Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin- February 2002

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DESIGN, BUILD, MASTER WITH FRONTPAGE 2002
An effective business Web presence requires professional design software. But which one’s going to best help you design, build and master the Web? Small Business Computing.com, an online publication of INT Media Group, Inc. reviewed in their January 16th Webmaster column three top Web design packages. They gave Microsoft FrontPage 2002 the highest score of all- 90%! Read their review at:
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/
article.php/956821

FRONTPAGE ADD-IN CENTER BUSY AND GROWING
The FrontPage Add-in Center Web site was launched last summer to help Microsoft partners, Web developers, and others create and share add-ins within the user community. At the Center, you can download or submit add-ins and exchange information. It didn't take long for word to spread with add-ins being downloaded over 160,000 times to date! And the number of new add-ins has grown more than 500% with 14 new ones posted in just the last week! Now, to help Center users find them more easily, new categories have been added to search including, “e-Commerce”, “Education and Training”, “Multimedia/Special FX,” “Productivity, Publishing/Site Management”, “Themes”, and “Web Templates”. Check them out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/
default.asp

ANNOUNCING THE OFFICE USER COMMUNITY
Introducing your forum for all things Office. Novice or expert user, this community can help you make the most of your Office experience. Share ideas, get advice, chat with fellow Office users. It's your community, and it's all at:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/

VISUAL STUDIO .NET LAUNCHES 02.13.02. RIGHT HERE.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET, the most sophisticated, productivity-enhancing development toolset ever created for developers and software architects. For a complete list of cities, dates, and agendas or a FREE Visual Studio .NET trial edition DVD and more, visit:
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/go/NetTools

FRONTPAGE 2002 TUTORIAL: DESIGNING GREAT SITES
Help your business grow online! This tutorial for Microsoft FrontPage version 2002 shows you how to use many features in FrontPage as you create and edit Web pages, and then design and publish a Web site containing those pages. You will learn to make hyperlinks, import graphics, design a feedback form, and add navigation bars to pages. Download the tutorial at:
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2002/FPT2002.aspx

MICROSOFT DESIGN GALLERY LIVE
Check out Design Gallery Live for great graphics, photos, Web animations, and sound clips to add to your business Web site. February’s Featured clips will fulfill your heart's desire, put your documents to work, and make your Web pages rocket into action. Valentine's Day clips, industry-related images, and Web animations are featured this month at:
http://dgl.microsoft.com/

FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB TEMPLATE MANUAL
Hardwick~Day, (hardwickday.com), was asked by Whittier College to develop a new design and template for the college’s FrontPage-based Web site. Hardwick~Day’s Web project lead, Tim Corwin, also created a Web template manual to help people within the Whittier College community understand the new web template and how to adhere to the same basic structure throughout the Web site when adding or updating various parts of it. The manual is full of excellent design tips for FrontPage users and can be found at:
http://www.whittier.edu/template/

WEB ACCESSIBILITY COURSE FOR FRONTPAGE
KEI Pearson, a subsidiary of NCS Pearson Inc. and HiSoftware, Inc., announced they are partnering to develop training in HiSoftware’s AccVerify and AccRepair accessibility add-ins for FrontPage. Web developers using Microsoft FrontPage will be able to take training classes from KEI Pearson that discuss US Federal government accessibility requirements and Section 508 compliance. The new course offering, which will provide full training on these accessibility verification and repair tools, will be available from KEI Pearson in April 2002 and be offered at their CTEC center, around the United States and worldwide. Find out more at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/press/kei.htm

ADVANCED THEME CUSTOMIZATION
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 includes a theme named Blank, which you can use to create a unique theme from scratch. If you apply the Blank theme to your Web site, you will see that this is a fairly plain Theme. The Blank theme provides a list of built-in styles that you can modify to suit your purposes. When used in conjunction with a SharePoint Team Services-based Web site, the Blank theme provides a list of all the unique styles embedded in the team Web site, which you can modify to suit your needs.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/
en-us/fpsdk2002/html/ThemesAdvanced.asp

CASCADING STYLE SHEETS: INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5 & 6
This article: “What's New for DHTML in Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet Tools”, provides information about Internet Explorer 5.5’s improved support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification CSS1, with features such as borders, margin, and padding on inline elements, etc. This version of Internet Explorer also continues to support all the standards supported in previous releases, including leading support for technologies such as XML. More at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/
en-us/dnie55/html/dnie55ie55.asp
The article, “CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6”, describes the enhanced support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/
en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp

NEW: FEATURED ADD-IN FOR FRONTPAGE
Need to get started quickly, but don’t have great design skills? The Microsoft FrontPage Add-ins Center has a terrific collection of add-ins to help you design a top-notch Web site. Find great templates to jump start your FrontPage-based web site at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/
searchresults.asp?idcat=17&x=10&y=8

GREAT FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB SITES
Here are some more standouts:
http://www.trailsource.com/ -great design and navigation integration.
http://www.asheville.cc.nc.us/ -nice use of mouseovers in campus image map navigation.
http://www.DavidAlanWolters.com –eye catching online photo galleries.
http://www.ajhastings.com/ -e-commerce site with attractive clothing catalog.

FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB DEVELOPER PROFILE
Meet Sayyed Bashir, Technology Manager, Electric Web Designs and find out how he uses JASC Software Inc.’s Paint Shop Pro and FrontPage to create Web sites with outstanding graphic design at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/showcase/profile.html

PAINT SHOP PRO GRAPHICS TUTORIALS
Paint Shop Pro, graphics authoring software by JASC Software Inc., can help you create great looking Web sites with FrontPage. Here are 2 hands-on tutorials-
Creating attractive Web buttons at:
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials/revised/buttons.asp?
How to optimize your images using Paint Shop Pro at:
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials/revised/optimizing.asp?

FRONTPAGE 2002: CREATING CUSTOM THEMES
This tutorial by David Pfeiffer of FrontLook.com shows you how to create a modern looking wrap-around theme using shared borders and the new link bars features in FrontPage 2002. Take the tutorial and also find out about DPA Software’s Super Themes Sampler add-in for FrontPage, "Super Theme Format" implementation, and "Super Theme Installer" packaging at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/usingfp/
3partyarticles.html

CREATE DYNAMIC AND COMPELLING WEB SITES
The “FrontPage 2002 Bible” is an authoritative guide providing everything you need to know to master FrontPage. Learn how to integrate FrontPage with Office applications, work with pictures and multimedia, activate Web pages, connect databases to the Web, develop custom solutions, and much more at:
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp
?theisbn=076453582X&vm=&p=msoffice&s=44710

For additional resources, visit the MSOFFICE Bookstore:
http://www1.fatbrain.com/partners/msoffice/home.asp

TIPS FOR CHANGING GRAPHICS IN THEMES
In a Microsoft FrontPage theme, graphics that you can change in themes can be ones you create yourself (using Paint or drawing software) or graphics you get from other sources like clip-art libraries. Find out how at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/
en-us/fpsdk2002/html/ThemesHandsOnTipsGraphics.asp

HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM WEB TEMPLATES
Find out how to create a Web template from any Web and make it available in the Template or Wizard list in the New FrontPage Web dialog box at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;
Q205694

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