Top Ten Tips for FrontPage 2002

1. In Page view, click on AutoShapes, then Callouts and select a choice.
2. Place your cursor in the new drawing canvas on your page and click to create your callout shape.
3. Click on the callout shape to select it, then click the Fill Color (paint bucket) icon in the Drawing Toolbar and select the color you want to fill the shape with.
4. Reselect your callout shape, click the Shadow Style icon on the Drawing Toolbar and select a drop shadow choice.
5. Reselect your callout shape and type or paste text.

More information
For more information about using the PowerPoint-like Drawing Tools, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

To add sports content to your Web site from MSNBC, open a new or existing page in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:

1. In Page view, select Web Component from the Insert menu.
2. Under Component Type: scroll down to MSNBC Components.
3. Select MSNBC Components.
4. Under Choose a MSNBC component: select Sports Headlines from MSNBC.
5. Click Finish.

There are more than a dozen different usage analysis reports you can choose from to help you improve your Web site?s navigation and better understand your visitors? interests. Half of these reports provide usage summaries of the visits to your Web site and number of hits on individual pages on your Web site by month, week, or day. The other reports are as follows:

• Visiting Users: number of unique site visitors using your Web site. 
• Operating Systems: summary of the operating systems used by your Web site visitors.
• Browsers: list of the browsers used by your Web site visitors. 
• Referring Domains: list of the most frequent referring domains to your Web site.
• Referring URLs: list of the most frequent referring URLs to your Web site. 
• Search Strings: list of the most frequent search terms used to find your web site.

All of these usage analysis reports can be filtered to see just the information that you want and can be exported to HTML or Microsoft Excel.

Note: This feature is only available on Web sites published to Web servers running SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft or Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions.

More information
For more information about using Usage Analysis Reports, see Setting Up Usage Analysis in FrontPage 2002 or Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

To add a link bar to a page or your entire Web site, open a new or existing page in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:

1. In Page view, select Web Component from the Insert menu.
2. Under Component Type: select Link Bars.
3. Under Choose a bar type: select a bar type.
4. Select Next and let the wizard walk you through finishing the Link Bar.
5. Click Finish.
6. In Link Bar Properties, enter a name for your new Link Bar in Create New Link Bar and click OK.
7. Under Links, enter your custom links by clicking on Add link.
8. Complete your link list and click OK to close Link Bar Properties.

Tip: If a theme has been applied to your web site, button link bars will use fonts, colors, and other style elements from the theme.

More information
For more information about Building Custom Link Bars, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

To add a Top 10 List to a page on your Web site, open a new or existing page in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:

1. In Page view, select Web Component from the Insert menu.
2. Under Component Type: select Top 10 List.
3. Under Choose a usage list: select a usage list.
4. Select Next and let the wizard walk you through finishing the Link Bar.
5. Click Finish.
6. In Top 10 List Properties, enter a name for your new usage list in Title Text: box.
7. Under List Style, select a list style and click OK to close Top 10 List Properties.

Tip: To see list usage data, you must save and publish this page to a web on a server that supports the Microsoft FrontPage? version 2002 Server Extensions. Note: If no data appears in your list, check to see if Usage Analysis is enabled. To find out more about Usage Analysis see, ?Setting Up Usage Analysis in FrontPage 2002?.

More information
For more information about inserting a Top Ten List, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help. 

To add a user account with Administrator role permissions, open a SharePoint team Web site with FrontPage 2002 and edit it directly on the server as follows:

1. On the Tools menu, point to Server, and then click Administration Home.
2. On the Site Administration page, under Users and roles, click Manage users.
3. Click Add a user.
4. In the User area, click Add a new user with the following information, and then type the user name and password for the new user account.
5. In the User Role area, select the Administrator role for the new account.
6. Click Add User.
7. To remotely administer your SharePoint Team Services Web site, open a browser and go to the Web site.
8. Click on Site Settings on the home page.

Tip: To add a user account, your account must already have the Administrator role. You may need to check with your Internet service provider (ISP) or web server administrator to set up your initial permissions.

More information
For more information about managing users and user roles, see Microsoft SharePoint Team Services 2002 Help.

To use the Enhanced Publishing Dialog, open a new or existing Web in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:

1. From the File menu, click Publish Web.
2. Under Enter publish destination:, enter a URL (see Note:) or click Browse to select a destination Web.
3. In the Publish Web dialog, click the Show>> button to show the contents of the server you?re publishing to.
4. Click and drag files from the source to the destination, or you can click Publish to publish all new or changed pages.

Tip: Type the destination Web URL in the form- http://servername/ directory (where servername is the name of the server you want to publish to, and directory is the directory you want it placed in).

More information
For more information about publishing your Web, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

To replace the SharePoint Team Services logo on the home page with your own logo in SharePoint Team Services-based Web site, edit it directly on the server as follows:

1. From the File menu, select Open Web.
2. Type in the URL for your SharePoint team Web site (http://your_SharePoint_team_Web_site_computer?s_name/) next to Web name: and click Open.
3. In Page view, Double-click on Default.htm to start editing the home page.
4. To replace the logo with a new graphic, right-click on the large logo on the right side of the page and select Cut from the shortcut menu.
5. From the Insert menu, select Picture and click From File?.
6. In the Picture dialog, browse to the image you want to use, select it, click the Insert button, and save the page.
7. In Save Embedded Files, select options for how and where you want to save the new logo image.
8. Click OK again to save the image and in the File menu, click Preview in Browser to view your new logo in the SharePoint Team Services-based Web site.

More information
For more information about working with SharePoint team Web sites, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

To use the enhanced Find and Replace in a page or across your entire Web site, open a new or existing page or Web site in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:

1. From the Edit menu, select Find or Replace.
2. In Find where:, select where to search by clicking Current page, Selected page(s) or All Pages
3. To find and replace content, click the Replace tab, enter your text in Find what:, and Replace with: and click Replace All or Replace.

Tip: To search Selected page(s) multiple select more than one Web page or file to search. In Folder List view, press the control key and left-click (CTRL+Left-click) on each file to select it. Then open Find or Replace dialog to search only on the selected files. Make sure you select Selected page(s) under Find where: before doing a replace.

More information

For more information about the Find and Replace, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

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:

1. Click on the table while editing it in Page view.
2. In the Table menu, select Table AutoFormat.
3. In Formats:, select from the list of 33 table format designs to create the look you want.
4. To further customize the table format, select options under Formats to apply and Apply special formats.
5. Click OK.

Tip: Two other new table-editing features in the Table menu of FrontPage 2002 are Table Fill and Split Table.

• You can easily repeat the contents of an individual cell by clicking on the cell to copy, then selecting that cell and adjacent cells to copy to by dragging the cursor over them. Go to the Table menu and select Fill, then Right or Fill, and then Down.
• Split Table allows you to divide a table at any location to quickly and easily add text or graphics in between rows in a table. Just click the table row you want to be the first row of the second table, go to the Table menu and select Split Table.

More information
For more information about using new table editing features such as AutoFormat, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.

A special thanks to Microsoft for this exclusive preview of FrontPage 2002!