Re: [cobalt-users] Shell Scripting

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jeff Lasman so wrote:

} You're saying several things here.  One, you're saying that this site
} was designed by FP2K?  That's pretty good; mind sharing your settings?

	Yes I am. Indeed it was. I already did but here they are again:

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The way you do it is pretty simple. Make yourself a "template" page
containing every HTML tag you can think of and/or that you'll use.
The more complex the page the better. I ran my "template" page
through HTML tidy ( http://www.w3.org/ ) and thereby massaged it
into valid HTML. Format your "template" page exactly as you would
like your code to look. Then just store it on your desktop somewhere
where FrontPage can get at it.

	Then fire up FrontPage and open the web you want to work on.
While that we is open, but without any of the pages from that
web loaded in the GUI, click "file", then "open" and load the
"template" page you just made. Once the page is loaded in the GUI,
click "tools", then "Page Options". On the HTML source TAB click
"Reformat using the rules below" then push the "Base on current
page" button. On the "General" tab uncheck "Use DIV and SPAN tags
when positioning" and uncheck "Automatically enclose form fields
within a form". On the "Compatability" tab select "Custom" for
"Browsers" and for "Browser versions" and select "Apache server" for
"Servers".

	Quite simply, you simply turn off all of FrontPage's
formatting rules and give it a "template" page which it uses to
obtain the format for the pages you'll be creating from.

	FrontPage rocks when it's setup properly. While I
often use Netscape or IE specific tags, my setup of FrontPage
will generate HTML that will validate as HTML4.1 right out of
the GUI. There's a bit more to it than I described here, but this
should be enough to get you pointed in the right direction.

  	A fairly good tutorial on pushing FrontPage up to this level
can be found at http://www.builder.com/Authoring/FrontPage2000/ and
more ticks and tips can be found at http://www.cnet.com/

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