Understanding FrontPage 2002 Extension Three

Frontpage 2, J-bots 2002-javascript special effects Plug-ins

The effects of JavaScript are exciting, but the complexity of JavaScript language is daunting for many people. Although FrontPage itself offers many components that allow you to add special effects to a Web page without having to know the JavaScript language, FrontPage itself builds only a handful of components and dynamic effects that are far from satisfying everyone's needs. Here I introduce you to a FrontPage JavaScript effects plug-in----Web sunlimited company Web site:

http://www.websunlimited.com/

of "j-bots 2002". With J-bots you can add 40 components to FrontPage that will allow you to add a variety of features to your page, including designing an interactive online quiz, or detecting the user's screen width, height, and color depth setting.

After you install J-bots and restart FrontPage, you'll find a new J-bots toolbar. You can select the "Insert > J-bots component" on the command line to select the components provided by any one of the j-bots. The J-bots Plus version provides 87 components, in addition to the 40 general components that are originally available, and provides 47 additional components, differentiated into the following categories: Cookies, windows, graphics, and navigation tools.

The general components provided by J-bots include bouncing windows, scrolling text messages, and redirect users (redirect) to different pages based on time or date. The cookie component allows you to record the user state and display different pages based on different cookie values. The form component makes it easy to create form fields and comes with the input value confirmation feature. A graphical component can add special features to a picture on a page, such as preload a picture or create a slide effect. The navigation tool component can help you create options, hyperlinks, or other forms of navigation system. One of these components, called "menuweaver", produces a complete hierarchical option system and does not limit the number of child options.
J-bots is quite easy to use. For example, if you want to add time to a page, just place the cursor in the right place, and then select Insert > J-bots component > General Assembly > Current date from the command line, and a dialog will appear on the screen where you must enter the display format for the time. For example, if you want to show time as "10:39 a.m." format, enter "%h:%m%p" in the time display format (format of times displayed) field, as shown in Figure 3.



Once you have set the display mode, press the "Generate (Generate)" button and the current time will be inserted into your page. If you switch to the original code browsing, you will find that the following source code is inserted into the page:


!--WebBot bot= "TimeFormat" wip= "yes" Startspan preview= "10:39 AM"
s-timeformat= "%h:%m%p" tag= "P" b-twoplaces= "1" clientside-->
<script language= "JavaScript" ><!--timeformat ('%h:%m%p ', 1);//--></script>
!--WebBot bot= "TimeFormat" Endspan i-checksum= "59134"-->


The program code inserted by J-bots can work in more than 3 of Internet Explorer or more than 3 of Netscape's browsers (some components can only run in one of these browsers, for example, Netscape cannot support the Add to Favorites component).

J-BOTS2002 is a charge software, registration fee is: 49.95 U.S. dollars (j-bots); $99.95 Dollar (j-bots Plus) is too expensive for us, but you can download the trial version to experience, of course, limited some features, download URL: http://www.websunlimited.com/free_demo.htm.