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Front Page 98

Tutorials,
Tips, Tricks,
and Links

* Using Cascading Style Sheets to change your form buttons
* Viewing the Navigation View
* Using FTP Programs and Front Page98

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web standard supported primarily by the "version 4" browsers. It lets you control dozens of aspects of your pages’ appearance.
One easy thing you can do with CSS is change the font and colors of your form buttons. To do so, first insert a button as you ordinarily would. Then, right-click on the button and choose Form Field Properties... from the context menu. Click the Style... button to open the Style dialog box.
To change the font of the button caption, switch to the Font page of the dialog and choose a new font from the Primary Font dropdown list. (You should also choose a "generic" secondary font, such as sans-serif, in case your primary font is not available on the user’s machine.) To change the color scheme, switch to the Colors page. The foreground color you choose here will be the text color; the background color will be the color of the button itself. Click OK twice to return to your page.
Since CSS hasn’t been universally adopted, your results will vary. However, older browsers should simply ignore your specifications and style the button as usual.

Viewing the Navigation View

If you have a small computer monitor, or a large FrontPage Web site, the pages in the FrontPage Explorer’s Navigation View may become unwieldy. Two buttons on the FrontPage Explorer toolbar can help, though. The first, the Rotate button, will allow you to rotate the site map from a top-down orientation to a left-to-right orientation. The other button, the Size to Fit button, reduces the entire navigational map to fit within the window space available.

Using FTP Programs and Front Page98

You can use FTP programs and Front Page 98, as long as you understand how the programs differ, let me explain:
When you create your web pages with FP98 the program also makes what they call "hidden files" or more specifically configuration files, i.e. _private, _vti_bin, _vti_cnf, _vti_log, _vti_pvt, _vti_txt,
You will not see these files with FP98 because  they're hidden. With an FTP program you will see all the "hidden"  or configuration files.
When you make your web pages these "hidden" files also become configuration files for the operating system you have. If you are running Windows 95 then these files are configured for Windows 95, if you are running DOS then these files are configured for DOS.
The problem is when you upload your web pages with an FTP program you assume these "hidden" files must also be uploaded. If your web server is Unix and you just uploaded configuration files for Windows95, WHAM, your server crashes!!!
In short if you use an FTP program with Front Page 98 only upload your .html, .htm, images or cgi scripts.

NEVER NEVER NEVER upload the "hidden files"!!!

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