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**MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE BULLETIN**
A monthly newsletter created expressly for users of the Microsoft FrontPage
 Web site creation and management tool.

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This free monthly newsletter helps you get the most out of Microsoft FrontPage with insights and information on the world's leading Web authoring and creation tool. Learn about special limited-time offers, upcoming releases, the latest tips and expert advice, new additions to Microsoft FrontPage, and more—
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The May 2002 issue will highlight Online Communities

This months issue April 2002

Welcome to the Microsoft® FrontPage® Bulletin with a special focus on Marketing Yourself on the Web! Don’t forget to fill out our survey.

http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
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FRONTPAGE NEWS

FRONTPAGE 2002 TAKES AMERICA'S PREMIER MOUNTAINEER TO NEW HEIGHTS
Microsoft Office XP is proud to support Ed Viesturs, America's Premier Mountaineer, and his Endeavor 8000 quest to climb all 14 of the Earth's 8,000-meter peaks. Number 13 on that list is Mt. Annapurna in the Himalayas. Learn how Ed uses FrontPage to maintain his Web site, giving his fans access to all the details of his expeditions at:
http://www.microsoft.com/OFFICE/VIESTURS/FRONTPAGE.ASP 

Also, find out how Ed and his multinational team are using SharePoint Team Services, included in FrontPage 2002, to prepare for this expedition— and keep in touch with family, friends, fans, and sponsors while they make their way to the summit at:
http://www.microsoft.com/OFFICE/VIESTURS/SHAREPOINT.ASP 

NEW FRONTPAGE LEGAL SOLUTIONS TOOLKIT FOR SHAREPOINT TEAM SERVICES
The SharePoint Team Services team Web site solution that ships with FrontPage version 2002 offers a great way for you to create a team or intranet site. This new FrontPage Legal Solutions Toolkit is complete with sample sites, detailed technical how-to information, downloadable Themes and list templates to help you create great, industry specific, fully customized SharePoint Team Services-based sites using FrontPage version 2002. Also, look forward to other vertical market Solutions Toolkits coming soon. The FrontPage Legal Solutions Toolkit for SharePoint Team Services is located at:
http://www.sharepointsample.com/STK/LEGAL/CONTENT/  

JOIN US AT NETWORLD + INTEROP: MAY 7-9
Come to NetWorld+Interop's world-renowned Exhibition in Las Vegas and visit us at the FrontPage booth. Learn the latest information in networking from industry experts in world-class conferences, special interest days, tutorials and workshops. You'll come away with knowledge you can implement immediately, and a clear view of what's over the horizon in networking technologies. Find out more at:
http://www.key3media.com/interop 

MICROSOFT OFFICE SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE
May 14-18, 2002 Rancho Mirage, (Palm Springs), CA, put Microsoft Office and .NET to work for you to increase productivity, optimize your investment in Microsoft Office, simplify application development, maintain your competitive advantage, and determine whether it’s better to build or buy. Register at:
http://www.msofficemag.net/events/mosc2002/ 

FREE MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS SEMINARS COMING TO YOU 
In the office, on-line, or on the road – experience the tools and technology to increase productivity at your business. Learn how to improve the way you manage your business using Windows XP Professional and Office XP Professional! Discover valuable resources for maximizing connectivity & the Internet with Outlook, bCentral, FrontPage, SharePoint, and more. For more information and a complete agenda visit:
http://www.msbigday.com/Default.asp.

GETTING FOUND AND DRIVING TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE
There are millions and millions of pages on the Web, but how do you make sure potential customers will find your Microsoft FrontPage-based Web site? Promote it. There are many options available from improving how your site is read by search engines to online and offline advertising. Find out how at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/GettingFound.html

WEB MARKETING 101: TRICKY TIMES FOR BANNER ADVERTISING
Shane McLaughlin, freelance writer and Senior Writer at Best Practices in Corporate Communications, discusses the most interactive form of advertising ever—banner ads. How do you get surfers to “click-through” to your site now, when the ad market is soft and the average Web surfer is distracted? McLaughlin talks to Web-marketing expert Jim Sterne, who explains how you can do it right and still make waves on the Web. More at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/banner.html

MAKING WEB PAGES ACCESSIBLE: MULTIMEDIA DEMOS FROM HISOFTWARE
Learn more about creating an accessible Web site in FrontPage through this accessible multimedia presentation! HiSoftware’s Hi-Caption™ 1.0, Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002 and Microsoft Producer 2002 deliver an accessible training solution for AccRepair™ for FrontPage.
http://www.hisoftware.com/support/mm/fp_files/default.htm 

WHITTIER COLLEGE FRONTPAGE-BASED WEB SOLUTION
The Whittier College Web site serves the online needs of Whittier College—a four-year, independent, residential liberal arts college. The college was experiencing a serious problem: its Web site was not meeting the communication needs of its internal and external constituencies. FrontPage was chosen to provide a complete solution that also made it easy for the entire Whittier College community and staff to continuously update the site using FrontPage. Find out how at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/evaluation/gallery/whittier.htm 

