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ASP Programming
Mailing Form Data

How can I mail form results with more flexibility than FrontPage provides?

06-Feb-2004
Persisting the Selection in a Drop-Down Box How can I retain the selection in a drop-down box from one form submission to another? 26-Jul-2004
Saving Form Data in a Database

How can I save form results to a database when the FrontPage Save Results component doesn't provide all the features I need?

13-Feb-2004
Updating a Database and Sending Mail from One Form How can submitting a single HTML form update a database and send e-mail? 20-May-2004
Using FrontPage and Visual Studio .NET Together

How can I use FrontPage 2003 for visual design and Visual Studio .NET for programming on the same Web site?

12-May-2004

Cascading Style Sheets
Controlling Fonts for an Entire Web Site How can Cascading Style Sheets apply uniform fonts to several Web pages? 07-Dec-2003
Getting Rid of Underlining Beneath Hyperlinks How can I get rid of the underlining that appears below text hyperlinks? 11-Sep-2003
Specifying Visual Effects for Hyperlinks

How can I write CSS rules that apply to the visual states of a hyperlink (normal, active, link, and visited)?

11-Sep-2003

Dynamic Effects
Creating DHTML Menus in FrontPage 2003

Step-by-step instructions for creating simple DHTML (drop-down) menus in FrontPage 2003.

11-May-2004
Creating Rollover Images How can I create buttons and other pictures that change appearance when the mouse passes over them? 04-Jan-2004

FrontPage Publishing
Connection Times Out During Publish While publishing your Web site to a remote server, you get the message "Connection time out." 14-Feb-2004
FrontPage Publish Command Fails

The Publish Web command times out or produces incomplete results.

12-Jul-2004
Resolving Files in Conflict What does it mean when, during a Publishing operation, FrontPage reports that files are In Conflict? What should I do about it? 29-Dec-2003

FrontPage Techniques
Adding Web Site Templates How can I add a new Web site template to my copy of FrontPage? 14-Jan-2004
Customizing Form Confirmation Pages How can I customize the appearance of the results page that appears when FrontPage saves form results? 22-Jan-2004
Displaying Popup Windows How can I make the browser open a new window and display the content I want? 16-Apr-2004
Formatting Database Results Fields How can I customize the appearance of fields that appear in Database Results Regions? 27-May-2004
FrontPage Adds <span lang="en-us"> How can I stop FrontPage from adding <span lang="en-us"> and </span> tags around any new text I enter? 04-Jan-2004
Mailing Form Data to Several Recipients How can I make the FrontPage Save Results component send form input to more than one e-mail address? 02-May-2004
Printing FrontPage Reports How can I print the various reports that FrontPage displays in Reports view? 16-Feb-2004
Top Ten Traps for New FrontPage Designers What FrontPage features are so troublesome that I should just avoid them? 07-Aug-2004
Validating E-Mail Addresses How can I ensure that visitors enter a valid e-mail address before they submit an HTML form? 24-Jan-2004

FrontPage Troubleshooting
Banner Ad Manager Displays Incorrectly

FrontPage Banner Ad Manager components don't appear correctly for Web visitors running Windows XP. In addition, it links all pictures to the same location.

13-Jul-2004
Diagnosing Errors Saving a Form to a Database Is there any way to track whether my form, which is supposed to store data to my database, is even seeing the database, and what the errors are? 29-Dec-2003
FrontPage Apparently Missing

FrontPage isn't available even though there's a FrontPage folder under Program Files.

08-Sep-2004
FrontPage Locks Up

FrontPage stops responding to keystrokes, stops responding to mouse clicks, or fails with an error code.

04-Aug-2004
Hover Buttons Display Incorrectly

FrontPage Hover Button components don't appear correctly for Web visitors running Windows XP.

17-Feb-2004
Small Pictures Appear in FrontPage but not IE

Small pictures -- especially in tables -- fail to appear or appear intermittently in Internet Explorer.

24-Jan-2004
Usage Reports Are Empty When you open a Web site and view its Usage reports, the reports are empty. 29-Dec-2003

Security
Fixing Permissions in an Extended Web Site How can I correct faulty permissions in a FrontPage Web site? 25-Dec-2003
Securing Web Pages With Windows Authentication How can I limit access to a FrontPage Web site based on Windows login accounts? 25-Dec-2003

Service Providers
What to Ask a Prospective Hosting Service How can I determine if a specific hosting company is right for me? 18-Mar-2004

Web Page Design
Centering Thumbnail Pictures How can I display thumbnailed pictures more attractively than flush left on a white background? 27-May-2004
Creating "Printer Friendly" Pages What's the best way to create a "printer friendly" version of a Web page? 20-Dec-2003
Displaying Video Files How can I display videos from my Web page? 17-Jan-2004
Fitting Pages to the Browser Window How can my Web site display the right size to all visitors? 22-Feb-2004
Offering Files for Download How can I make files available for download by Web visitors? 28-Jan-2004
Overriding the Browser's Cache Settings. How can I ensure that Web visitors see the current version of a page, and not an old version from the browser's cache? 11-Sep-2003
Protecting Pictures How can I stop Web visitors from downloading pictures on my Web site? 26-Jan-2004
Redirecting Web Requests How can I redirect visitors from an obsolete URL to another page or Web site? 14-Jan-2004
Using Drop-Down Boxes for Hyperlinks

How can I get entries in a drop-down box to act as hyperlinks?

19-Jan-2004
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