Creating A Dynamic What's New Page In FrontPage - Database Driven! Using The FrontPage Database Results Wizard - DRW.

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When we are done we will have a Dynamic What's New page that is completely updatable with just a web browser.

You will need to have IIS installed on a Win 2000pro or XPpro or connect to your hosted web site (Link =Future Article to be posted) to create these pages.
First we create a new folder in FrontPage called Whats_New.
Then we create a namethis.asp page and save it. I prefer default or index as the main page because these are the default pages for directories, there is no need to put the full path to the page. i.e. frontpagewiz.com/directoryname/whats_new.asp
frontpagewiz.com/directoryname/default.asp
<or>
frontpagewiz.com/directoryname/ will pull the default.asp, index.asp, default.htm, index.htm (if you have one in that directory).
Now we want to create a form page. The form page will be how we add new content to the What's New page and create the database that will store all of our postings.
Create a new page and call it whats_new_post.htm. I recommend you password protect this page. I have found it is very much easier for administration pages to be posted into one password protected directory instead of adding the code to all pages. If you host your own site ask your system administrator how to PW protect a directory, if you have your site hosted just create a admin (name it anything you want) folder and ask them to pw protect it, then place all your "content management" pages in there.
On the whats_new_post.asp page click
>Insert
>Form
>Form
Now put your cursor in front of the submit button and hit the space bar.
Now hit the enter key a few times. It is important to keep all form elements within the form border.
Now click on >Insert > Form >Text Area
Your form should now look like this:
Look Like 1
Now double click on the Text Area box. Change the name of the Text Box to whatsnewcontent (always "AllOneWord") change the width to 45 and number of lines to 10.
Now click on >Validate >click the check box "Required" and min length 50 and max length 2000, this is minimum an maximum amount in characters you require the user to input. Display name >WhatsNewContent >Data Type > No constants. Click OK 2 times.
Now right click on the form field and select > Form Properties.
1. I prefer to save all my administration pages to 1 password protected directory such as "edit or admin", then apply a directory password. Your hosting provider may already have one set up for you. If not just ask them to set one up.

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