FrontPage 2000 Developer's Guide

Name: FrontPage 2000 Developer's Guide
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ISBN: 9780072119725

ISBN-10: 0072119721

ISBN-13: 9780072119725

Edition: 1999

Authors: Mike Jennet

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This book will help users build sophisticated Web sites and intranets with FrontPage 2000, integrate Office functionality with FrontPage to create seamless intranets, and master advanced scripting, XML, Active X controls, and Active Server Pages.

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 705
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.190
Language: English

Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
What's on the CD	p. xxi
Cutting-Edge Design and Layout Techniques
An Introduction to FrontPage 2000	p. 3
FrontPage 2000 Webs	p. 5
New and Improved Features in FrontPage 2000	p. 5
Site Design Elements	p. 5
Site Management Elements	p. 9
Database Elements	p. 14
Scripting Elements	p. 17
Programming Elements	p. 17
Office Integration	p. 18
Wizards	p. 18
Website Management Tools	p. 19
Working with Webs	p. 19
Editing Your Website	p. 26
Summary	p. 28
Advanced Layout	p. 29
Developing with HTML	p. 30
HTML Tags	p. 30
Special Characters	p. 42
Cross-Browser Compatibility	p. 43
Incorporating Custom HTML into Your FrontPage Web	p. 44
Images in Your Webs	p. 47
Graphic Formats	p. 48
Web Color Palette	p. 50
Working with Images in FrontPage	p. 50
Table Layout	p. 58
Design Layouts Using Tables	p. 58
Table Properties	p. 66
Advanced Frame Layout and Development	p. 74
To Use or Not to Use Frames	p. 74
Reserved Frame Names	p. 75
Working with Frames in FrontPage 2000	p. 76
Creating Floating Frames in Your Website	p. 82
Advanced Tricks Within Frames	p. 87
Frames Tabs in the Editor	p. 89
Making Sure Search Engines Find Your Information	p. 89
Summary	p. 90
FrontPage Themes and Styles	p. 91
Cascading Style Sheets	p. 92
Creating a Style Sheet	p. 93
Linking Style Sheets to Your Pages	p. 97
Adjusting Internal Styles in Your Web	p. 98
Classes, Inheritance, and Global Classes	p. 101
"Cascading" Style Sheets and Precedence	p. 102
Links and Pseudoclasses	p. 103
Incorporating Shared Borders	p. 104
Inserting Shared Borders	p. 105
Editing Shared Border Information	p. 106
Using the Navigation View	p. 106
Limiting Shared Borders to Certain Pages	p. 110
Behind Shared Borders	p. 110
Incorporating FrontPage Themes into Your Designs	p. 111
Developing Webs Through the Use of Themes	p. 112
Customizing FrontPage Themes	p. 115
Creating Custom Themes in FrontPage 2000	p. 121
Summary	p. 126
Creating Active Content with Dynamic HTML	p. 127
Concepts of Dynamic HTML	p. 128
Scripting for DHTML	p. 129
DHTML and Style Sheets	p. 129
Dynamic HTML and the Browser Wars	p. 130
Microsoft and the Dynamic HTML Document Object Model	p. 130
Netscape and Dynamic HTML	p. 133
Integrating Dynamic HTML into Your Web with FrontPage	p. 135
DHTML Effects Toolbar	p. 136
Working with Dynamic Images	p. 137
Page Transitions in FrontPage	p. 145
Bringing Text to Life in Your Web	p. 147
Advanced Dynamic HTML Integration	p. 157
Integrating Cross-Browser-Compatible DHTML	p. 158
Pixel-Level Layout Control	p. 162
Summary	p. 168
Developing with FrontPage Active Elements	p. 169
Incorporating Active Images	p. 170
Inserting Images into Form Fields	p. 170
Using the Picture Toolbar	p. 171
Creating Hover Buttons	p. 179
Incorporating Scheduled Pictures	p. 185
Using the Page Inclusion Tools	p. 189
Include a Page in Your Document	p. 190
Include a Page at a Scheduled Time	p. 191
Integrating Video into Your Web	p. 193
Adding Page Counters	p. 195
Resetting Your Hit Counter	p. 197
Hit Counter Code Explained	p. 198
