Horizontal Lines

Horizontal lines can divide sections of text for easy reading.

1. Place the cursor on the page where the horizontal line should be added.
2. Select Insert|Horizontal Line from the menu bar.
3. Double click on the line to change its properties.
   
4. Set the Width of the line either as a percentage of the window or an absolute size in pixels.
5. Change the thickness of the line by setting the Height in pixels.
6. Set the Alignment of the line to the left, center, or right size of the page.
7. The lines are automatically shaded to give the illusion of depth. Check the Solid line box to make the line all one color and set a Color for the line if necessary (not supported by Netscape).
   
   Shaded horizontal line:
   

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   Solid horizontal line (red when viewed with MSIE):
   

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8. Click OK when finished.

Symbols

Add unique symbols such as the copyright (©) and accented letters (é) from the Symbol dialog box. Select Insert|Symbol... from the menu bar. Click the symbol on the list you want to add and it will appear in the preview window. Click the Insert button to add the symbol to the page. Keep adding symbols and click Close when finished.

Other Special Characters

Comments

Text can be hidden from visitors to your web page and still be visible to you when the page is edited in FrontPage. These comments can be added by following these steps:

1. Place the cursor on the page at the location where the comment will be added.
2. Select Insert|Comment from the menu bar.
   
3. Type the text in the Comment box and click OK.
4. Notice that the commented text begins with "Comment: " and is another color to differentiate it from regular text. Open the page in a browser to see that the commented text is not visible on the page.
   

Overview of FrontPage Components

Comment
The comment is text that you can view in FrontPage Editor but is hidden when you open your page in a Web browser. Comment text appears in purple in FrontPage Editor. It retains the character-size and other attributes of the current paragraph style.

Hit Counter
The Hit Counter is a graphical component that counts the number of times your Web site has been accessed by other browsers.

Page Banner
The Page Banner is a FrontPage component that allows you to place the title of the page in text or graphical format at the top of the page. You can use this component with themes and shared borders to add a title to each page in your Web without having to modify each individual page.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
174421 FP98: What are Page Banners?

Banner Ad Manager
The Banner Ad Manager is a FrontPage component that shows each of a series of designated images for a given number of seconds, then transitions to the next image using any of several transition effects. The Banner Ad may be used as advertisement banners or simply to show a series of images.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
173438 FP98: How to Create Banner Ads using Banner Ad Manager

Confirmation Field
The Confirmation Field is a run-time component that is replaced with the contents of a form field. It can be used to repeat information, such as the name of a user or e-mail address, back to the user as confirmation of the values that they entered in the form. Another use for the Confirmation component is to verify the name and mailing address of a user who has submitted a form.

Discussion Form Handler
A Discussion Form Handler allows you to set up a discussion Web page. The Discussion Form Handler collects information from a form, formats it into an HTML page, and then adds the page to a table of contents and to a text index. The Discussion Form Handler gathers information from the form and stores it in one of a selection of formats, such as HTML or ASCII text. The Discussion Form Handler is accessed from the Form Properties dialog box.

HTML Markup Component
The HTML Markup Component allows you to enter HTML tags that are not directly supported or available in FrontPage Editor. To enter either of these elements in FrontPage Editor, you must use the HTML Markup component.

Include Page Component
The Include Page component is designed to replace itself with the contents of another file. The most common use for the Include Page component is to place the same text or graphic on every page in a multi-page Web. Examples of items that you might want to appear on each page in your Web include: copyright information, headers and footers, and product logos. The Include Page component requires the URL of the file that contains the text and images to be included on a page. Any modifications to the source document are automatically sent to each page for which it is included.

Registration Form Handler
The Registration Form Handler allows you to automatically register users for access to a service. The Registration component adds the user to the authentication databases of the service; it can then gather information from the form and store it in one of a selection of formats, such as HTML or ASCII text. The Registration component is accessed from the Form Properties dialog box.

Save Results Form Handler
The Save Results Form Handler gathers information from a form and stores it in one of a selection of formats (HTML, ASCII text). When you submit the form, the Save Results Form Handler appends the form information to a specified file in a specified format. The Save Results Form Handler is accessed from the Form Properties dialog box.

Scheduled Image
The Scheduled Image component is used when you plan to replace one image with another within a specific time period. On the expiration date, the original image is no longer displayed and another image takes its place or the place where the image existed is left blank.

When you insert a Scheduled Image component, you will need to enter the name of the image and any alternate image to be included on the page. The image must be from the current Web.

A Scheduled Image component runs when a change is made to your Web. To ensure proper timing of the Scheduled Image component, make some changes to your Web daily.

Scheduled Include Page Component
The Scheduled Include Page component is used to insert the contents of a file during a specified period of time. When the time period expires, the contents of the file are no longer displayed. You can specify an optional page to be included after a given date.

A Scheduled Include Page component is run when a change is made to your Web. To ensure proper timing of the Scheduled Include Page component, make some changes to your Web daily.

Search Form
Use the Search Form to create a search form. The FrontPage Server Extensions maintain a list of words found in each page in a Web. If the Web includes a discussion group, FrontPage also maintains a dynamic list of words found in each entry of the discussion group. At run-time, the form created by the Search Form returns a list of pages containing the words the user entered in the form. The words can include Boolean constructs, such as and, not, or, and parentheses.

Substitution Component
The Substitution component allows you to type an abbreviation that will be substituted by its expanded form. For example, you can set a variable, such as HTML, to represent "HyperText Markup Language" (without the quotation marks). Then, instead of writing out "HyperText Markup Language," you could type HTML, and HTML will expand to "HyperText Markup Language" at run-time. You define the variable as a parameter in the Web Settings dialog box (on the Tools menu, click Web Settings) in FrontPage Explorer.

Table of Contents
The Table of Contents component generates an outline of your Web. The Table of Contents updates this outline each time the Web content changes. It does not create a table of contents based on bookmarks. It uses the title element of the subpages to generate the table of contents.

Timestamp
The Timestamp inserts a date and time stamp that corresponds to the last time the page was edited or automatically updated.