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Some Simple Operations with FrontPage 2000
Not using the Web Site Options
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Starting FrontPage 2000 (Sample Result: howdy.htm
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File/New/Page...Normal Page (General tab) ...
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Save As ...
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Note: Right-click in Page window ... Properties...
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A Simple List for Table of Contents (TOC) File with Links (Sample
result: toc.htm
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Note: the "Normal", "HTML", "Preview" tabs
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Note: Right-click in Page window ... Properties...
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Frames (Sample Result: frametest1.htm
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File/New/Page... Contents (Frames Pages tab)
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Set Initial Page ... (toc.htm
on left and howdy.htm
on right)
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Note: the "Normal", "No Frames", "HTML", "Frames
Page HTML" ,"Preview" tabs
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Note: Right-click in Page window ... Properties...
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Forms (Sample Result: formtest1.htm
, using Post.pl )
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File/New/Page...Normal Page (General tab) ...
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Insert/Form/Form (Submit and Reset Buttons)
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Note: Right-click on selected form element and choose Form Field
Properties...
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Insert/Form/One-Line Text Box
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Insert/Form/Radio Button (One-at-a-time)
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Insert/Form/Checkbox
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Insert/Form/Drop-Down Menu
( Note: Right-click on selected form element and choose Form
Field Properties...)
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Note: (Via HTML tab) Delete the line below the <FORM ...>
tag
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" U-File="fpweb:///_private/form_results.txt"
S-Format="TEXT/CSV" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" -->
AND
Specify the ACTION= ... Attribute (e.g. http://www.txstate.edu/htbin~rs01/post.pl)
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Image Maps (Sample Result: imagemap1.htm
, with usstates.gif coming from U.
S. Map )
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File/New/Page...Normal Page (General tab) ...
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Insert/Picture/From File...
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View/Toolbars/Picture
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Select Picture and Use "Hotspots" (rectangular, circular, polygonal) ...
Using the Web Site Options
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Importing a Web Site
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Consider the directory Index
of /~rs01/2388/frontpage (subdirectory) to be a web site
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File/Import...
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In the field for "Specify the location of the new web:"
Specify the "destination" (for importing) of this web site, e.g. a:\tempweb
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With the next dialog box, in the field for "Location:"
Specify the web address, e.g. http://www.cs.swt.edu/~rs01/2388/frontpage
and make sure to click the radio button associated with "From a World
Wide Web site"
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Click on Next ... Next ... Finish
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Note the result via Windows Explorer or My Computer
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Publishing the Web Site
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For Demonstration Purposes, delete the files, etc on the web server
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File/Publish Web...
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In the field for "Specify the location to publish your web to:"
Specify the directory via ftp, e.g. ftp://ftp.cs.swt.edu/public_html/2388/frontpage
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Click on Publish
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Enter your username and password and Click on OK.
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Compare results via Windows Explorer and a Browser. NOTE:
The index.htm files and delete them after viewing the work in a browser.
DHTML (Dynamic HTML)
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Form Validation (Apparently still requires FrontPage server extensions)
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Must (Cannot use Tools/Web Settings... otherwise) open as a "web."
Hence File/New...Web
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E.g. specify a:\scripting in the "Specify the location of the new web:"
field
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Click on "One Page Web" and then on OK.
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Construct a form with two one-line text boxes
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Before setting the validation criteria check the scripting
language as follows:
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Tools/Web Settings... Advanced (tab) and Javascript in the "Client:" filed
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Right-click first text field and choose Form Field Validation... (Alternative:Form
Field Properties... Validate...)
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Select Text from the drop-down list of the "Data type:" field
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Click Data Length checkbox (makes Display Name: field available)
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Type "Text Field" in the Display Name: field (This will be the name for
the field that will be used in the validation error messages)
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Click OK
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Right-click second field and choose Form Field Validation...
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Select Integer from the drop-down list of the "Data type:" field
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Type "Numeric Field" in the Display name field
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Under Data Value, click "Field must be:" checkbox with "greater than or
equal to" and 5 in the "Value:" field
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Click "and must be:" checkbox with "less than or equal to" and 10 in the
"Value:" field
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Click OK and Save page
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Publishing the "web" proceeds as follows:
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File/Publish Web ...
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Specify ftp://raistlin.cs.swt.edu/scripting in the "Specify your location
to publish your web to:"
(scripting will be the directory below the root for web-accessible
files)
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Click on Publish
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Click on "Continue" if warning about FrontPage Extensions is given
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Note: Editing out the FrontPage "WebBot" code does not seem to give working
JavaScript
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Some Event Handling
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Animation Effects (Source: Matthews, M.S. & Poulsen E.B. The
Complete Reference: FrontPage 2000, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Berkeley,
CA, 1999; Ch. 11)
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Open DHTMLexample.htm using
and 
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Finished Product: DHTMLdone.htm
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Select the "Drop in Title" line
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Format/Dynamic HTML Effects (yields the DHTML Effects Toolbar)
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Select "Page load" for "On:" field
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Select "Drop in by word" for "Apply:" field
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Click on "Preview" tab for a look at the result
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Select the first paragraph
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Select "Page load" for "On:" field
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Select "Fly in" and "From right" for "On:" fields
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Click on "Preview" tab for a look at the result
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Select picture of door (door.gif)
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Select "Mouse over" for the "On:" field
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Select "Swap picture" and "Choose picture..." (finding picture) for "Apply:"
field
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Click on "Preview" tab for a look at the result
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Save DHMTLdone.htm
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Files to be in appropriate web directory
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DHTMLdone.htm
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animate.js
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door.gif
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opendoor.gif
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Note: To Avoid file specification problems in the HTML generated
do all of your work in the same directory.
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A comparable JavaScript "Rollover" Example (Source: Negrino, T. & Smith,
D. JavaScript for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition, Peachpit Press,
Berkeley, CA, 1999, pp. 33ff) using
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