TIPS ON MARKETING YOURSELF AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER
Becoming a qualified Web Presence Developer (WPD) for Microsoft FrontPage is an excellent way to connect with thousands of Microsoft Office and FrontPage customers and provide them value-add services in areas where they need assistance. There are also a number of ways you can use your membership in the Program to help market your company’s Web development business. More at:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/TipsMarketingYourself.html

META TAG RESOURCES
Below are 2 articles to help you work with META tags-

“MetaTags Collection Object”
An array of property key/value pairs, each MetaTag object represents a META tag contained on an HTML page in Microsoft FrontPage. The MetaTags collection is a member of the WebFile object. Find out more about the collection object at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/enus/vbafpw10/html/fpobjMetaTags.asp

“Programmatically Add Meta Information to Your FrontPage-based Web”
This step-by-step guide will show you how to programmatically standardize the META tags throughout your Web site. After you manually add parameters to your Web site, the included sample Visual Basic for Applications macro examines your Web settings for the parameters and adds META tags to each page in your Web site.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316011 

CREATE BANNER ADS USING THE IFRAME TAG
This article explains how to use the IFRAME tag to create alternative "banner advertisements" that work with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The IFRAME tag is defined in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 4.0 specification by the World Wide Web Consortium. This tag allows Web authors to insert a frame in the middle of a Web page. More at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q272246

NEW: FEATURED ADD-IN FOR FRONTPAGE
Use the Meta add-in for FrontPage from Jimco Add-ins to add Keyword and Description meta tags, control page redirection at a preset interval, control page cache control, and control whether or not FrontPage adds the GENERATOR and ProgId meta tags to your pages. Includes context-sensitive help. Download it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/searchdetail.asp?aid=14  

FRONTPAGE GALLERY FEATURED WEB SITE
Coastal Networks, owner of Netfingers.com, chose Microsoft FrontPage version 2002 to develop their business services site because this was their first Internet project, and FrontPage offered them the best opportunity to learn the medium while getting their site launched in the shortest possible time on a limited budget. More at: http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/evaluation/gallery/netfingers.htm 

CREATE BANNER ADS USING BANNER AD MANAGER
The Banner Ad Manager is a component that uses transition effects and displays a series of pictures for a given number of seconds. Banner ads may be used as advertisement banners or simply to display a series of pictures.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q196546 

WRITE A TIP CONTEST FOR FRONTPAGE 2002
Experience all of the new and improved capabilities of FrontPage 2002, and then share your experience with everyone else by entering our Microsoft Office XP "T-Shirts for Tipsters" Contest.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/tipstricks/submittip.htm

HiSoftware Accessibility Book For FREE
“Understanding Accessibility: A Guide to Achieving Compliance on Web Sites and Intranets ” from HiSoftware Company, is a guide to creating and testing Web sites that are developed to the U.S. federal standards for accessible Web content, and the World Wide Web, or W3C®, accessibility guidelines. This book introduces the accessibility initiative and its challenges and provides a complete reference on accessibility remediation. It also provides guidelines for accessible Web design, and information that will assist organizations in integrating accessibility into their existing quality assurance and content management practices. Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin Subscribers can download a free copy of the MS Reader eBook from:
http://www.hisoftware.com/msacc/regbook.htm 

For more information, about this publication visit:
http://www.hisoftware.com/uaccess/Index.html

Web Site Power Toolkit
If you have a Web site or you've been thinking about putting
one up, here's an action kit that can save you time, money and energy. It contains tutorials and instructions for all the things you need to know and how to do them with FrontPage. The Web Site Power Toolkit is written by the famous Internet marketing guru Marlon Sanders and is completely updated to cover all things FrontPage. The Web Site Power System retails for $97, but for FrontPage Bulletin readers, there’s a special discount of more than 50% off retail at:
http://www.putbizonweb.com/frontpage/  

TAKE THE FRONTPAGE BULLETIN SURVEY
Here’s a chance to help us improve the Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin. By filling out this brief survey, we can find out more about what topics interest you and what we can do to improve the FrontPage Bulletin. Please take a quick moment to give us your feedbackat:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/survey.asp

FRONTPAGE BULLETIN COMMENTS We are listening to you! Please keep on sending your comments to:
fpcommnt@microsoft.com

SUBMIT YOUR FAVORITE SITE
Would you like to get the chance to get your Web site featured in our new Web Gallery? Send us the address of a great Web site that's built and managed with FrontPage version 2002. We're especially interested in those that are using FrontPage 2002 features in a unique way to create a great looking Web site. Please place "Site Submission" in the subject line, tell us what features you are using and how you are using them, and include the site address (URL) in the body of the message. Email to: 
FPTIPS@microsoft.com

share great ways to use FrontPage
Like to tell us about a tip, trick or share a cool way you use a feature of FrontPage? We'll include highlights of them in future issues. Send to:
FPTIPS@microsoft.com

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