Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin- December 2001

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DON’T FORGET TO VISIT US AT INTERNET WORLD
During this exciting annual event on December 10-14, don’t forget to check out FrontPage’s theater presentations, hands-on lab and booth. The 2001 conference offers 25 full-day focused forums, 60 conference sessions, and is divided into the following tracks: Enterprise, E-Business, Development and Infrastructure. To attend, go to:
http://www.internetworldnews.com/events/

GET TO KNOW SHAREPOINT TEAM SERVICES
Microsoft® SharePoint Team Services (STS) is a new Web site technology available with Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002 that allows even the most novice user to quickly set up a team intranet or extranet site. Share information, collaborate on documents, and collect team knowledge. Using a Web browser-based interface, SharePoint Team Services allows users to easily add, modify, and delete information on their team Web site. Learn how to instantly create a Web site that acts as the central repository of all project information- documents, contacts, tasks, discussions, and much more by taking an interactive tutorial. You can also check if your FrontPage Web Presence Provider hosts SharePoint Team Services-based Web sites or locate one that does. Find out all about it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/sharepoint/

CASE STUDY: TOA ELECTRONICS
Convergent Computing developed a SharePoint Team Services-based Web solution that will help TOA Electronics access information faster, provide easy to use training programs, and co-create and maintain vital business documents by implementing a central location for workgroups to share documents and contact information, and serve as a discussion forum for collaboration. Convergent used FrontPage version 2002 to tailor the sites by adding items, such as lists customized to TOA’s environment and made additional modifications—such as adding TOA logos and TOA color scheme. Learn more at:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/indepth/
casestudies/convergent.htm

UPDATE: HTML NEWSLETTER TUTORIAL
In last month’s issue we brought you a cool tutorial by Thomas Bergman on how to publish your own HTML email newsletter using FrontPage. Based on your feedback, Mr. Bergman has added a new section- “Step 8: Sending the Newsletter”. Check it out at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/usingfp/
3partyarticles.html

SAMPLE: ART SCHOOL TEAM WEB SITE
Educators should find SharePoint Team Services one of the easiest ways for any type of student team or workgroup to use the Web to share information. This sample Art school Web site demonstrates how you can quickly create and fully customize your SharePoint Team Services-based Web site with Microsoft FrontPage version 2002. Take a look at:
http://www.sharepointsample.com/training/

GOVERNMENT WEB DEVELOPER PROFILE
Meet Jerry Washburn of NetConsult Internet Services, Inc. and find out how they use FrontPage and SharePoint Team Services to create great collaboration Web sites their governmental clients can easily maintain at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/showcase/profile.html

CASE STUDY: U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
Information Strategies, a Microsoft Certified Partner, used Microsoft Office XP to develop a custom solution that makes business processes more efficient for the U.S. State Department. The solution facilitates collaboration among employees who create documents and automates the review and approval of the documents. The solution takes advantage of many new features of Office XP, including collaboration tools, document routing, document tracking, smart tags, and SharePoint Team Services.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/indepth/
casestudies/infostrat.htm

SHAREPOINT TEAM SERVICES SDK V1.1
The Software Development Kit (SDK) for SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft provides conceptual and reference information about the languages and protocols that can be used to build custom solutions for a SharePoint team Web site. Download it from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/
downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/678/
msdncompositedoc.xml

CASE STUDY: DEET, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
OBS Pty Ltd., a specialist in Business to Employee (B2E) solutions, provided Australia’s State of Victoria, Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET) a successful Intranet solution to help project teams and business units with a new collaborative workspace in which to exchange ideas, documents and general information specific to each workgroup or team. SharePoint Portal Server is also to be used within DEET to index and catalogue other corporate information maintained in Microsoft Exchange, Web sites and traditional Windows® NT file server environments. Learn how at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/showcase/
casestudy.html

DEPLOY, CUSTOMIZE, MAINTAIN, AND SUPPORT
For all of your technical questions about SharePoint, check out this clearinghouse of resources provided by Microsoft TechNet, including migrating SharePoint Team sites, large scale deployments, departmental deployment, and administering Usage Analysis at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/
default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/sharepnt/default.asp
And this white paper covers the multiple customization options that are available from within the Web browser, using FrontPage 2002, and more at:
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/sharepnt/
maintain/featusability/spcustom.asp

NEW: FEATURED ADD-IN FOR FRONTPAGE
With WebCharts 3D Enterprise Edition you can insert over 100 different charts and grids into your pages. Bind charts and grids to the databases, excel spreadsheets and files. Drill-down into the data in real-time and update the elements without refreshing the page and more. Try it out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/
searchdetail.asp?aid=58

FRONTPAGE ADD-IN DEVELOPER PROFILE
Meet Alex Tushinsky of LTMOD Computer Solutions, Inc. and find out how he extends FrontPage by developing great add-ins at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/showcase/profile.html

GREAT FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB SITES
Here are some more standouts:
http://www.ositech.com/Default.asp -Very clean navigation and graphics
http://brucemitchel.com/Default.htm -Has a very effective integrated PowerPoint® HTML presentation
http://www.photographybykrista.com/ -Simple site with background sound and great galleries
http://www.sunraygraphics.com/ -Nice logo and roll-overs

NEW BOOK: 8 STEPS TO FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB SITES
Building a Web site tailored to your business needs is just eight steps away with “Effective Executive’s Guide to FrontPage Web Sites: The Eight Steps for Designing, Building and Managing FrontPage Web Sites.” From developing a content strategy and laying a foundation to spicing up your Web site with interactive features, this handy guide delivers the essential information about creating effective nonprofit organization and business Web sites.
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theis
bn=096729813X&vm=&p=msoffice&s=44710

CALENDAR WIZARD 2002
This Add-in for FrontPage from Webs Unlimited, Inc., quickly creates and publishes one-month calendar pages of events that all departments in your organization can view. With Calendar Wizard 2002, you can select a month in a year, predefine and store events, name your page URL and page title; click finish, and watch Calendar Wizard generate a web page containing your custom calendar. Special for users of FrontPage only $10.00 at:
http://www.websunlimited.com/calwiz2002_promo.htm

SHAREPOINT TEAM SERVICES-BASED CUSTOMIZATION
To get started with SharePoint Team Services-based customization, here are some great tips to help fine tune your SharePoint Team Services-based Web site using FrontPage. These articles will help first-time through advanced users make changes to SharePoint Team Services-based Web sites using FrontPage version 2002. To get an overview of SharePoint Team Services-based customization by level of difficulty, try one of the links below:
http://www.sharepointsample.com

WRITE A TIP CONTEST FOR FRONTPAGE 2002
Experience all of the new and improved capabilities of FrontPage 2002, and then share your experience with everyone else by entering our Office XP "T-Shirts for Tipsters" Contest at:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/tipstricks/
submittip.htm

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