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One of the reasons I haven't used Expression Web as my main design tool is the lack of a built-in feature comparable to the FrontPage Design Time Include Component. I'm happy to report that the Include function is back in the Expression Web 2 Beta. It's not a button on the Standard Toolbar, but there is a way to add it and the functionality is there. It works the same way it does in FrontPage 2003.
Microsoft and Ready-to-Run Software have released a new version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE 2002) for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.
This version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions is designed for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. (Note: The FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions use a 32-bit worker process on 64-bit systems.)
Link: IIS.net : FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 : Download : Microsoft Internet Information Services
If you use FrontPage (or you know someone who uses FrontPage) - we have good news for you if you are considering upgrading your toolset. Expression Web provides a really solid Web authoring tool to create and maintain sites based on standards-compliant code. I have a non-technical friend (a theatre producer) who bought Expression Web on my advice (he was a hardcore FrontPage user), and he found Expression Web very easy to use and intuitive.
The Expression team has a great upgrade offer - if you purchase Expression Web between now and June 30 2008, you can receive a free 80 GB USB drive and a complimentary copy of "Microsoft Expression Web Step by Step"! Visit this site to learn more about the offer.
Canadian Developers : Cool Offer and Information for Canadian Web Designers
Learn about new developer features that help make Internet Information Server (IIS) 7 the most flexible, extensible and customizable Web server on the planet. We have rebuilt the extensibility model for IIS7 to be more modular and customizable. We’ll cover the new extensibility architecture in IIS7. In IIS7, the core IIS web server functionality is implemented using the same platform that you will use to build your extensions to the server. We’ll also show off the new distributed configuration system and how easy it is to deploy applications, including IIS configuration, through simple XCopy deployment. You’ll learn about improved support in IIS7 for common Web programming languages like PHP as well as how to do applications using the best of PHP and ASP.NET.
When
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)
Register at this link:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032366128&Culture=en-US
Note: Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker.
Public Sector Developer Weblog : WEBCAST: Introducing Internet Information Server 7 for Developers
Great news at the IEBlog:
Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to “click to activate” before they could interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Because of this, we're removing the “click to activate” behavior from Internet Explorer!
It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require “click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work.
So you’re probably wondering when we are going to release this update? The first chance will be with an optional preview release, called the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview, available in December 2007 via the Microsoft Download Center. Additionally this change will be made part of the next pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. After giving people enough time to prepare for this change, we’ll roll this behavior into the IE Cumulative Update in April 2008, and all customers who install the update will get the change.
More at the source.
The fix that worked for me has two parts:
1. Bring up your remote site in IE 7. Then go to Tools > Internet Options > Security > Trusted Sites > Sites and Add your site to the list. Then Close > Apply > OK. You may need to restart IE 7 for this to take effect.
2. In IE 7, Tools > Internet Options > Security > Trusted Sites > Custom Level > User Authentication > Logon > Automatic logon with current Username and password and then OK your way back out.
This happened to me yesterday and I remembered that Rob Giordano (Crash), a Microsoft MVP for Expression Web, had discovered and shared the solution in the microsoft.public.frontpage.client newsgroup.
In IE7
Tools | Internet Options | Security | Local Intranet | Sites | Advanced and add localhost to the list.
From BillS' IIS Blog, FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) for IIS7 RC0 have been released. I still haven't upgraded any of my PCs to Vista yet, but this gets me one step closer. The other thing that needs to happen before I upgrade is that the Vista team has to fix the crash that happens when inserting hyperlinks in FrontPage 2003.
I've always wondered what my sites looked like, and more importantly, if they worked, on a Mac. I've got my eye on the MacBook Pro, but I'm waiting until Leopard with BootCamp comes out. Today, I downloaded Safari for Windows, and sure enough, I found a drop down menu on one of my sites that didn't work. It had no options in the drop down list other than the first one, no "Submit" button and worse than that, all the content underneath it was gone! I eyeballed the JavaScript and couldn't find the problem, so I Googled for Javascript validator and found JSLint. The author, Douglas Crockford, keeps it up-to-date and it's free. All you need to do is copy your page source into a text box on the page and hit the JSLint button. It will validate as much of your script as it can, and it's pretty clear about telling you what the problem is. I was able to fix the page and get it working in Safari in no time. I highly recommend adding both of these tools to your toolbox.
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary efforts in Microsoft Office FrontPage technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. MVPs reside in over 90 countries, represent 30 different languages, and cover more than 90 Microsoft technologies.
Oh, yeah - one other thing - I feel great!
Event Overview
Learn how Web publishing is changing for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0. In this webcast, we take an in-depth look at the new FTP service for IIS 7.0, with demonstrations that showcase new features such as FTP over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), enhanced security, and improved supportability options. We also discuss plans for a version of the Microsoft Office FrontPage Server Extensions for the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista operating systems, in addition to a new Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) implementation for IIS 7.0.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Presenter: Robert McMurray, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032352158&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Last fall, there were a few posts in the Microsoft FrontPage newsgroup from people desperately seeking Stephen Travis' Thingumajig - a collection of tweaks for FrontPage and the FrontPage Database Wizard. Stephen is a former Microsoft MVP for FrontPage and his macros enabled users to extend FrontPage and customize it to their needs. Stephen had taken his site down and the macros were no longer available. I tracked him down using Google and he very graciously allowed me to republish Thingumajig on my site.
I first published the tweaks for the FrontPage Database Wizard. Today, at the prompting of another FrontPage user, I published the remainder of the tweaks - the Miscellaneous Macros. I haven't used them myself, and really can't provide any support for them, but they are there for anyone to use.
Thanks, Stephen!
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