Keyboard Shortcuts |
Save time by
using these keyboard shortcuts for FrontPage 2000.
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Use the
Ctrl-Page Up and Ctrl-Page Down keys to cycle back and forth through all
of the available page views (Normal, HTML, and Preview).
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If you need
to move back and forth between pages, use the Ctrl-Tab and
Ctrl-Shift-Tab keys.
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You can
display the HTML tags in the Normal view by hitting Ctrl-/.
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If you hold
down the Alt key while clicking inside of a table, you can select
individual cells. Then you can copy/cut and paste those cells elsewhere.
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Add
sound with on/off control |
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In FrontPage
98, you can add sound that will have the option for your guests to turn it
on or off. Here's how:
In the FP
editor go to INSERT, Front Page Component and select INSERT HTML.
Paste this code in the INSERT HTML window where you would like the sound
controls displayed on your page:
<embed src="whatever.mid" loop="true" autostart="true" height="25"
width="100" controls="smallconsole">
<noembed>
<bgsound src="whatever.mid" loop="true" autostart="true" height="25"
width="100" controls="smallconsole">
</noembed>
This does not mean that all browsers will display the controls the same,
it depends completely on the plug-in your viewer uses as to how the
controls will look, but this width and height seem to be a fair compromise
between the 2 most used plug-ins in NN and MSIE.
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Capturing color values |
FrontPage
2000 makes it easy to capture colors that are displayed elsewhere on your
monitor. When you choose More Colors from the program's various Color
dropdown menus, the More Colors dialog box
appears. Here, you can click on the Select button to access the eyedropper
tool. Use the eyedropper to click on any onscreen color, and FrontPage
brings that color into the dialog box.
In FrontPage 98, however, there is no built-in feature for capturing
colors. However, you can use the handy (and free) Pixie program to achieve
the same result. This program, which you can download from
http://natty.port5.com/pixie.html, displays the color values of any pixel
you put the mouse pointer on.
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Features that require
extensions |
Features that
require FrontPage 98 server extensions:
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Confirmation Field
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Discussion
Form Handler
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FrontPage
created server-side Image Maps
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Hit Counter
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Registration Form Handler
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Save
Results Form Handler
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Search Form
Features that
require FrontPage 2000 server extensions:
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Database
Results Wizard
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Send To
Database Form Handler
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Nested Sub
webs
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Lightweight
Source Control (Document Check-in/Check-out without VSS)
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Categories
Component
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Style Sheet
links to multiple files or ASP files
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Create an Icon for bookmarks |
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[This tip
will only work in IE5 and above]
To create an
Icon that will appear when some-one bookmarks your site, you will need to
create an Icon that is 16 pixels square. You can take an existing image
and make it in to a Favicon image by using this free tool:
FavIcon Generator.
Once you have create your Icon, name it favicon.ico and insert it into the
root directory of your web site. This is where your Index.html resides.
Now, once some-one chooses to bookmark your site,
Internet Explorer will look for the favicon.ico in your root directory
and attach that Icon to the favorites.
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Update
several pages at the same time |
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[FP98] Put
all the buttons in their own separate page, then in each of the pages, go
to INSERT, FRONTPAGE COMPONENT, and choose INCLUDE PAGE, then specify the
button page. Once all the pages are set up with the "include page", each
time you change the button page it will change in each of the other pages.
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Create a Frames Page |
FrontPage
makes it easy to create frames pages using templates in which the
navigation between frames is already set up for you.
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In the
Contents Frames Page template, for example, clicking a hyperlink in
the Contents frame on the left displays a page in the Main frame (called
the target frame) on the right.
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Select File, New, Page, and click
the Frames Pages tab. Let's say we want to create a table of contents.
Select the Contents template.
Note:
When you click a template,
FrontPage displays a thumbnail showing that template's frames layout in
the Preview area. It also displays a summary and suggested use of the
template in the Description.
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Click OK to
select the Contents template. You'll get a layout of your frames page,
though there's nothing in it yet.
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Set the initial frames page |
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After you
create a frames page, you must set the initial page to display in each
frame when the page is viewed in a browser, otherwise, it will display
empty frames. If you've just used the Contents template to create your
frames page, you'll see that each frame contains a button that says Set
Initial Page. Click the button, and navigate to the page you want
displayed in that frame. Then, just click OK.