Using Marquee Text in Your Site	p. 199
Adding Search Capabilities	p. 202
Creating a Simple Search Form	p. 202
Creating Your Own Search Interface	p. 203
Search Code Explained	p. 207
Using the Advertising Management Tools	p. 209
Creating a Table of Contents for Your Web Site	p. 212
Summary	p. 215
Creating Discussion Groups	p. 217
Using Discussion Groups to Collaborate on Projects	p. 218
Making Your Intranet an Interactive Tool	p. 219
Building Communities Through Discussion	p. 220
Discussion Web Wizard	p. 221
Creating a New Web	p. 221
Incorporating Your Discussion Group into Your Current Web	p. 221
Using the Discussion Web Wizard	p. 222
Inside Discussion Groups	p. 228
HTML Pages	p. 228
Forms	p. 228
Discussion Group Code Explained	p. 233
Administering Discussion Groups	p. 235
Modifying and Removing Discussion Group Articles	p. 237
User Registration Forms	p. 238
Summary	p. 244
Advanced Form Integration	p. 245
Anatomy of a Form	p. 246
What Does the Form Tag Do?	p. 246
Creating Forms in FrontPage	p. 248
Form Menu Options	p. 248
FrontPage Form Wizard	p. 249
Customizing Your FrontPage Forms	p. 259
Customizing Your Buttons	p. 259
Using Scripts with Forms	p. 264
Setting the Tab Order in Your Form	p. 271
Adding Labels to Form Fields	p. 273
Working with the Confirmation Page	p. 273
Data Collection	p. 276
Saving Forms to Files	p. 277
Sending Form Results via an E-mail Message	p. 281
Form Validation	p. 286
Validating Forms in FrontPage	p. 287
Summary	p. 294
Creating Dynamically Driven Websites
Integrating Office Elements into Your Webs	p. 297
Developing with Word	p. 298
Saving Word Files to HTML	p. 299
Word's Web Options	p. 301
Word's Web Tools Toolbar	p. 305
Integration of PowerPoint Presentations	p. 308
Saving PowerPoint Presentations to HTML	p. 308
PowerPoint's Web Options	p. 309
Publishing a PowerPoint Presentation as a Web	p. 314
Creating Excel Spreadsheets for Distribution	p. 317
Saving Excel Spreadsheets for Use on the Web	p. 317
Excel's Web Options	p. 319
Publishing Excel Spreadsheets	p. 323
Using the Office 2000 Spreadsheet Web Component	p. 325
Inserting a New Spreadsheet	p. 326
Spreadsheet Toolbar	p. 328
Spreadsheet Property Toolbox	p. 329
ActiveX Control Properties	p. 336
Exporting Spreadsheets to Excel	p. 340
Importing Data into Your Spreadsheet	p. 341
Outlook and the Web	p. 342
Saving Your Calendar as a Web Page	p. 343
Summary	p. 345
Preparing for Database-Driven Webs	p. 347
Working with Databases	p. 348
Client-Server Interaction	p. 349
Tiered Architectures in Data-Driven Application Design	p. 350
SQL	p. 352
ODBC	p. 357
Preparing to Use Active Server Pages	p. 358
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)	p. 359
Using Microsoft Access as Your Database	p. 360
Setting up FrontPage to Work with Your Database	p. 361
Importing an Access Database Directly into a FrontPage Web	p. 369
About Data Access Pages	p. 372
Summary	p. 374
Adding Database Access to Your Webs	p. 375
Developing with an Access Database	p. 376
Integrating Data Access Pages into Your Web	p. 376
Working with Data Access Pages	p. 377
Working with the Database Results	p. 383
Using the Database Results Wizard	p. 383
Setting the Advanced Options in the Database Results Wizard	p. 396
Inputting New Column Fields into Your Results Database	p. 404
Sending Form Results to a Database	p. 411
Creating a Database in the Form Options	p. 423
Connecting to an Existing Database in the Form Options	p. 424
Summary	p. 425
Inside Active Server Pages	p. 427
About Active Server Pages	p. 428
ASP Objects	p. 430
ADO Object Model	p. 438
Active Server Pages and the Server	p. 441
Developing Active Server Pages	p. 444
Form Data Collection	p. 444
