Microsoft FrontPage #4



*1.   NAME CALLING

March 1st, 1999

Need to change the name of a page in your web? If you're using 
the automatic navigation feature in FrontPage (which smartly 
displays your page titles as banners on your pages), don't 
change the name in the Explorer window. If you want your 
banners to reflect your name change, you need to make the 
change from the Navigation view. Strange and frustrating, 
but true. 

- 1. From Explorer, click the Navigation icon in the Views bar
     (which runs down the left side of the screen). In the
     Navigation view that opens, you see two frames--Contents
     and Navigation. 
- 2. In the Navigation frame, click the page you want to
     rename, wait a second until you see the name highlighted,
     and then click again. (If you click twice too quickly,
     the page launches in the editor.) 
- 3. Type in a new name. 
- 4. Press Enter. 

All done. Keep this trick in mind for future name changes; 
it's one way to keep your site consistent. 
    

*2.   FIVE TOP EDITOR SHORTCUTS, NUMBER 5

March 2nd, 1999

Keyboard shortcuts save time and hair-pulling when you use the 
FrontPage Editor. Why root around in menus when you can work 
more quickly from the keyboard? In the next five tips, we show 
you our five favorites. Here's Number 5: 

To jump back and forth between the WYSIWYG, Normal, and HTML 
views, click Ctrl + PgUp. 
    

*3.   IVE TOP EDITOR SHORTCUTS, NUMBER 4

March 3rd, 1999

Throughout this week, we show you some of our favorite keyboard 
shortcuts. These shortcuts are a cut above the ol' copy (Ctrl + 
C) and paste (Ctrl + V) commands that work with just about any 
program. They're specific to FrontPage, and they let you work 
more quickly and easily. 

Working on more than one page at a time? You can jump from 
page to page without moving your hands from the keyboard. Which 
brings us to hot tip Number 4: 

Press Ctrl + Tab to jump from page to page; press Ctrl + Shift 
+ Tab to go back to the previous page. 
    

*4.   FIVE TOP EDITOR SHORTCUTS, NUMBER 3

March 4th, 1999

Like the baseball fan who knows the Yankees won the '63 World 
Series, a real FrontPage user knows all the best shortcuts. 
Today's shortcut actually requires a little work with the 
mouse, but it's still a timesaver. How about a big Dummies 
Daily welcome for hot tip Number 3: 

In Preview mode, you can just click a link to follow it. But in 
Normal (or editing) mode, press Ctrl + click to follow 
a hyperlink. 

You there! Firing off an e-mail to tell us the Dodgers won the 
'63 Series? Don't hit Send. We were just making sure you were 
paying attention. 
 

*5.   FIVE TOP EDITOR SHORTCUTS, NUMBER 2

March 5th, 1999

You're editing text when you decide to add a little spice to 
your font face. Don't reach for the mouse to bring up the Font 
menu (Format + Font). Here's hot tip Number 2, one of our 
favorite and most often used shortcuts: 

- 1. Highlight the text you want to change. 
- 2. Right-click the text and then choose Font Properties.
     The Font dialog box opens. 
- 3. Choose your selections from the Font, Font Style, and Size
     boxes. The sample pane shows you a preview of what your
     text will look like. 
- 4. Click OK to make the changes. 
 

*6.   FIVE TOP EDITOR SHORTCUTS, NUMBER 1

March 8th, 1999

This week we've been talking about our favorite FrontPage 
shortcuts. Not just the undo (Ctrl + Z) and save (Ctrl + S) 
commands that work with any old application, but specific 
FrontPage tips that make your work go faster and easier. Now 
for our absolute, flat-out most favorite FrontPage shortcut of 
all time. Drum roll please for hot tip Numero Uno, which lets 
you hyperlink on the fly: 

- 1. Highlight the text or image you want to hyperlink. 
- 2. Click Ctrl + K to create a hyperlink. 
- 3. Type the Web address in the URL text box. 
- 4. Click Close. 

Voila! A tip you'll use countless times while doing time 
with FrontPage. 
    

*7.   I KNOW IT'S HERE SOMEWHERE

March 9th, 1999

Have you longed to add a search engine to your Web site? We've 
got you covered. FrontPage's search engine component is a 
prewritten application that you can link to your site without 
doing any coding. Just make sure your Web hosting service 
provides the FrontPage Server Extensions; otherwise, these tips 
won't work. 

Tomorrow we talk about adding a search form to an existing 
page. But to get started, we show you how to add a brand-new 
search page to your web: 

- 1. From the FrontPage Editor, choose File + New. 
- 2. In the New dialog box, click Search Page. The Preview pane
     shows you what the page will look like. 
- 3. Click OK. 
- 4. The page displays a search form and some tips for visitors
     on how to use it. To save your page, press Ctrl + S. The
     Save As dialog box opens. 
- 5. Type the name of the page in the URL text box. 
- 6. Type the page title in the Title text box. 
- 7. Click OK to close the Save As dialog box. 

You're ready to roll. 
 

*8.   SEARCH ME

March 10th, 1999

This week, we're looking at search forms and how you can add 
them to your web. Here's how to insert a search form into an 
existing page from your web: 

- 1. In FrontPage Explorer, double-click the page you want to
     add the search box to. The page launches in the Editor. 
- 2. Choose Insert + Active Elements + Search Form. The Search
     Form Properties dialog box appears. 
- 3. Click OK. 
- 4. Save your page (click Ctrl + S). 

All set. Your page now offers a text box where users can type 
keywords they're looking for. When they hit the Submit button, 
the results appear at the bottom of your page. 
 

*9.   SEARCH WITH SOME ZING

March 11th, 1999

One of the simplest--and most useful--components you can add to 
your Web site is a search engine. Of course, you don't have to 
stick with the default settings that appear. Over the next few 
days, we show you how to customize your search engine. 

By default, the label "Search for:" appears before your text 
box. To change the label and spice it up a bit, follow 
these steps: 

- 1. Place your mouse pointer over the search form. A little
     robot icon appears. 
- 2. Right-click the form and choose FrontPage Component
     Properties from the menu. The Search Form Properties
     dialog box opens. 
- 3. In the Label For Input text box, the current text is
     already highlighted. To replace the text with whatever
     you want (for example, "Search and Destroy"), just
     start typing. 
- 4. Click OK to close the Search Form Properties dialog box. 
- 5. Save your page by pressing Ctrl + S. 

Using this same procedure, you can change the labels of the 
Start Search button and the Reset button. These buttons are 
also found in the Search Form Properties dialog box. 
    

*0.   NOW SEARCH WITH SOME ZANG

March 12th, 1999

One of the simplest--and most useful--components you can add 
to your Web site is a search form. Of course, you don't have to 
stick with the default settings for a search form. Yesterday, 
we explained how you can change the labels of the search form 
buttons. Today, we show you how to change the way the 
results appear. 

- 1. Place your mouse pointer over the search form. A little
     robot icon appears. 
- 2. Right-click the form and choose FrontPage Component
     Properties from the menu. The Search Form Properties
     dialog box launches. 
- 3. Click the Search Results tab. Under Search Results are
     three checkboxes: Score, File Date, and File Size. 
- 4. Indicate what you want to appear in the search results: 
     - Click the Score checkbox, to display a relevancy score
       (an estimation of how likely the hit returned is what
       you're looking for). 
     - To display the date a found file was last modified,
       click File Date. 
     - To show the size of found files, click File Size
       (in K bytes).  
- 5. Click OK to close the Search Form Properties dialog box. 
- 6. Save your page by pressing Ctrl + S.