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Add a navigation bar |
Navigation is
always a good idea when exploring Web pages. Here's how it's created:
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In Page
View, position your cursor where you want to put the bar.
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Click
Insert, Navigation Bar.
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Select the
type of hyperlinks to add to the navigation bar under Hyperlinks To Add
To Page.
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To add
links to pages on the same level as the current page, choose Same Level.
Select the Home Page check box under Additional Pages to add a link to
your home page, too.
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Under
Orientation And Appearance, choose Horizontal if you want your
navigation bar to run across the top of the page, or Vertical if you
want to it run down the side.
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Choose Text
(unless you're using a theme for your page, then you can select
buttons).
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Click OK to
create your navigation bar. If you're using a theme for your web, button
navigation bars will use fonts, colors, and other style elements from
the theme.
Note:
If you add a navigation bar to a page that uses a shared border, the
change will affect all pages using that border.
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Exclude
a page from Navigation Bars |
When you choose which hyperlinks to
add you can specify individual pages.You can go back and exclude specific
pages from the navigation bar, but it does take a few extra steps. To
exclude a page from a navigation bar (when you've selected the other pages
on the same level), switch to Navigation View. Right-click the page you
want to keep out of the navigation bar, and clear the Included In
Navigation Bars check box on the shortcut menu.
Note:
If you change a navigation bar in a
shared border, the change will affect all pages using that border.
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Orientation of a Navigation Bar |
Once you've placed a navigation bar
on a web page, you're not stuck with it the way it is. If you decide you'd
rather have it displayed vertically, running down the side of the page,
rather than horizontally, it's easy to change it. In Page View,
double-click the navigation bar. Select Vertical under Orientation And
Appearance. Click OK.
Note:
If you change a navigation bar in a shared border, the change will affect
all pages using that border.
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Create a Bookmark |
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If someone
looking at your Web page wants to jump to a particular point in a page,
you should make it easy for them to do so. By creating a bookmark, you can
allow your visitors to jump to the relevant part of the page. Just like
this page, I give you a certain topic to choose from and then I have made
an anchor link (bookmark) so that you can click to that specific topics
content. Here's how it's created:
In Page View,
position the insertion point where you want to create a bookmark, or
select the relevant text. Click Insert, Bookmark. Type the name of the
bookmark in the Bookmark Name box. Click OK.
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Hyperlink to a bookmark |
Insert a
hyperlink at the top of the page, so users can jump directly to that
section. Here's how:
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In Page
View, click your mouse where you want the hyperlink to show up (probably
up near the top).
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Type the
text you want to use for the hyperlink, then select the text by
highlighting it
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Click the
Hyperlink button (it is the globe with a chain link)
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In the
Bookmark box, click the bookmark you want to use as the destination. Now
when visitors click that hyperlink, they'll jump directly to the
information you have bookmarked.
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Set
hyperlink colors |
You can
select three different colors: one for a link that hasn't been selected,
one for a link that is currently selected, and one for a link that has
already been selected. Here's how:
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In Page
View, right-click the page and click Page Properties on the shortcut
menu.
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Click the
Background tab. Select the colors you want to use in the Hyperlink,
Visited Hyperlink, and Active Hyperlink boxes.
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Click OK.
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Add
font effects to a hyperlink |
When you've
surfed around the Web and back a few times, most sites start to look
alike. Make yours stand out by jazzing up your hyperlinks. It's easy to
enhance a link so that when visitors position their mouse pointer over the
text, it changes font.
Let's make our hyperlinks turn bold and red. In Page View, right-click the
page and click Page Properties on the shortcut menu. Click the Background
tab. Under Formatting, select the Enable Hyperlink Rollover
Effects check box. Click Rollover Style and choose the options you
want--in this case, red and bold. Click OK.
Note: You cannot add these effects if the page uses a theme.
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Find text in a Web |
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Once you've
got an entire web designed, it can get pretty complex. It's difficult to
remember on which page a particular phrase or block of text appears. Or,
if you've discovered that you misspelled a word in the entire web, luckily
FrontPage makes it easy to search for text throughout an entire web.
