The Office Power! ActionPack Professional CD is a collection of programs that enhance and extend Microsoft FrontPage.
From search engine preparation, to advanced page building tools, to online polling, ActionPack Pro is the perfect compliment to the world's best-selling Web program.
Note: This is an announcement, NOT an endorsement. I have never used this product.
If you create a folder and precede its name with an underscore (for example, _database), the folder is only hidden from FrontPage views. Such folders are useful for files that do not need to be seen in FrontPage views; however, the folder's contents can be viewed by site visitors browsing the web. If you want a folder to display in FrontPage views, select the Show documents in hidden directories check box on the Advanced tab in the Tools, Web Settings dialog box.
When you create a new web, FrontPage automatically creates a hidden folder named _private to store form results. This hidden folder created by FrontPage cannot be viewed by site visitors browsing your web. If you want additional folders that cannot be viewed by site visitors, you can create subfolders below the _private folder, or you can contact your web administrator for instructions on how to make a hidden folder.
Note: I use _database here as an example. If you are using a database in your web, the most secure way of safeguarding your database is to maintain it OUTSIDE of the web structure.
Does your web site load to slow? If you use large images on your site and they take a long time to load you may be losing visitors. Whenever I go to a site that takes too long to load I usually click the stop button and move on. Why? Because a lot of people, myself included, don't have the time to spend on slow loading sites. They need information and they need it quickly. In addition, although broadband Internet access is becoming more popular, many people are still on slow-speed connections and they're paying for that time.
So what can you do to speed up the loading of your pages? One thing is to reduce the size of your images or "slice" them up into smaller pieces. I'm sure you've seen sites where the images load in different sections at a time. How did they do this? Simple. An image slicing program.
There are many different choices out there for you to use. I prefer Adobe Image Ready, which is part of Adobe Photoshop (version 7.0 was just released by the way). But you don't have to spend a lot of money to take advantage of this time saving tip. There are also a number of freeware programs available such as ShoeString's Picture Dicer.
Users of FrontPage can also get a free add-in called FrontFX Picture Splitter to do the job for them.
Quick Tip: When adding images to your site, be sure to add height and width to the IMG tag in your code. When a web page loads the browser tries to determine how much space is needed for an image. If those tags are present then the browser reserves that much space for the image and continues to render text while the image loads, allowing you to see the page faster. In FrontPage, Right-Click on the image and go to Picture Properties (or Image Properties - depending on your version), Appearance to set those properties.
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