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Front Page 98

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Creating a professional-looking Web site using FrontPage is easier than ever. This unique Editor builds complete sites in which all pages share a consistent, easily modified design, including navigation tools that the program builds automatically when you add or remove pages.

FrontPage Menus Versus Buttons

Choosing a FrontPage 98 menu item doesn’t always yield the same results as clicking on the associated toolbar button. Case in point: the New command. Clicking the New button on the toolbar in the FrontPage Editor creates and opens a single blank page in the FrontPage Editor, but choosing New… from the File menu opens a dialog box that lets you choose from a number of new page templates, including frames page templates, for automatically creating pages that include forms, multiple columns and aligned text, frames, and more. As a rule of thumb, when the actions differ, the toolbar button is more likely to quickly yield a single result, while a menu item may reveal more options

Manage your site with improved views

FrontPage 98 offers you a variety of ways to view the files in your FrontPage Web site. Each view offers its own advantages when you perform Web site maintenance and management tasks. For instance, if you highlight a file in the Folders View, the All Files View, the Navigation View or the Hyperlinks View, that file will remain selected when you switch to one of the other views. You might do this, for example, if you find a file in the All Files View that you want to move from one folder into another folder. Select the file in the All Files View, switch to the Folders View, and then drag the file to its new location.

Making form text fields wrap in Navigator

With text boxes in forms or discussion forums, there’s a key difference in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer handles text entry from the way Netscape handles it. Whereas IE automatically wraps the text inside a text box, Netscape’s text simply runs off the edge without wrapping.
Fortunately, there’s an easy solution. First, create the text box using Frontpage Editor. Then, click the HTML tab to switch to HTML view. As part of the coding for the textbox, you should see something like this:
<textarea rows="12" name="Contact" cols="8" ></textarea>
To ensure that text will wrap correctly in Netscape, type
    wrap="virtual"
directly into the HTML coding. It should look like this:
<textarea rows="12" name="Contact" cols="8" wrap="virtual">
  Now the text will wrap correctly in both browsers.

Making text flow around an image

If you want your text to flow around an image, you’ll need to add an alignment setting to your image. Right-click the image and choose Image Properties... from the context menu. Then, choose Left or Right from the Alignment dropdown list. (With left alignment, the text will flow around the image’s right side; with right alignment, just the opposite will happen.)
To add space between the image and the text, enter numbers in the Horizontal Space and Vertical Space fields.
  If you prefer to work directly in HTML, here’s what the <img> tag would look like:
<img src="yourfile.gif" border=0 width%0 height00 align=left hspace=5 vspace=5>

Quickly modify page elements

In FrontPage 98, many of the characteristics assigned to a page element--such as paragraph formatting, image attributes, or FrontPage Component attributes--are selected by manipulating various settings in the corresponding feature's Properties dialog box. To reach the various Properties dialog boxes more quickly, simply use your mouse and right-click on the page element in the FrontPage Editor. When you do, a context-sensitive menu will pop up, allowing you to open that element's Properties dialog in order to make changes easily.

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