My big mouth :-) Several people emailed me regarding a very specific topic about my first impressions of Radio. To paraphrase the sentiment:
"...And, I can still use FrontPage to customize my Radio Weblog as much as I want." How about some more on THIS. That would be very useful to me.
Yes, they're right. I put my foot in it and now it's time to deliver the goods. I am working on a tutorial for this and hope to have it up soon. There are a few "nuances" in Radio that I have to be careful of when working with it in FrontPage and, since I've only been working with it for a week, I want to be sure I have all the facts before I publish a bad tutorial (or one that will harm someone's site).
I've been talking with Robert Scoble at Radio to get some of the final answers I need. I'm hoping to get the tutorial up sometime this week so please be patient. Thanks.
In FrontPage 2000 and FrontPage 2002 you can easily convert any folder in a web into a subweb. Because each subweb can have its own set of permissions for who can author, browse, or administer it, you can set up individual subwebs with different levels of permissions and different groups of users.
For example, you might set up different subwebs for Marketing and Human Resources; within the Human Resources subweb, you might have different subwebs with different permissions for job postings, employee records, and even the employee handbook. Only recruiters could update the job postings subweb, but everyone in the company could browse it. Only Human Resources managers could browse and author the employee records subweb, while everyone in the company could browse (but not author) the employee benefits web.
Warning Do not convert the root folder (for example, C: or D:) of your computer's hard drive to a web. Doing so may render your hard drive unusable.
In the Folder List, right-click the folder you want to convert to a web, and then click Convert to Web on the shortcut menu.
Notes:
Pages that include other files may not be updated when the included files change.
Hyperlinks on navigation bars may be linked to pages outside the new web.
The larger the contents of the folder, the longer it will take to convert the folder to a web. For a large folder, this process could take several minutes.
Are you proud of the Web site you built with FrontPage? Read these guidelines to learn how you can display the "Created and managed with Frontpage logo" on your site.
Use the "Apply XML Formatting Rules" to automatically take an HTML page and reformat its HTML tags to make them XML-compliant. This is especially useful when you need your pages to interact with an XML-based publishing system because the rules governing the syntax of XML tags are stricter than those for HTML. A missing tag or incorrectly formatted attribute in an XML document renders the file useless.
When you select the Apply XML formatting rules option, FrontPage 2002 searches the XML code for missing or incomplete tags and applies the correct tags.
To apply XML Formatting Rules to a Web page, open it in FrontPage 2002 and do the following:
In Page view, click the HTML button
In the HTML pane, right-click anywhere on the page.
Select Apply XML formatting rules.
Tip: If you apply XML formatting to a document formatted to exclude selected ending tags (for example, the </P> tag), those tags will likely be applied by this feature.
As my first week of using Radio comes to an end I thought I'd share some of my thoughts and first impressions of using this tool. I originally intended to make just a few observations but as I started typing I realized it wasn't going to fit into a nice small daily post. I decided create it as a story instead. If you're interested in my first impressions of Radio you can read the full version when you get the chance.
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