Switch to Folders View. Click Edit, Find. If you want to search the entire
web, click All Pages, or to search only particular pages, click Selected
Pages. Type the text you want to search for in the Find What box. Click
Find. FrontPage will search and display the pages in which the text
appears. To open a page to fix the error, double-click that page in the
list.
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Find
and replace text |
If you're
searching so that you can correct a spelling error or replace text,
there's no need to search and then manually fix your mistake. Simply use
the Find and Replace feature, and correct your error automatically!
Switch to Folders View. Click Edit, Replace. If you want to search the
entire web, click All Pages, or to search only particular pages, click
Selected Pages. Type the text you want to search for in the Find What box.
Type the replacement text in the Replace With box. Click Find. FrontPage
will search and display the pages in which the text appears. Double-click
the first page in the list. You'll see the text highlighted. Click Replace
All to fix all the misspelled names in one fell swoop.
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Black
and White Pictures |
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FrontPage
makes it easy to convert all of your photo's to black and white. Here's
how:
In Page View,
click the picture. Select View, Toolbars, Pictures to display the Pictures
toolbar. Click Black And White on the toolbar.
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Set a background color |
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In Page View,
right-click the page and click Page Properties on the shortcut menu.
Select the Background tab. Select a color in the Background box, and click
OK.
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Hide it away
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You're
looking at your Web site using the Navigation or Hyperlinks view, but your
screen is also cluttered by that Folders List (not to be confused with the
Folders view). So you look in the corner of the Folders List for that
handy little ""X"" that usually lets you close a given screen or program.
No such luck. But getting rid of the Folders List is really quite simple.
Check your toolbar at the top of the screen. There's an icon--about the
fifth from the left--called Folders List. (You can tell that you have the
right one by holding your cursor over the icon. A context-sensitive pop-up
box that says Folders List should appear.) Click this icon once, and the
Folders List will disappear. Want to get it back? Simply click the Folders
List icon again.
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The Web import business
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Let's say
that you were tinkering with Web design long before you invested in
FrontPage. And say you came up with a pretty nice Web page that you'd like
to incorporate into the Web site that you're now building with FrontPage.
Shouldn't be a problem. Just follow these simple steps:
First, you
need to create a place to put the Web page you've built. Let's say that
you want it to be the new
home page of the Web site you're developing with FrontPage. Go to the
Navigation view and locate the icon called Home Page. (It's the one with
the little
house on it. Cute, huh?) Double-click the Home Page icon. You'll
notice that two different things change on your screen. First, you're no
longer in Navigation view; you've switched to the Page view. Second,
you'll see some little yellow icons on your screen--one says ""body"" and
the other says ""/body"". These are HTML tags; your Web page will go
between these tags. Next, select Insert, File. Browse through your hard
drive until you find the Web page that you had created previously, the one
that
you want to insert in your new FrontPage Web site. Remember that the page
you created needs to have a .htm or an .html extension in order to work on
the Web.
Once you've found the page, click Open. The page will automatically appear
on the screen in front of you. You'll notice that you'll see a lot more of
those yellow boxes with tags. Don't worry--they won't appear on your final
page. Finally, save your page by selecting File, Save. Voila!
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Juggling Pages |
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You're just
editing your home page when you suddenly think of something you need to
add to another page of your site. So you open that second page and make
the necessary changes. Ah! What happened to the home page? To jump back to
it quickly and easily, go to the Window menu. There you'll see a list of
all the pages that are open. Select the home page, and you'll be back to
work in no time.
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Map out your Web
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When you were
in school, your teacher always told you to write an outline before you
started writing a paper. You may not have listened then, but you really
should take her advice now: It's wise to map out your Web site before you
start building it. One way to do that is-essentially--to create an outline
of the site using the Navigation view. Here's how.
First, you need an idea of what you want your Web site to be about.
(Sounds simple, I know, but bear with me here.) Let's say, for example,
that your Web site is all about your family. So the home page--that's the
main page and the first one that your visitors will probably see--leads to
all the other pages. You've decided that you
want one of these pages to be about vacations, one about the kids, and one
about the pets. Keep all that in mind as you go through these steps.
Now, go to the Navigation view and select File, New, Page. A new page,
called JIMCO SERVICES - JIMCO.NET, will appear under the Home Page icon. That means that
you'll want your visitors to link to this page directly from the home
page. Let's say that that's your page about vacations. Now you'll need to
add two more pages--one for the kids and one for the pets.
