Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin- November 2001

Welcome to the Publishing edition of the Microsoft^® FrontPage^® Bulletin- there’s a tutorial on making HTML newsletters, a white paper about making FrontPage-based CDs, a trial add-in to get your Web better indexed by search engines and more!
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NEW FORMAT FOR FRONTPAGE BULLETIN
Based on your feedback, we are changing the FrontPage Bulletin to better provide more of the information you want. Along with the recent addition of FrontPage Developer, now there are 2 more new sections devoted to users of FrontPage in Small Business and those in Education/Government. We are listening to you! Please continue to send your comments via email to:
fpcommnt@microsoft.com

COMDEX NOVEMBER 12-16: COME SEE SHAREPOINT TEAM SERVICES
At the Office eXPerience “Effective Collaboration” booth, we will be demonstrating SharePoint Team Services and how you can customize team Web sites with FrontPage. In addition, don't forget to pick up your free evaluation copies of FrontPage at that booth and at our Intranet Solution booth. To register go to:
http://www.key3media.com/comdex/fall2001/

INTERNET WORLD FALL MOVES TO DECEMBER 10-14
In response to the tragic events of September 11, Internet World Fall 2001 has moved from October 1-5 to December 10-14. 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/

BOSTON FRONTPAGE USER GROUP NOVEMBER MEETING
The Boston FPUG, Tuesday, November 20th meeting will be on usability. Their featured guest will be Karen Holtzblatt, co-founder and CEO of InContext Enterprises, Inc., a company specializing in usability and user interface design consulting. Karen is recognized worldwide as an expert on customer-centered design, frequently presents at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences, and co-authored Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. Find out more at:
http://www.frontpageboston.com/

TUTORIAL: MAKING HTML NEWSLETTERS
The e-mail newsletter has emerged as the heavy hitter of the dozen or so current online marketing tools. If you are ready to publish your own HTML email newsletter using FrontPage, this cool tutorial by Thomas Bergman, PHD, will show you how- step by step. Mr. Bergman currently teaches Internet-based business strategy and consulting at the University of Central Oklahoma and recently authored The Essential Guide to Web Strategy for Entrepreneurs. Browse the tutorial at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/usingfp/
3partyarticles.html

WHITE PAPER: USING FRONTPAGE TO PUBLISH CD-ROMS
There are many excellent business reasons to make CD-ROMs in HTML format including: backing up your Web site work, making multimedia presentations, or training, sales and marketing materials like “CD Business Cards”. This white paper, How to Make HTML CDs with FrontPage, explains why it makes sense to publish HTML CDs using FrontPage, what you need to know, and how to do it. Learn more at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/
ARTICLES.HTM

FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB DEVELOPER PROFILE
Meet Cheryl Ross, President of MRG Design and find out how they use FrontPage to develop and publish great Web sites their clients can easily maintain at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/showcase/profile.html

CASE STUDY: COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Through the use of FrontPage® and HiSoftware’s AccRepair for FrontPage, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) brought its site into compliance with federally mandated accessibility standards. Over 4,000 CDE FrontPage-based Web pages were repaired in a single work-week with the combined use of FrontPage as a design tool and AccRepair for FrontPage managing accessibility compliance. Find out more at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/case/coloradocase.htm

IMPROVING THE INTERNATIONAL USER EXPERIENCE
Web servers running the FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 can be easily configured to work with many languages, improving the user experience for International visitors to your Web site. This article “Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 Message Language Set For Microsoft Windows®-based Servers” explains how to provide appropriate message language sets for non-English speakers using FrontPage to visit or author FrontPage-based Web pages. Server administrators of Web servers on the Internet or in multinational organizations should consider installing all of the language sets available for non-English speaking audiences. Contact your server administrator or ISP to request this update described in the article at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/
library/en-us/dnservext/html/fpse2002msgwin.asp

SUBMIT YOUR ADD-IN TO THE NEW ADD-IN CENTER
Developers and other users of FrontPage are creating an amazing variety custom add-ins providing a wide range of additional functionality that’s easily accessed right from within FrontPage. Now, anyone can search for, download or submit add-ins and exchange information about them at the FrontPage Add-in Center. Check it out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/
addin/default.asp

NEW: FEATURED ADD-IN FOR FRONTPAGE
Publish a Web site that gets noticed with the featured FrontPage Add-in Center add-in: Meta Tag Maker 2002. This 14-day trial version is a fully functional download of Meta Tag Maker 2002. It can help you get your FrontPage-based site favorably indexed by search engines by the proper use of meta tags and descriptions. Try it out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/
searchdetail.asp?aid=80

GREAT FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB SITES
Here are some more standouts published with FrontPage:
http://www.akadesign.co.uk/akakiosks/ -COOL graphics, anims and menus!
http://www.mediagroup.com/index.htm -very nice site navigation.
http://www.bluevalleyk12.org –great colors, menus and clean design!

NEW BOOK: MASTERING MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002
How do you create a successful Web site? “Mastering Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Premium Edition” provides you with a host of tools and tips to design dynamic and versatile Web sites. Some of the topics covered include positioning graphics on the Web, using cascading style sheets, integrating JavaScript, Visual Basic® Script (VBScript), and dynamic HTML, using ActiveX®, writing CGI and Perl scripts, and using FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint™ Team Services. http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?
theisbn=0782140033&vm=&p=msoffice&s=44710

Here are some publishing tips to help fine tune your FrontPage-based Web site-

TRACK ALL OF YOUR PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES
In FrontPage 2002 you can use Publishing Log Files to help keep track of all your publishing activities in an easy to view list. Learn how you can review precisely what was published when on your Web site then sort the log file to look at specific information such as Confirmations and Warnings at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/
TipsAndTricks/FP2002/52_TrackPublishing.htm

HOW TO INSERT AN INVISIBLE HIT COUNTER
In FrontPage 2000 you can place invisible hit counters in your Web pages. These hit counters can't be seen by visitors, but you can use them as a Web site reporting tool. Here’s how at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/
TipsAndTricks/fp2000/InvisibleHitCounter.htm

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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