In this issue:

-- Site Management: Avoiding Some Common Mistakes
-- New Web Site for Hosting FrontPage Server Extensions
-- JAVASOURCE Tip: Messages Overlib
-- Get Under The Hood with Microsoft Internet Explorer
-- Free Web Site Hosting From Yahoo! Geocities
-- Free* Trial: Meta Tag Maker for FrontPage 2000


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NEW ARTICLES
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SITE MANAGEMENT: AVOIDING SOME COMMON MISTAKES
In addition to creating Web site content that is interesting and useful, there are many administrative tasks associated with managing and maintaining a Web site. Many sites on the Internet have broken links or outdated information, which frustrates visitors. Find out how you can avoid common mistakes on your Web site and make sure visitors want to come back again. Read the article about managing your Web site at:
<http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/focus/articles/MngWebOV.htm>


NEW WEB SITE FOR HOSTING FRONTPAGE SERVER EXTENSIONS
If you are an Internet Service Provider or simply want to host the FrontPage and Microsoft Office Server Extensions on your own server, visit this new site that helps you implement and manage them:
<http://www.microsoftwpp.com/info/>


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TIPS AND TRICKS
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JAVASOURCE TIP:  MESSAGES OVERLIB
Using this script from Javasource, you can create links on your site that display a message when the user places their cursor over it. Your message can be displayed in a number of box styles. And, since it is in a .js file, you can add the code to your site once and call it from every page of your site. See examples and check out the easy instructions for creating the .js file and cutting and pasting the script at:
<http://javascript.internet.com/messages/overlib.html#source>


GET UNDER THE HOOD WITH MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER
If there are Web page layouts that really catch your eye and you'd like to know how to recreate them, FrontPage and Internet Explorer 4.0 can point you in the right direction. With the Microsoft FrontPage Web site creation and management tool set up as your HTML Editor in Internet Explorer, you can go to almost any Web page, click on the edit button at the top of the browser, and that page will open in the FrontPage Normal View where you can see how tables and cells are used to create a specific layout. 

To set FrontPage as your HTML editor in Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu at the top of the browser and select Internet Options.  Under the Programs tab, select Microsoft FrontPage as your HTML editor and when you next visit a Web page, you can select edit from the browser and the page will open in FrontPage Normal View.


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FREE STUFF AND SPECIAL OFFERS
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FREE WEB SITE HOSTING FROM YAHOO! GEOCITIES
Yahoo! GeoCities users can now publish Office documents to the Internet quickly and easily using Office 2000. So getting your Microsoft Word 2000 documents, Microsoft Excel 2000 spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 presentations, and FrontPage 2000-created Web pages online is now as simple as saving those documents to a hard drive. For details and to sign up for your own account see:
<http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/services/yahoocohome.asp>


FREE* TRIAL: META TAG MAKER
You've developed a great Web site. Now it's time to get it noticed! The most important first step is to make sure that search engines favorably index your FrontPage Web site so that people can locate it. Use Meta Tag Maker 2000 to create and manage meta tags with one easy-to-use dialog box. Use the tips provided by the Help system to create meta tags that will improve your Web site ranking. Get your free* trial at:
<http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/mtm2demo.htm>


That's it for this month's issue. 


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