June 2004 - Posts

• Introduction to Web Technologies

  We just posted a new article for beginning Web developers called Introduction to Web Technologies for FrontPage Users . This article is designed specifically for FrontPage users who are looking to make a leap from WYSIWYG designing of Web pages to programming Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:18 PM by lisawoll | (Comments Off) Filed under: Articles

• Creating borderless input fields

  Here's a tip from Rich Klein about how to make borderless input fields. A good way to display data and allow input is to create an input field in a table cell that is sized to the cell and is borderless. You can then "underline" the field by setting the Read More... Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 9:07 AM by lisawoll | 3 Comments Filed under: Tips and Tricks

• Retain a visitor-specified value in a drop down list

  Here's a tip that Jim Buyens * , a FrontPage MVP, contributed some time ago for retaining a visitor-specified value in a drop down list. If you're working with databases in FrontPage, the Database Results Wizard is probably what you use most, if not every, Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:26 PM by lisawoll | 23 Comments Filed under: Tips and Tricks, JavaScript

• Working with ASP.NET Controls in FrontPage

  I wanted to post a quick note about an add-in that one of the FrontPage testers, Harris Chan, developed for working with ASP.NET controls in FrontPage. To be honest, I just installed it, so I haven't had a lot of time to work with it. If you're interested Read More... Posted Friday, June 18, 2004 4:45 PM by lisawoll | 3 Comments Filed under: FP and VS, ASP.NET

• Dates, dates, and more dates...

  We get a lot of requests from people who want to put the current date on their Web pages, so I thought I would start my first official FrontPage tip with code to help accomplish this. There are a couple ways that you can get the current date onto your Read More... Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 5:40 PM by lisawoll | 15 Comments Filed under: Tips and Tricks, JavaScript

• New Article: Sending Custom EMail

  Hey, ho... We just published a new article, Sending Custom Email . It's actually a reprint of an article on the companion CD of Jim Buyens' book, "FrontPage 2003 Inside Out" published by MS Press. This article, the four reprint from Jim's book, shows Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2004 5:07 PM by lisawoll | (Comments Off) Filed under: Articles

• Tell Us More ... comments from Tech Ed

  Eray sent me his comments for the final days of Tech Ed, so here they are. He has a great tip buried in here for moving WSS pages from a test environment to a live environment. The Export/Import feature in FrontPage is great for this. He explains below Read More... Posted Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:36 PM by lisawoll | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• Stuff ...

  Moving, et al My date with the moving van went well ... sort of. Long story, short: I bought my first house and moved from an almost 1500 square foot condo to a less than 1000 square foot house. I comfort myself with the knowledge that a house is a better Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:10 PM by lisawoll | 5 Comments Filed under: Articles, General