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AspenBayCandles
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E-COMMERCE
FORMS
1. When
collecting leads online, keep in mind it’s
best to only ask for
essential information. Most site visitors shy away from
long forms.
2. Include a field for customer feedback in your forms, and use the information to
improve
your products, services, or
shopping process.
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HOSTPRO
OFFERS WINDOWS 2000 HOSTING SOLUTION
HostPro,
which offers the Microsoft Windows 2000 Mission product line for
FrontPage Web developers,
is giving away a free Miva shopping cart when you
sign up with them for Web hosting.
HostPro has no setup charges and offers
30 days of free hosting.
Sign up
now so you can get your site up and running in time for the holidays.
Check out the details of
this special offer at:
http://www.hostpro.net/
promo/shared/win2k.asp
?FP2KNL
DOWNLOAD
A FREE* BOOK: "ELEMENTS OF WEB SITE PROMOTION
A
company providing FrontPage Web site promotion add-ins, HiSoftware
recently
published "Elements of Web Site Promotion," which
contains great tips for
driving traffic to e-commerce sites. As a FrontPage
Bulletin subscriber, you can access
it free*. You will need
Adobe Acrobat to view it. The password to read it is “GraniteState”, (without
the quotes).
Start downloading now at: http://www.hisoftware.com/
downloads/elements.pdf
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SUBMIT
YOUR FAVORITE WEB SITE BUILT WITH FRONTPAGE
December’s issue will be all about great design
and great themes. Send us
the address of a great Web site built with FrontPage,
and we'll include
highlights
of them in the December FrontPage Bulletin. You can also
include a short
comment about why it’s great.
To
participate, just send an e-mail message to FPTIPS@microsoft.com
with "Great Design" in the subject line. Please include the
site address (or URL) in the body of the message. Remember, only sites built with FrontPage are eligible.
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Welcome
to this month's E-Commerce edition of the FrontPage
Bulletin.
Be sure to visit us at: http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
To
manage your subscription or unsubscribe, see the bottom of this
newsletter.
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FRONTPAGE
WAS A BIG HIT AT INTERNET WORLD
At Internet World in October, more than 500 people got hands-on exposure to
the FrontPage Web site creation and management tool. Third-party
solution providers LaGarde, PDG, and ComCity were also on hand to demonstrate all the e-commerce
functionality now available to FrontPage users.
If
you did not attend this conference but would like to learn more about
the power and ease of implementing e-commerce solutions on your
FrontPage Web site, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/solutions/
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ADD
E-COMMERCE CAPABILITY TO YOUR SITE
The
Microsoft FrontPage Web site creation and management tool
makes it easier than ever for you to add e-commerce functionality to
your Web site. For in-depth guidance on how to do this, read the
"Using Electronic Commerce with Microsoft FrontPage 2000" white paper. It explains how
FrontPage
can support your e-commerce strategy and covers terminology, methods, security, site design, third-party
solutions, and more.
To download this article, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/Frontpage/usingecom.htm
CREATE
AN ONLINE STOREFRONT
WITH FRONTPAGE 2000
Learn
how to implement an effective e-commerce strategy, integrating
third-party e-commerce solutions, transferring
sensitive information
securely, and more.
Read
this article at: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/
fpOnlineStoreFront.htm
COLLECT
SALES LEADS ONLINE WITH
FRONTPAGE 2000
FrontPage 2000 can help you take control of your future success by
streamlining the process of gathering sales leads. Follow this step-by-step guide on how to create customized online forms
that collect information on sales leads and then store the data in an
accessible file:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/
fpSalesLeads.htm
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ASPENBAYCANDLES.COM
This month we feature the FrontPage-based e-commerce
Web site AspenBayCandles.com. Using StoreFront –- an e-commerce
solution for Microsoft FrontPage developed by LaGarde -- Aspen Bay
Company of Starkville, Mississippi,
has combined its retail stores with an online Web presence
to become a versatile, worldwide supplier of fragrant candles.
View its site at:
http://www.aspenbaycandles.com/
For
more examples of Web sites using e-commerce solutions with FrontPage,
check out the Gallery of FrontPage-based E-Commerce Sites at: http://www.microsoft.com/Frontpage/ecomgallery.htm
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RICH
MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC OFFERS INTEGRATED
E-COMMERCE SOLUTION FOR
FRONTPAGE
Rich Media Technologies, Inc., located in Englewood, Colorado, offers
the JustAddCommerce plug-in component for Microsoft FrontPage 2000,
which can automatically add a shopping cart to your existing Web site.
It works seamlessly with the FrontPage editor so it is always available
to you as you build or modify your site. For more information about this plug-in and Rich Media Technologies,
Inc., visit:
http://www.richmediatech.com/web/index.asp
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CREATE
A DATABASE WITH AN HTML FORM
Want
to send customer data from a form on your web site directly to a new
database? With the ASP Web Wizard 2000 in FrontPage 2000, you can
automatically create an Access database in your FrontPage web using
the fields of your HTML form.
Here’s how-
First- Create Your Form:
To
create your form, follow these steps:
1. On the File menu, point to New, and click Web.
2.
In the New dialog box, click to select Empty Web. Type the HTTP location
of your new web in the "Specify location of the new web" box.
Click OK.
Important! Make sure this is an HTTP location. Disk-based webs will not
work with ASP.
3. On the File menu, point to New, and click Page. Click
to select
Normal Page, and click OK.
4.
On the Insert menu, point to Form, and click Form.
This will add Submit and Reset buttons surrounded by the form,
represented by a dashed-line bounding box.
5. With the insertion
point in front of the Submit button, type "First Name: "
(without the quotation marks). On the Insert menu, point to Form, and
click One-Line Text Box.
Right-click the text box, and click Form Field Properties. In the Name
box, type "FirstName" (without the quotation marks), and click
OK. Select the text and the text box.
On the Insert menu, point to Form, and click Label.
Press Enter to move the insertion point down two lines.
6.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 until your form looks similar to the following
First Name:
Last Name:
City:
State:
Use
the following names for the form fields:
LastName,
City, State
Next- Create the Database Using the HTML Form:
To create the Access database with your HTML form, follow these steps:
1. Right-click
anywhere in the form, and click Form Properties.
2. In the Form Properties dialog box, click to select the Send To
Database option, and click Options.
3. In the Options for Saving Results to Database dialog box,
click Create Database.
You will receive a message confirming the database has been created and
its location. Click OK. Click OK until you return to the form.
4. Save your page as "form.asp" (without the quotation
marks) to your FrontPage web.
For a look at these steps with pictures of the FrontPage
dialog boxes used go to-
http://support.microsoft.com/support/
frontpage/fp2000/aspweb/page00002.asp
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