum
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=front
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For our 'Spotlight on FrontPage', this week AccessFP Focuses on
FrontPage 2002 Add-ons.
WebsUnlimted Products for FrontPage 2002
http://www.accessfp.net/jbotsca.htm
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HiSoftware
http://accessfp.net/taggen.htm
(Click on the Products link for a full listing)
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