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Front Page 98

Tutorials,
Tips, Tricks,
and Links

* Previewing a Web Page
* Creating Transparent GIF Images
* Beveled button hyperlinks
* Creating an "Back Button" with a image

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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While viewing a page in FrontPage Editor, choose the "Preview" tab at the bottom, left of the screen. Some components will not show up or view properly Intel the page is saved.

Creating Transparent GIF Images

You should do this with your graphics program. If you would like to use FrontPage, insert your GIF image onto your page as per earlier instructions. Highlight the image and the Image Toolbar will appear functional.
Choose the "Make Transparent" button and click the wand on the desired transparent color.
But you can only make 1 color transparent per page.

Beveled button hyperlinks

You can make beveled button hyperlinks using the Form Field Push Button. In FrontPage 98.
Simply click the Push Button icon on the tool bar to place it on your page.
Double click on the button and enter the text to appear on the button in the Value - Label text box.
Click Ok. Right click in the dashed area, then click on Form Properties. Click on Send to other, leaving the default at Custom, then click on Options. In the Actions text box, enter the URL of the page you want the visitor to go to.
Click on Ok.

Creating an "Back Button" with a image

So that the image link will be compatible in both Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers, the image must be contained within a form. The easiest method to accomplish this is to create a Form Image. To do so, go to FrontPage Editor and click on Insert, Form Field, Image and select the image to be used for the link. Click OK to create the form image. Then, right click inside the dashed boundary containing the image. Click Form Properties,  click "Send to other:" then options, then enter into the Action text box the following:
javascript:history. back()
Then, click OK twice to return to the Editor. Save your form and try it out.
Note: While the image is functional in Netscape, visitors will not get a visual indication that the image is a link, " mouse over" as they do in Internet Explorer. Therefore, you may want to put some text  in to alert visitors that the image is a link.

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