There may be pages that should be under these new pages. Let's say that
each of your three kids wants his or her own page. So the kids' page
should have three pages under it. Go to one of the new pages--it doesn't
matter which since you haven't named them yet--and right-click on it. From
the pop-up menu that appears, choose New Page. A new page will now appear
one level down. Add two more so you have a total of three.
To avoid confusion, you'll want to go back and name each of these pages.
Click on the name--that's JIMCO SERVICES - JIMCO.NET, New Page 2, etc.--of each page.
Highlight the name and then type in your own. When you're ready to start
working on your site, you can just double-click on the pages you've
created in this outline and get right to work! Your teacher would be
proud. (Ah, shucks.)
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Auto
Expanding Menu |
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You click on
a pull-down menu, looking for that function that you know should be there,
but you just can't find it. But if you look at the bottom of the menu,
you'll see a double arrow pointing down. Hold your cursor over that double
arrow for just a second and the menu will automatically expand. If you
tried to get your menu to automatically expand but it just didn't work.
Instead, you had to click on the double arrow to manually expand the menu.
If you want the menu to expand automatically, follow these simple steps.
First, select
View, Toolbars, Customize. In the Customize dialog box, click the Options
tab. Under Personalized Menus And Toolbars, find the option Show Full
Menus After Short Delay. If your menus didn't
automatically expand, this option won't be selected. Select it. (Of
course, if for some reason you don't want this option to be turned on and
it is, you can just deselect it.) Click the Close button to implement your
change.
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FP Server Extensions
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The following
features require the FrontPage Server Extensions:
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Database
Results Wizard
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Send To
Database Form Handler
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Nested sub
webs
-
Lightweight
Source Control (document check-in/check-out without VSS)
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Categories
Component
-
StyleSheet
links to multiple files or ASP files
In addition,
the following components require at least an earlier version of the
FrontPage Server Extensions:
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Confirmation Field
-
Discussion
Form Handler
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FrontPage-created server-side image maps
-
Hit Counter
-
Registration Form Handler
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Save
Results Form Handler
-
Search Form
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Install
a Hit Counter |
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1. Go to the
FrontPage program root directory (usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft
FrontPage). Under that, create a directory named bots. Then under the bots
directory create a directory named fpcount. So you should have directories
set up like the following:
C:\Program
Files\Microsoft FrontPage\bots\fpcount
2. In the
fpcount directory you just created copy the following files from the
FrontPage CD.
fpcount.inf
fpcntclt.btl
which can be
found in the cdrom:\FrontPg\fpsdk20\WebBot\fpcount\misc\ directory, and
the files:
fpcntsrv.dll
fpcntclt.dll
which can be
found in the cdrom:\FrontPg\fpsdk20\WebBot\fpcount\winbin\ directory.
3. Switch to
Folder View.
4. Then copy
the fpcount.exe file (found in the
cdrom:\FrontPg\fpsdk20\WebBot\fpcount\winbin\ directory) into the web's
cgi-bin and make sure the cgi-bin is executable (right click on the folder
in the FrontPage explorer and go to properties).
5. Then
select tools--Recalculate Hyperlinks.
You now
should be able to go into the FrontPage editor and select insert--webbot
component--hit counter.
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Installing Server Extensions |
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The procedure
for installing the FrontPage
Server Extensions varies somewhat, depending on the Web server, the
operating system, and the server extensions version. In general,
though, you should
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First
install the
Web server software.
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Test the
server by displaying a few default pages over the network.
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Install any
other extensions or add-ons.
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Test by
exercising the provided functions.
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Install the
FrontPage Server Extensions.
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Test by
opening the Root Web with FrontPage Explorer and creating a new
FrontPage Web.
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Start
adding content.
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Hyperlink Rollover Effect
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To give your
hyperlinks some flare. Try giving them a colorful rollover effect. When
your visitors mouse-over your hyperlink it will automatically change
colors. Here's how:
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Choose any
hyperlink and right-click.
-
Select Page
Properties from the pop-up menu that appears.
-
Next, click
the Background tab in the Page Properties dialog box.
-
Select the
Enable Hyperlink Rollover Effects option and then click
Rollover Style. You will now see the Font dialog box.
