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Preparing FrontPage Web Sites for Google

Here are a few easy things you can do to increase your chances of doing well in a Google search.

	Make sure titles in FrontPage are descriptions of pages and not just "Home". "About" or "Contact."  Include your company name in as many titles as possible and include keywords in the title that describe what your page is about.  You can change your titles and URL from the Folders view of any directory by right-clicking the title and selecting "rename."
	Use page names that reflect what the page is about.  For example, instead of "product.htm" be more specific and name the page “widget2837.htm”.  This can also be done through the Folders view and FrontPage will re-write the links to the new page names
	Submit your Web site to Google at: http://www.google.com/addurl.html.

This information was excerpted from an article on www.frontpageworld.com.
 

Scrolling Marquee in FrontPage

If something needs immediate attention, a scrolling marquee can stand out, grabbing your viewers' attention.

	Open your web in FrontPage and place your cursor where you'd like a scrolling marquee. Select Insert from the pull-down menu and choose Web Component.
	Choose Marquee and click on the Finish button.
	In the Marquee Properties dialog box, type in the text that you wish to scroll, and make any desired changes to the setting.  When satisfied, click ok.

The marquee will be displayed as a static text box but will scroll when published or viewed in preview mode. To delete the marquee, click to select and press the delete key

Create Thumbnails in FrontPage

	In Page View click Design
	Click the graphic to select
	Press Ctrl + T (Or click Auto Thumbnail on the pictures toolbar)

Microsoft FrontPage creates a thumbnail graphic and a hyperlink to the original full-size graphic.
 

Using AutoFormat in FrontPage 2002

To use Table AutoFormat, open a new page and create a new table or open a page with an existing table in FrontPage 2002, and do the following:

	Click on the table you want to format.
	On the Table menu, select Table AutoFormat.
	Under Formats, select from the list of table format designs to create the look you want.
	Click OK.

Creating a Photo Gallery in FrontPage 2002

With Microsoft FrontPage® 2002, you can quickly and easily create a Photo Gallery to display personal or business photos or images. When visitors view your photo gallery in a browser window, they can choose pictures to look at by clicking small, thumbnail images to display the full-size image that thumbnail represents. You can add images to a Photo Gallery using any one of four different customizable layouts. The four different types of photo gallery layout available in FrontPage 2002 are:

	Horizontal layout: your photos appear in a simple album-style layout.
	Montage layout: your photos appear in a collage format.
	Slide Show layout: creates a scrollable layout of your images with a full-size image appearing below the row when its thumbnail is selected.
	Vertical layout: images display in album-style layout, with users viewing them top to bottom.

To create a photo gallery, open a new or existing page in FrontPage 2002 and do the following in Page view:

	On the Insert menu, click Picture and then select New Photo Gallery.
	Click the Add button to add pictures to the gallery, then click Pictures from Files.
	Select images from a folder and click OK, and add captions and descriptions to each image.
	Click the Layout tab to determine the layout for the photo gallery.

Note: In the Photo Gallery Properties dialog box you can also reorder, change thumbnail size, and switch layouts of your images.  This tip comes to us from www.microsoft.com.
 

Using Clipboard to Paste Information into FrontPage

The Microsoft Office Clipboard helps you copy or cut multiple pieces of content from Microsoft® Office XP applications and quickly paste them into web pages you're creating with Microsoft FrontPage® 2002. You can see representations of the content on the clipboard in the Clipboard Task Pane. You also have the option either pasting in just the text or preserving the source or destination formatting.

To use Office Clipboard to paste from other Office applications into FrontPage 2002, do the following:

1. From within any Office application (like Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel) copy at least two pieces of information, one right after the other without pasting it anywhere.
2. Switch to Page view in FrontPage.
3. Click in a new or existing Web page where you want to paste an item.
4. On the Edit menu, click Office Clipboard. The Clipboard task pane will now be visible on right hand portion of your screen. Inside it will be the 2 items that you copied.
5. To paste one of the items in the Clipboard, click it. The item is now inserted into your Web page.
6. To delete one of the items in the Clipboard, place the cursor over the item, click the down arrow that appears on the right and then click Delete.

After pasting from the Clipboard Task Pane, a tiny Paste Options Smart Tag will appear next to the pasted item. You can click the Paste Options Smart Tag and choose one of the text formatting options. This tip comes to us from www.microsoft.com.
 

Making FrontPage Toolbars Easier to Use

Microsoft FrontPage® 2002 includes features that make it accessible to a wider range of users, including those with poor vision or other disabilities. One feature increases the size of toolbar buttons to make them easier to use.

To increase the size of toolbar buttons:

1. Open FrontPage 2002

2. On the Tools menu, click Customize

3. Click the Options tab

4. Select the Large icons check box

5. Click the Close button

Tip: Changing the Options to Large icons in FrontPage 2002 will also update the way the toolbars appear in all other Office XP programs installed on your computer.