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Welcome to this month's DESIGN edition of the FrontPage® Bulletin. Be sure to visit us on the Web at:
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COME SEE FRONTPAGE AT THE WINWRITERS ONLINE HELP CONFERENCE
Join us at the ninth annual conference from March 4 to 8, 2001, in Santa Clara, CA. With five days and 85 sessions dedicated to software user assistance, you will get the latest on new technologies, information design, content development, and authoring tools. More than 1300 technical writers, documentation managers, Web developers, and programmers expected! Call 206-285-2605/1-800-838-8999
(US/Canada) for more information or go to:
http://www.winwriters.com/ohc
FRONTPAGE ANOTHER BIG HIT AT COMDEX, ISP CONFERENCES
Both COMDEX (Nov. 13-17) and the ISP Conference (Nov. 3-10) had fantastic turnouts, and interest in Microsoft FrontPage 2000 was everywhere. Hundreds of attendees lined up to get to know FrontPage 2000 web site creation and management tool hands on. Everyone came away with a better understanding of the powerful functionality, ease of use, and great features FrontPage has to offer.
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USING THEMES AND SHARED BORDERS IN MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2000
With Microsoft Office Themes, you can easily add professionally designed graphics, custom colors, and custom fonts to Office documents, Web pages, and Web sites. Closely related to Themes are features in FrontPage such as shared borders, page banners and navigation bars. To download a white paper that provides hands-on exercises you can use to create your own FrontPage-based Web site using Themes, go to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/languages/fp/2000
/fp2kthemes.asp
OPTIMIZING GRAPHICS FOR WEB SITES
A picture might be worth a thousand words, but is it worth 10 seconds of download time? Find out how to trim the fat from pictures you add to your Microsoft FrontPage-based Web. To download this article, go to: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles
/fpoptgfx.htm
CHOOSING A FILE FORMAT FOR WEB GRAPHICS
Nearly all graphics on the Internet use one of two formats: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) or GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). Get the scoop on when to use one format instead of the other. To download this article, go to:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles
/fpgfxfmt.htm
THEMES AND MORE THEMES
Themes are a quick and powerful way for FrontPage to give you a professional look and feel that's consistent across your Web site. Visit OutFront's Theme page to get great information on using and developing themes. And to check out their links to many popular theme vendors, go to:
http://www.outfront.net/frontpagethemes.htm
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Outstanding Sites Designed with FrontPage
Last month we asked you to send us the address of a great Web site built with FrontPage so we could include highlights of them in the December Bulletin. The response was tremendous and hundreds of the sites are outstanding! Below is just a sampling of them:
http://www.macautourism.gov.mo/
-Tourism Web site with great use of scrolling banners, timed pictures. Conveys excitement!
http://www.amerks.com/ -Sports site that shows excellent use of themes -- shared borders, frames, tables, and graphics.
http://mountainnature.com/
-Wildlife info site makes wonderful use of database and forms.
http://www.cyzap.com/main.htm
-Professional Web site with clean, business design as well as simple, functional submit resume and feedback forms.
http://www.pdmaui.com/ -Streaming media content and use of FrontPage to display their Digital Quality Pictures makes this site a great place to see shots of Hawaii.
http://www.montgomerycancercenter.com/
-Simple uncluttered look with minimum graphics and loads of information.
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/
-Good clean site with excellent navigation.
http://www.myresume.webprovider.com/
-Great use of text events (DHTML) and overall graphic design in a bilingual resume site.
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AIT SPECIALIZES IN HOSTING FRONTPAGE WEB SITES
Build the Web site that will do what you need with FrontPage 2000 and host it with Advanced Internet Technologies. Advanced Internet Technologies, based in North Carolina, currently hosts more than 70,000 domains that utilize FrontPage. Open an account now, and we'll waive the setup fee. Add e-commerce capability with AIT's revolutionary Mcart (also included free) and you're in business. Order online at:
https://www.aitcom.net/virtform.htm
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FROM SCREAMDESIGN: HOW TO WAKE UP PAGES WITH TEXT EVENTS
An "event" is an action, such as a page opening after a link is clicked, a form resetting after a button is pressed, or a sound playing after an image is moused over. This sounds much more complicated than it really is; it merely means that when the user clicks somewhere on the page, something happens.
FrontPage has pre-scripted a number of DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language) events so that you don't have to be a programmer to add event-based effects to your page. When these effects are applied to text, you suddenly have a dynamic, eye-catching page.
To apply these effects to text:
1. Highlight the text.
2. Under Format, click Dynamic HTML Effects. The DHTML menu appears on the menu bar.
3. Choose an event handler from the left menu.
4. Choose an "Apply" method from the center menu.
5. If prompted, choose additional parameters from the rightmost menu.
For example, if you choose to have words fly off the page, you need to specify which direction they should fly.
For complete details, see the ScreamDesign tutorial, "Text Events," at:
http://www.screamdesign.com/html/frontpage/tips
/fptip144.html
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