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Choose a
style that you want your normal hyperlinks to change to. When you've
finished, click OK twice to close the dialog boxes.
Note: You
will have to be in Preview mode to view this effect.
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Open Last Web Automatically |
If you find
that you usually work on the same web until it's completed, you can set
Microsoft FrontPage to automatically open the last web you worked on when
you start FrontPage.
-
On the
Tools menu, click
Options, and then click the
General tab. Select the
Open last web automatically when FrontPage
starts check box.
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Create a table of contents |
You can
create an automatically generated table of contents based on the
navigation structure of your web, and pages with hyperlinks that are not
included in the navigation structure. A site visitor browsing your web can
click any entry in the table to jump to that page or file.
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In Page
view, position the insertion point where you want to create a table of
contents.
Tip:
You
can create the table of contents on a page that contains other content,
or on a page by itself. If you want to create a table of contents for a
large web, you should probably create a special table of contents page
containing only the table.
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On the
Insert menu, point to
Component, and then click
Table of Contents.
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In the
Page URL for starting point of table
box, type the relative URL of the page to use as the starting point for
the table of contents, or click Browse
to locate the page.
Tip:
The
starting point determines which pages are leftmost in the table of
contents. Pages pointed to by hyperlinks on the starting page will be
indented one level in the table of contents.
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In the
Heading font size box, select the
paragraph style for the heading (the top-level entry, or starting page)
of the table of contents. To exclude the starting page from the table of
contents, click None.
Tip:
If
you're creating a table of contents on the same page as the starting
point for the table, the heading of the table will be a hyperlink to the
same page. For example, if you're creating a table of contents on the
page Index.htm, and the starting point of that table is Index.htm (the
same page), the heading of the table will be a hyperlink to Index.htm.
If you want to exclude such a circular hyperlink as the heading of a
table of contents, click None in the
Heading font size box.
Notes:
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If your web
includes pages pointed to by multiple hyperlinks and you want the table
of contents to list each page only once, select the
Show each page only once check box.
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To include
pages not pointed to by any hyperlinks in your web, select the
Show pages with no incoming hyperlinks
check box.
-
To
automatically recalculate the table of contents whenever any page in
your web is edited, select the Recomputed table
of contents when any other page is edited check box.
Recalculating a table of contents for a large web can be a
time-consuming process. If you select this check box, you may find that
it takes longer to save pages. If you don't select this check box, you
can manually regenerate the table of contents by opening and saving the
page containing the table of contents.
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Server
Error: Service.cnf |
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This error
notes that you are running out of space. You may have several megabytes
of space showing, but the FrontPage server extensions carry a lot of
baggage. The error that you will receive looks like this:
Server Error.
Cannot close file "/web/_vti_pvt/service.cnf."
If you see this error, you must either delete some files from the server,
or contact your Web space provider to obtain more space.
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Adding
text to a graphic |
A picture of
a breathtaking sunset may be worth a thousand words. But adding just a
brief description (like, "view from my vacation villa") on top of an image
can make it worth, well, a thousand and five words.
Fortunately, adding text atop a FrontPage graphic is easy. Start by
clicking the graphic image to select it. Then, click the Text button on
the Pictures toolbar (the button that looks like the letter A) to
insert a box with a blinking cursor on the image. Type your message and
click outside the text box.
You can use any of FrontPage's text-formatting tools and commands to
format text you place on an image. And you can resize the text box by
clicking and dragging its handles. Also, you can move the text box
anywhere on the image by clicking it and dragging.
If you look at the HTML code associated with the text, you'll see that
FrontPage creates it as an image map. Not surprisingly, you can hyperlink
this text box to one URL and the image to a totally different URL.
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Thumbnail Photos
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Adding large
photos to your page can cost your guests long load times. Instead, make a
thumbnail of the photo and add the larger photo to a linked page. This
way, you give your guest the choice of viewing the larger photo at a click
and the benefit of shorter load times when accessing your page. Using
FrontPage, it couldn't be easier to make thumbnails of your photos, here's
how:
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Insert the
large image on the page.
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From the
Picture toolbar, click Auto Thumbnail.
