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Compose a Theme
You can apply any of Frontpage 98's design themes to your entire site in a matter of seconds. Select Themes from the Views bar on the left-hand side of the screen, select Use Selected Theme and choose a theme. To apply a different theme to an individual page, open that page in Front-page Editor and select Format/Theme.
Customise Your Nav Bars
FrontPage automatically generates universal navigation buttons for your site and labels them according to the corresponding page's title-with the exception of the Home, Up, Back and Next buttons. You can customize these labels by choosing the Tools/Web Settings option and selecting the Navigation tab. Replace the default settings with your custom names.
Little Orphan Web Page
You can easily find orphaned pages (without any hyperlinks pointing to them) on your site with Frontpage 98. Choose View/All Files, then click on the column header labeled Orphan. This will sort all your site's orphaned files (HTML, graphics and so on) into one group. Double-clicking on any entry will launch the file in your browser so you can quickly determine whether you still need it.
Don't Repeat Yourself
Duplicate files can make managing a site extremely difficult. Use FrontPage's View/All Files option to locate all duplicate files. Click on the Name column and Front-page will sort all your site's files by name (regardless of any folder they may reside in) so you can easily locate duplicates across your entire site.
Cascading Style Sheets, Part 1
Frontpage 98 supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). To add a CSS to your page, select your target text and choose Format/Font/Special Styles. In the Font dialog box, select the Style button and specify the properties you want to incorporate.
Cascading Style Sheets, Part II
You can also customise and save your own CSS templates. Select Format/Stylesheet and the style-sheet dialog will open. From here, you can add HTML directly, or you can click on the Style button and specify style characteristics. When you return to the style-sheet dialog. Frontpage will insert the corresponding code for you.
View All Tasks
When you mark a task complete in the Tasks view, the task is not deleted, but it is removed from the active view. You can view completed and uncompleted tasks by enabling Task History from the View menu.
Java Jolt
Frontpage lets you add Java applet hover buttons to your site. These buttons animate, change color or trigger a sound when a cursor hovers over them. From the Insert menu, select Active Elements/Hover Button. In the dialog box that appears, you can customize the default text and actions, and specify your own images or sounds using the Custom button.
Send Form Results to E-Mail
If you want to automatically forward form results to an e-mail address, right-click on the form field after creating your form. Select Form Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the Send To: option and enter the e-mail address to which you want the results sent.
Thumbnails Express
Frontpage makes it easy to create thumbnail versions of images. First, insert the original image into a page, then select the image and choose Auto Thumbnail from the Tools menu. A smaller version will appear on the page. Frontpage even automatically hyperlinks the thumbnail to the original, full-sized image. To modify thumbnail properties, open Tools/Options and select the Auto Thumbnail tab.
Use Image Bullets
Standard HTML bullets can be a little boring, so use custom images in place of plain bullets. First, create a standard bulleted list, then open Format/Bullets and Numbering and select the Image Bullets tab. Browse the list until you find a suitable image. In addition, if you've selected a theme for your site. Frontpage will automatically insert image bullets consistent with the theme.
Options Galore
You may occasionally find that choosing a menu item doesn't always yield the same results as clicking on the associated toolbar button. For example, clicking the New button on the toolbar creates a blank page, but choosing File/New brings up the New Page dialog box, from which you can select different page templates. Typically, when the actions differ, the toolbar button is more likely to contain only one option, while a menu item may reveal more.
