Good place for basics tutorial?

[Ed from AZ]

I have FrontPage 2000. I imagine some of the stuff I want to do is
pretty basic, but I don't know what will stress out FP2000 or is
better done in a way that wasn't available back in the FP2000 days. I
also haven't used FP in a very long time, so I've forgotten everything
I might have learned - which wasn't much!

Here's some of my bright ideas:
-- a box that will sequence through whatever photos are in a folder,
but the box itself is linked to a page regardless of what photo is
showing
-- a graphic (like a drawing shape or a text box) that will change
colors
-- and maybe occasionally make the graphic spin in place

Any links y'all have found helpful with FP2000's limits are greatly
appreciated!
Ed

 

[Ronx]

No version of FrontPage cannot handle any of these without help.
Google (or your favourite search engine) for "Javascript ad rotator"
(without quotes) for the first
and animated .gif for the second and third.

--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Rick Sparks]

For the first, try
Insert / Dynamic Effects / Banner Ad Manager... but you'll have to play with
the associated text..... and it requires FP Extensions on the host to work.

For the second two, you could use an Animated GIF file.... but you'll have
to either use an existing one that you find online (or part of FP clipart if
you limit your search to Type: Animated Gif) .... or create your own.

 

[Ronx]

Banner Ad Manager does not require the FrontPage extensions, but it does
require Java (not Javascript) to be installed and running on the users PCs.
Many (if not most) users do not allow Java to run for security and/or
performance reasons, which is why I did not mention it in my post.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Ed from AZ]

Well, thanks anyway Ron and Rick. I appreciate your time to keep me
from wasting mine trying to make somwthing work that won't.

Cheers!
eD

 

[Ed from AZ]

Okay - I've perused a few online tutorials and some library books.
But I can't find one other item that I thought would be simple:
control the visibility of a form based on whether or not a checkbox is
selected. I can do that in VB or VBA, but my FP2000 Help files don't
tell me how to do this??

What I want is a contact form with three possible areas:
Do you want to comment on:
[ ] This thing?
[ ] That thing?
[ ] The other thing?
Selecting a checkbox would cause the appropriate data and text fields
to appear.

I thought perhaps I could use a table and some method of the checkbox
to set the table row height from 0.1 to Auto? Or maybe a separate
form and use a Form.Visible or Form.Height property? Ideally, the
appropriate form or row would be hidden in between the checkbox text
lines. For instance, if it were all in a table, the three checkbox
lines would be in rows 1, 3 and 5; rows 2, 4 and 6 would be set to row
height = 0.1. Selecting the first checkbox would expand row 2, and so
forth.

Okay - this isn't VB, it's HTML. Where do I go on this? Is it
something simple? Or should I do something else entirely and avoid
this?

Ed

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

Okay - I've perused a few online tutorials and some library books.
But I can't find one other item that I thought would be simple:
control the visibility of a form based on whether or not a checkbox is
selected. I can do that in VB or VBA, but my FP2000 Help files don't
tell me how to do this??

What I want is a contact form with three possible areas:
Do you want to comment on:
[ ] This thing?
[ ] That thing?
[ ] The other thing?
Selecting a checkbox would cause the appropriate data and text fields
to appear.

I thought perhaps I could use a table and some method of the checkbox
to set the table row height from 0.1 to Auto? Or maybe a separate
form and use a Form.Visible or Form.Height property? Ideally, the
appropriate form or row would be hidden in between the checkbox text
lines. For instance, if it were all in a table, the three checkbox
lines would be in rows 1, 3 and 5; rows 2, 4 and 6 would be set to row
height = 0.1. Selecting the first checkbox would expand row 2, and so
forth.

Okay - this isn't VB, it's HTML. Where do I go on this? Is it
something simple? Or should I do something else entirely and avoid
this?

Well, I think that you would need to use JavaScript. Maybe something like
this

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showhide(elmnt)
{
var T = document.getElementById(elmnt).style
T.display = (T.display == 'none') ? 'block' : 'none'
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table border>
<tr>
<td>Question 1 goes here<input type="button" value="Show/Hide Answer"
onclick="showhide('cell1');"></td>
<td id="cell1" style="display:none">Answer 1 goes here</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Question 2 goes here<input type="button" value="Show/Hide Answer"
onclick="showhide('cell2');"></td>
<td id="cell2" style="display:none">Answer 2 goes here</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Question 3 goes here<input type="button" value="Show/Hide Answer"
onclick="showhide('cell3');"></td>
<td id="cell3" style="display:none">Answer 3 goes here</td>
</tr>

</table>
</body>
</html>