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If you
wish, add a beveled edge using the Bevel tool on the same toolbar.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
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Keys
for working with pages: |
Shortcut Keys |
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Create
a new page |
CTRL+N |
|
Open a
file |
CTRL+O |
|
Create
a hyperlink on a page |
CTRL+K |
|
Preview
a page in a Web browser |
CTRL+SHIFT+B |
|
Print a
page |
CTRL+P |
|
Display
non-printing characters |
CTRL+SHIFT+8 |
|
Display
HTML tags |
CTRL+/ |
|
Refresh
a page |
F5 |
|
Switch
between open pages |
CTRL+TAB or CTRL+SHIFT+TAB |
|
Close a
page |
CTRL+F4 |
|
Save a
page |
CTRL+S |
|
Publish |
ALT+P |
|
Format
Menu |
ALT+O |
|
Insert
Menu |
ALT+I |
|
Tools
Menu |
ALT+T |
|
Quit
Microsoft FrontPage |
ALT+F4 |
|
Align
Left |
ALT+L |
|
Align
Right |
ALT+R |
|
Edit
Menu |
ALT+E |
|
View
Menu |
ALT+V |
|
Find
text on pages or in HTML |
CTRL+F |
|
Replace
text on pages or in HTML |
CTRL+H |
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Check
spelling on page |
F7 |
|
Look up
word in the Thesaurus |
Shift+F7 |
|
Cancel
an action |
ESC |
|
Undo an
action |
CTRL+Z
or ALT+BACKSPACE |
|
Redo or
repeat an action |
CTRL+Y
or Shift+Alt+Backspace |
|
Keys
for formatting text and paragraphs |
Shortcut keys |
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Change
the font |
CTRL+SHIFT+F |
|
Change
the font size |
CTRL+SHIFT+P |
|
Apply
bold formatting |
CTRL+B |
|
Apply
an underline |
CTRL+U |
|
Apply
italic formatting |
CTRL+I |
|
Apply
superscript formatting |
CTRL+Plus Sign (+) |
|
Apply
subscript formatting |
CTRL+Minus Sign (-) |
|
Copy
formatting |
CTRL+SHIFT+C |
|
Paste
formatting |
CTRL+SHIFT+V |
|
Remove
manual formatting |
CTRL+SHIFT+Z or CTRL Spacebar |
|
Center
a paragraph |
CTRL+E |
|
Left
align a paragraph |
CTRL+L |
|
Right
align a paragraph |
CTRL+R |
|
Indent
a paragraph from the left |
CTRL+M |
|
Indent
a paragraph from the right |
CTRL+SHIFT+M |
|
Apply a
style |
CTRL+SHIFT+S |
|
Apply
the normal style |
CTRL+SHIFT+N |
|
Apply
the Heading 1 style |
CTRL+ALT+1 |
|
Apply
the Heading 2 style |
CTRL+ALT+2 |
|
Apply
the Heading 3 style |
CTRL+ALT+3 |
|
Apply
the Heading 4 style |
CTRL+ALT+4 |
|
Apply
the Heading 5 style |
CTRL+ALT+5 |
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Apply
the Heading 6 style |
CTRL+ALT+6 |
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Apply
the List style |
CTRL+SHIFT+L |
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Changing the bullets style
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When working
with a list, you can change the style of the bullets from round, square or
hollow. This is done limply by placing your cursor inside the list that
you would like to change. Choose Format> Bullets and Numbering>Click the
Plain Bullets tab. The Window that is highlighted is the style of bullet
that you are currently using. To change the style, simply click into the
window of choice, then click OK.
This can also
be accomplished by right-clicking in the list and selecting List
Properties.
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Refresh your page
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If you change
your page frequently and you need to ensure that your visitors are seeing
the most current change, then you can configure your pages to force the
browser to always load the page from the server and not the local cache.
Here's how:
Either of the
tags listed below will do the trick. Just simply add one of the lines
between each page's
<head> and
</head> tags:
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<META
HTTP-EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
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<META
HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Fri, 28 Jan 2000
07:19:34 GMT">
Tag #2 sets the page to expire at a certain time which will force the
browser to load the page from the server. By setting the page to a past
date, the page will always be expired.
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Rounded Cell Corners (FP 2003) |
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While in
design view, select Layout Tables and Cells from
the Tables menu in the toolbar. This opens the document window to the
right where you can draw and set the properties of tables and cells.
