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We had a customer recently, who needed to access an Access database from both a classic ASP page and from another Access database. To prevent the database from being locked by IIS, the customer wanted to know if they could move the database out of the Read More...
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John Jansen, one of the FrontPage testers, sent me these three different ways to password protect pages in FrontPage. Using a FrontPage site template and ASP Using Code Snippets Using ASP.NET To password protect pages using a FrontPage site template and Read More...
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Dave Berry wrote an excellent article about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on MSDN ( Using Cascading Style Sheets on Your Web Site ), so I won't bore you with the details of CSS. However, one reader commented that the article didn't cover how to create Read More...
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If you've worked with Code view in FrontPage 2003, you've undoubtedly come to appreciate IntelliSense. But what if you need an element or attribute that isn't included in any of the default HTML schemas? For example, W3C accessibility guidelines include Read More...
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If you've ever inserted a date or time using Date and Time on the Insert menu in FrontPage, you may have wondered how you can change the date and/or time format. Well, you're not alone. We recently had the following comment from a customer asking for Read More...
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Whether you're creating your first Web site or you're a seasoned Web designer/developer, choosing colors is always problematic. You want to make sure that the color gives the right impression. As Katherine Nolan points out in her article Color it effective: Read More...
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After I learned JavaScript, the first thing I did was create an image mouseover. The one I created was relatively simple, just a few lines of code. I've since seen many more complex examples that do basically the same thing as my simple little script. Read More...
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In FrontPage, you can create a scrolling marquee by clicking Insert and Web Component . (You can find it listed under Dynamic Effects.) However, sometimes it's greyed out. This is because FrontPage inserts a MARQUEE element, which is only viewable from Read More...
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I've had several people ask me lately and have seen questions on Office Online about how to create an RSS feed. For those of you who don't know what an RSS feed is, it's something that people can use to keep up to date with the content on a site. Generally, Read More...
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If you use lists in Web sites based on Windows SharePoint Services, this tip is for you. John Jansen, a tester on the FrontPage test team created a tip for how to display a different image depending on the value of a list item. See how on the FrontPoint Read More...
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If you've spent any time browsing the Internet with Internet Explorer, you've seen the little toolbar that IE displays over larger images. Today's tip, contributed by Larry Anderson, explains how to hide this little bugger. In Internet Explorer 6.0, when Read More...
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I know, it's been awhile since I've posted a tip. A couple weeks ago I was in SQL Server training, and last week was taken up with catching up on everything I postponed during training. Now I'm back and my tip for today is creating mouseover effects. Read More...
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We had an article on MSDN for creating a drop-down menu, but after repeated attempts, I, like many of our customers, couldn't make the code work, so we're in the process of removing it. We will (mostly likely) eventually replace it. In the meantime, though, Read More...
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If you've worked around Web sites for any length of time, you've no doubt been told repeatedly to test your pages in several browsers. If you're new to this stuff, it may sound ridiculous. After all, HTML is just HTML, right? Well, yes ... and no. HTML Read More...
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Today, someone asked me about how to add a video clip to a Web and show the controls. This is relatively easy, so I thought I would share with all of you how to do this. You can do this by using the Windows Media Player. To do this, switch to Code (or Read More...
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