Microsoft FrontPage FanZine- July 2002

Welcome to the Microsoft^® FrontPage^® FanZine with a special focus on coding! And don’t forget to fill out our survey or check out the special offer on FrontPage 2002.

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ADD-IN CENTER TRAFFIC APPROACHING ONE MILLION
The Microsoft FrontPage Add-in Center Web site, launched late last summer, helps Microsoft partners, Web developers, and others create and share add-ins within the user community. The center has been a big hit and shown itself to be a valuable resource for the FrontPage community with traffic now rapidly approaching the 1,000,000 mark. Find out all about it out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/

FREE MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS SEMINARS COMING TO YOU
In the office, online, or on the road, experience the tools and technology to increase productivity at your business. Learn how to improve the way you manage your business using Microsoft Windows® XP Professional and Microsoft Office XP Professional! Discover valuable resources for maximizing connectivity and Internet resources with Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft bCentral, FrontPage, SharePoint Team Services, and more. For more information and a complete agenda visit:
http://www.msbigday.com/Default.asp

LEARN HOW TO SPELL HTML
Users buy FrontPage because raw HTML code can irritate their digestive tract. Barbara Sehr, who has created Web sites since 1995, has discovered that a chunk of raw code served with generous helpings of FrontPage can actually sweeten Web development. Find out how at:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/
fp_colspellhtml.aspx

CATCHING CODE
In this column, consultant and author Mark Gibbs shows you how to look under the hood of your Web pages and find out how other people do cool things on their Web sites. He even shows you how to carefully (and legally!) use those cool things on your own site at:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/
fp_colcatchingcode.aspx

BASIC HTML COURSE PROVIDES PROGRAMMING INTRO
Greg R. Notess, founder of SearchEngineShowdown.com and an award-winning author, consultant, and frequent conference speaker, shows you how to introduce programming and mark-up concepts to a non-technical audience by showing basic HTML coding used in a simple Web page. Check it out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/community/columns/
edcolumn02.htm

LINKING GOVERNMENT WITH ITS CITIZENRY
The missing link to connect governments with constituents might be just that, a missing link. Governments with Web sites have unlimited opportunities to communicate with residents, but sometimes the communication isn’t what it should be because the Web sites lack easy-to-use links. Bryan M. Gold, communications manager for non-profit Public Technology, Inc., writes about ways governments can provide links on their Web sites using FrontPage. For more, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/community/columns/
govcolumn03.htm

USING XML WEB SERVICES WITH FRONTPAGE
Jimco, founder of Jimco Add-ins for FrontPage, has a history of pushing FrontPage to its limits. With Microsoft’s release of Extensibility Markup Language (XML) Web Services comes the excitement of a new arena for Web developers. Jimco shows you how to use FrontPage to tap into this exciting new technology at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfp2k2/html/
odc_fpWSvc.asp

DEBUGGING FRONTPAGE 2002 SCRIPTS WITH THE SCRIPT EDITOR
Lee Wayl, who has mostly spent the last twenty years in front of a computer, shows you how to use the debugging tools built into the full featured Script Editor that comes with FrontPage 2002. Learn to trace, locate, and correct pesky errors in your Visual Basic® Script (VBScript) and JScript® code at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfp2k2/html/
odc_fpDebugScripts.asp

BEST PRACTICES WORKING WITH HTML CODE IN FRONTPAGE 2002
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 contains many improvements to support advanced Web authoring. To learn how FrontPage generates HTML, meets interoperability and standards-compliance requirements, and find out about best coding practices, read all about it at:
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url
=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/001/978/
msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true

FEATURED ADD-IN FOR FRONTPAGE
This add-in for FrontPage contains the Comprehensive JScript and VBScript Reference with handy blocks of information to help you explore the many different parts of the JScript and Visual Basic Scripting languages. There are even reference tutorials to help you learn how to use advanced coding methods to increase the functionality on your Web site. Download it from the FrontPage Add-in Center at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/
searchdetail.asp?aid=149

GREAT FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB SITES
The Entertainment Department UK Ltd., an entertainment provider to 25 holiday resorts in England, Scotland, and Wales, needed to improve team communication and training. Realizing that an online solution could improve the efficiency of their operation and help them recruit new entertainers, gather feedback from their park managers and visitors, and provide marketing support for both their park teams and manufacturers across the country, they chose FrontPage to help them build a Web solution. Find out more at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/evaluation/gallery/
ted.htm

Iconofile is a non-profit organization devoted to those interested in icons and icon painting while promoting preservation of the art. Early on, the founders realized that a Web site could help them accomplish their informational objectives, raise money to support the organization's future plans and activities, and create a robust online community, encouraging volunteers to donate time, money and articles. Learn how FrontPage helped them reach their goals at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/evaluation/gallery/
icon.htm

TOOLS, TRAINING, AND TEMPLATES FROM FRONTPAGE WORLD
During the month of July, FrontPage World is offering a great collection of tools, templates, and books that can help you save development time and create professional Web sites at:
http://www.frontpageworld.com/frontpagetools/
frontpagefanzine.htm

HTML FORMATTING AND OPTIONAL REFORMATTING
You can tell FrontPage 2002 how your HTML page should be formatted, from how many indents should come before each tag, to whether or not to use optional tags. By default, FrontPage preserves the formatting of existing HTML, but applies new HTML formatting to content you add to the existing page. HTML formatting is viewed in the HTML pane. The formatting options you choose will apply to all pages you create in FrontPage. New in FrontPage 2002 is the ability to take a page that has been imported into your Web and reformat the page according to your preferences.

To apply your HTML formatting preferences to a Web page, open it in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:

1. On the Tools menu, click Page Options, and then click the HTML Source tab.
2. Click Reformat using the rules below.
3. Under Formatting, select the options you want.
For example, if you want all tags to appear as lowercase instead of uppercase, select Tag names are lowercase.
4. Under Tags, select the tag and attributes you want.
For example, select Body, and then change indent to 12 spaces.
FrontPage will change the HTML pages you create in FrontPage to use these formatting rules.

For more Tips and Tricks using FrontPage, visit: http://search.office.microsoft.com/assistance/
producttask.aspx?p=FrontPage

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