FrontPage® 2000 FAQ
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Continuous Background Sound on my Site ?
People usually ask this question, without realizing the implications of such a site. You can do this, but it would be very annoying to the user if they had no way to control or stop the music.
If you must do this, then please give the user some way to pause or stop the music.
Anyway, If you still want background sound for both IE and Netscape, click here.
I can never understand why people ask this question. Is your code so good that it needs to be hidden ? Some possible reasons could be :
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To stop people from stealing my keywords.
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I've stolen keywords and don't want to get caught.
I wouldn't worry too much about Meta Keywords anymore. The few search engines that still use these, only do so to detect "Spammers". If there are any keywords they detect, that do not match the site content or subject, then this is considered "spamming" and the site will not get listed. Hiding invisible content keywords also gets you thrown out on your ear.
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I've seen other sites that have "view page source" greyed out.
True, but if you go to File | Edit in your browser then View Source, or view the page in your cache folder, or even edit the page with FP, you can see the code.
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I don't want users to know that my site was made with FP2000.
I can't imagine why, but if you want to remove "FP" Meta tags from your site, don't try to hide your code, get an add-in to remove these meta tags. See Jimco's Add-Ins.
Automatically Make My Homepage Yours
This is one of my all time favourite "why ?" questions. This can be answered when you ask yourself "would I like someone to do this to me ?"
Personally, the last thing I would want, was "Gerald's Smurf Collectors Homepage" loading up every time I invoked my browser ! Besides, if your site is that good, then they will bookmark and return.
If you are not convinced with the above statements, and still want the code to do this, then click here.
Setting the User's Browser Settings
As newbees, we've all made the mistake of designing something that looks great on our browsers and screen settings, without realizing how bad they look to other users, with different browser and screen settings.
But instead of learning our lesson and re-designing the site for a wider audience, some of us think it is a better idea to force the user's browser and screen settings to conform to our site.
This is very annoying to users, and can cause browsers to hang or crash completely. You might as well advertise your site "Visit us and get a free re-boot" !
Everyone knows that It's very difficult to cater for every single person's screen and browser settings. However, you can get reasonable results by following these three basic rules :
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Design for both IE and Netscape from at least versions 3 and up.
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Where possible, make your site content resizable in the browser.
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Avoid absolute positioning as Netscape does not support this.
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Check how your site works with certain browser settings disabled.
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Check your site in as many different browsers as possible.
Some sites take a different approach, by re-directing the user to a site version that suits. This is another alternative, but can mean twice the work, twice the size, and can be a nightmare to update.
I did this with my company site, having one for frame browsers, and one for non-frames browsers. I have since abandoned frames for both this and my company site.
This is a very common question asked, and is usually a very big problem for artists and photographers, wishing to sell their talent online, without anyone getting their talent for free. However, there is no easy solution.
Many people ask how to disable the right clicking of images in browsers, in order to prevent the user from copying the image. Here's the "disable right mouse click" script. This must be placed in the <head> of the page's HTML (remember it only works with IE).
<Script Language="JavaScript">
<!--
function click(){
if (event.button==2) { alert('You are not stealing my images - Get your own')}
}
document.onmousedown=click
// -->
</Script>
This script doesn't really do the job though. Once the browser has displayed the image, it resides on the user's machine, in the cache folder of the browser. The browser has effectively "Stolen" the image without the user having to lift a finger, bypassing the script entirely !
Even if there was a way to display the image without sending it to the cache, the user could use a variety of edit or screen capture methods to get the image. Or they could disable JavaScript in their browsers and bypass this script entirely.
There are some ways to deter theft and misuse of your images :
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Branding / copyrighting your images and issuing strict warnings.
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Displaying only expendable samples of your work as a "taster".
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Displaying only spoilt or watermarked images.
These can work to a certain degree, but the best solution is not to put anything on the web you don't want stolen.
Please do not ask about Hoover buttons, especially in newsgroups. All you will get, is a lot of vacuum cleaner jokes. The correct term is Hover not Hoover
However, if you really wanted a Hoover button, here you go :
Many thanks to Tom for the button. (It's actually a Mouseover button - not a Hover button).
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