Select Insert Layout Cell. The default properties
are 'inline', height and width at 75px, and 'after selection'. It should
look like Figure 2 below.
Select
Cell Formatting and under Cell
Properties and Borders, set the width to '1', color black and apply to
all borders. The cell now looks like Figure 1 below when deselected (by
clicking a blank area of the page). Select the cell border by clicking on
it. It will now look like Figure 2.
Then select
Cell Corners and Shadows from the document window.
The defaults settings are 20w, 20h, white background color, black border
color. Apply to all corners. It should look like Figure 3 below.
To enlarge
your cell, just simply select a side (by clicking it) that you would like
to enlarge and drag it to the desired size (as shown in Figure 4 & 5).
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Edit Web Page Content in FrontPage 2003 |
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To delete
one word to the left, press CTRL+BACKSPACE.
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To delete
one word to the right, press CTRL+DELETE.
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To use the
keyboard to access menu bar items, press F10.
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To refresh
the current page, press F5.
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To open a
file in a different program, right-click the file in the Folder List,
click Open With, and then click Choose Program.
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To align
text left, select the text, and then press CTRL+L.
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To align
text right, select the text, and then press CTRL+R.
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To show or
hide HTML tags in Design view, press CTRL+/.
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To show the
Page Options dialog box, in the status bar in the lower-right corner of
the document window, double-click Custom or Default.
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To show the
shortcut menu, press SHIFT+F10.
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To show or
hide the Folder List, press ALT+F1.
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To show or
hide the task pane, press CTRL+F1.
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Using Reveal Tags View in FrontPage 2003 |
By using
Reveal Tags view in FrontPage 2003 (Figure #1), you can quickly identify
duplicate tags, missing end tags or even find improper nesting. Once you
identify the problem, all you would do is click on the tag in question and
switch to CODE view (Figure #2). The selection will already be highlighted
for you so that you can easily make the necessary change(s). To
troubleshoot your web pages using Reveal Tags View:
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Open your
FrontPage 2003 Web in Design View.
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From the
toolbar, select View>> Reveal Tags ( Toggle using CTRL + / )
Once you are
done working with this feature, simply go back to View>> Reveal Tags and
click Reveal Tags again to return to normal view in DESIGN View ( Toggle
using CRTL + / ).
Hint#1: You can work within the Split screen feature (Figure #3) so that
you can quickly make changes in CODE view and check your work back in
DESIGN view.
Hint#2: Hold your mouse cursor over the HTML tag in DESIGN view and
FrontPage will show you the entire text of that Tag.
(Figure #1)
(Figure #2)
(Figure #3)
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Cleaning out your FrontPage 2003 files |
Over time,
your files that are not linked can just be taking up valuable space. In FP
2003, identifying these unlinked files is very easy. Here's how:
Go to View>> Reports>> Problems>> Unlinked Files. You will now see a list
of files that are not linked to your web. As you scroll the list, you can
double click the file to view it and then if you determine that this file
is no longer needed, just simply right click it and select Delete.
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Top Ten Lists in FrontPage 2003 |
FrontPage
2003 helps manage your Web site with the use of top ten lists. As long as
you have Server Extensions or SharePoint installed, you can obtain
information from the following categories:
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Visited Pages: The 10 most visited pages on your
Web site
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Referring Domains: The 10 most common Domains
that sent the visitor to you
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Referring URLs: The 10 most common Web site pages
that sent the visitor to you
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Search Strings: The 10 most common search phrases
used to find your Web site
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Visiting Users: The 10 most common unique
visitors to your Web pages
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Operating Systems: The 10 most common operating
systems used by the visitor
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Browser: The 10 most common browsers used by the
visitor
By using the
above information, you can better understand where your visitors come from
and where they are going so that you can better identify the pages that
need modification in order to increase these numbers.
Here is how to add a top ten list to your Web page:
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Open
FrontPage 2003
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In page
view, choose a page that you would like to have a top ten list
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Select
Insert>> Web Component from the top toolbar
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Click Top
10 List from the resulting Component Type list
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In the
right pane, choose a usage list (described above)
Once you have
inserted the list in to your Web page, publish the page to the Web to view
the selected information. All of the gathered information can be exported
to an Excel spread sheet for further analysis.
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