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Tutorials,
Tips, Tricks,
and Links

* Adding & Editing in-line Images
* Adding Tables
* Setting Custom Backgrounds
* Creating Hot Spots
* Using Custom Counter Images

Creating a professional-looking Web site using FrontPage is easier than ever. This unique Editor builds complete sites in which all pages share a consistent, easily modified design, including navigation tools that the program builds automatically when you add or remove pages.

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In FrontPage Editor.
Place your cursor where you would like your image to appear.
Choose "Insert - Image" and follow the path to the image you would like to insert. To have text reside beside your image and flow gently below as need, highlight the image and choose "Edit - Image - Properties - Alignment".
Set the alignment property to left or right depending on your needs.

Adding Tables

In FrontPage Editor
place your cursor where you would like the table inserted.
Choose "Table - Insert Table" and set your table's properties as needed.
There have been added to the toolbar in FP98 many shortcuts for tables functions
for easier, quicker use, right click on the table for more options.

Setting Custom Backgrounds

In FrontPage Editor. Choose "File - Page Properties - Background"
or right click on your page
To set your own background colors place a check beside "Specify Background and Colors" and choose the desired colors. If you would like to use an image as the page's background, "browse" to your image file. If you would like to use the colors from another page within your web, place a check beside Get Background and Colors from Page, click "Browse" and find your desired source page

Creating Hot Spots

In FrontPage Editor.
Insert your image as per earlier instructions.
Highlight the image and the "Image Toolbar" will appear functional.
Choose the proper button on the toolbar for the shape desired and trace out the portion of the image where you would like the Hot Spot to appear.
The Hyperlink Properties window will appear for you to create your hyperlink as per earlier instructions.

Using Custom Counter Images

Create your Custom Counters by creating a GIF Image with any graphics program.
For the best results use a Solid Color Background. Then Add your numbers evenly spaced like "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" and center them on the background. NOTE: Transparent GIF images do not work.   If you get the numbers too close together they may not display correctly.
In a FrontPage Web, the Hit Counter's increment file is named like pagename.htm.cnt, and it's located in the http://your domain name/_private folder. If it's a sub-folder of a web then the location and name is http://your domain name/_private/FolderName/PageName.htm.cnt.
You can put the counter.GIF in there or in your images folder, just as long as you specify the path and name in the" Hit Counter Properties form box" 

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