Incorporating Cookies into Your Pages	p. 457
Summary	p. 461
Integrating Active Server Pages into Your Webs	p. 463
ASP and Your Database	p. 464
Using ADO	p. 464
Active Server Components	p. 475
Advertisement Rotator	p. 475
Browser Capabilities	p. 478
Content Linking	p. 482
TextStream Component	p. 483
Summary	p. 486
Beyond HTML
Extended Technology for Your Webs	p. 491
ActiveX and Java	p. 492
About ActiveX	p. 492
Finding ActiveX Controls	p. 493
About Java	p. 494
ActiveX Versus Java	p. 495
Integrating ActiveX Technology into Your Webs	p. 496
Adding ActiveX Controls in FrontPage	p. 497
Configuring ActiveX Controls	p. 497
Customizing the Insert Dialog Box	p. 501
Behind the Scenes	p. 503
Integrating Java Applets into Your Webs	p. 505
Adding Java Applets in FrontPage	p. 505
Java Applets Included with FrontPage	p. 507
Behind the Scenes	p. 509
Incorporating Plug-ins into Your Webs	p. 510
Using FrontPage to Incorporate Your Plug-ins	p. 511
Mixing Things Up to Create Cross-Browser Compatibility	p. 515
Summary	p. 517
Introducing the Microsoft Script Editor	p. 519
Origins of the Script Editor	p. 520
Working with the Script Editor	p. 521
Script Editor Windows	p. 522
Script Editor Menus	p. 524
Adding Controls to the Toolbox	p. 531
Setting the Script Editor Options	p. 533
Working with the Source Editor	p. 538
Incorporating Breakpoints	p. 541
Inserting ActiveX Controls into Your Pages	p. 546
Outline Views	p. 552
Summary	p. 554
Working with Scripting Technologies	p. 555
JavaScript Versus VBScript	p. 556
HTML Object Model	p. 557
Developing with VBScript	p. 558
Displaying Date and Time Information	p. 558
Using VBScript with Forms	p. 562
Developing with JavaScript	p. 564
JavaScript Versus JScript	p. 565
Using JavaScript with Forms	p. 565
Dynamic Text with JavaScript	p. 573
Creating Image Rollover Effects with JavaScript	p. 576
Summary	p. 582
FrontPage 2000's VBA Scripting Engine	p. 583
The Visual Basic Editor	p. 584
Editor Windows	p. 585
Toolbars	p. 596
Visual Basic Editor Options	p. 603
Setting Project Properties	p. 609
Importing Files into the Editor	p. 611
Exporting Files from the Editor	p. 611
Setting Breakpoints for Debugging	p. 612
FrontPage Macros	p. 612
Customizing Toolbars and Assigning Macros	p. 614
The FrontPage Object Model	p. 618
Application	p. 618
WebWindow	p. 619
Web	p. 619
PageWindow	p. 619
ActiveDocument	p. 620
CommandBars	p. 620
Themes	p. 620
Controlling FrontPage with VBA	p. 621
Working with Command Bars and Controls	p. 623
Opening the Current Page in a Full-Screen Window	p. 629
Trapping FrontPage Application Events	p. 633
Using Add-Ins	p. 635
UserForms and the FrontPageEditor Object Model	p. 635
The "Hello World" UserForm	p. 637
Running a UserForm from the FrontPage User Interface	p. 638
Using the FrontPageEditor Object Model to Modify HTML	p. 639
Summary	p. 648
The Personal Web Server and FrontPage Server Extensions	p. 649
Folders Versus Webs	p. 650
Using the Personal Web Server	p. 651
Working in the Main Window	p. 653
Advanced Features of the Web Server	p. 654
FrontPage Server Extensions: What Are They, and Why Should You Use Them?	p. 658
Installing the FrontPage Server Extensions	p. 659
Introduction to the Server Administrator	p. 660
Launching the Server Administrator	p. 661
Working with Webs	p. 661
Adding Server Extensions to a Web	p. 663
Creating a Subweb	p. 663
Converting a Subweb to a Folder	p. 664
Setting Up Authoring Capabilities	p. 665
Adding a New Administrator	p. 668
Removing Extensions from a Web	p. 669
Adjusting Performance Attributes	p. 670
Setting Default Script Languages	p. 671
Enabling E-mail from Your Webs	p. 672
Summary	p. 673
Index	p. 675
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