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FNT en français Frontier Newbie Toolbox Table of Contents Exploring Frontier Get Start Tools Web Site Management Learning UserTalk Edito News Search UserLand Search SM list		Learning Web Site Management What's on this Page : Up and Running with Frontier Website Management Frontier Web Reference Building Standard Websites HowTos A Typical Frontier Website   Ok, now, you are ready and eager to learn how to do web sites with Frontier. You know your way around Frontier, you have your tools, so let's go !   Up and Running with Frontier Website Management http://www.jetlink.net/~mattn/webtutorial/ You already read the preliminary chapters (see Exploring Frontier), now you have to finish this tutorial by Matt Neuburg . Here are the remaining chapters that you have to read. Pay attention, this tutorial answers more questions than you think at first glance. It is maybe among the most important reading you will ever do about Frontier web site management. Exploring the Examples Your First Web Site Frontier HTML Basics, and the Directive Hierarchy Other Automatic HTML Templates Outline Formatting Includes and Macros Handling Images Glossaries Filters Defines and Custom Directives Publishing Site Outline and NextPrev Relative References Leveraging Your Work Narrative of a Rendering The chapters "Exploring the Examples" and "Your First Web Site" are a broad introduction to the Frontier website framework and its principal components; template, glossary, macros, ftpSite, prefs., all of this will be explain later at length. It's a fast way to get acquainted with all those buzzwords. The titles of the other chapters are usually explicit, so I will not cover them unless the title doesn't say it all. You might want to know that the chapter "Other Automatic HTML" explains how Frontier can automatically translate URLs into live links, and that the chapter "Outline formatting" will show you how to take advantage of the outlines to create templates, and also explains the role of the renderers that will automatically and painstakingly format outlines in lists or tables or anything you may want them to do for you. If you don't have enough information on outlines, you may jump directly to the chapter "Defines and Custom Directives" that discusses nifty tricks to embed boilerplates and scripts in outlines, plus customs directives that work also in wp objects. The chapter "Site Outline and NextPrev" covers navigational tools that Frontier offers built-in, while "Leveraging Your Work" explain how to suck an existing web site on your hard disk into Frontier. The tutorial finishes in an apotheoses with "Narrative of a Rendering" that will explain step by step how a page is published. It's a little bit dense the first time, but I guarantee you that once you start building web sites, you will come back to this page to really take advantage of the web site framework. I will say it again, this tutorial has a lot in it, so try to read it more than once. A good thing to do is to search it with a text editor like BBEdit Lite (Mac, free) or your preferred editor on Windows, because the tutorial, even if it have a nice Table of Contents, doesn't have an index (it should!).   Frontier Web Reference http://www.scripting.com/frontier5/webreference/ This tutorial from Thea Patridge is like a thesaurus. It is made with short descriptive notices. It covers many aspects of web site management with Frontier (directive, pageHeader attribute, standard macros, etc.), as well as other topics related to Frontier (Fat Page, keyboard commands, etc.). I don't know how long it will stay at this URL since Brent Simmons said to me that it might be changed or updated. This tutorial is linked from other tutorials on scripting.com. It have a very important page that lists all the directives. Go take a look and save this page on your disk. You might also have a look at the page on standard macros.   Building Standard Websites http://www.scriptmeridian.org/tutorials/stdwebsite/ This is part of a cool trend of recent didactic Frontier material. This tutorial from Andy Sylvester will show you how to take advantage of many features of Frontier web site management. The tutorial comes with a "standard web site" that you are encouraged to download to better understand the tutorial. The tutorial will help you to build navigational tools, cover topics like the glossary, nextPrev, ftpSite, template and the tools table. It take you by the hand, from the beginning to the end. It's short but very efficient.   HowTos http://www.scripting.com/frontier5/howtos/default.html The HowTos pages are from the UserLand folks and there are more pages added every week, so I will not pretend that I'm too accurate with this review. Its a very good formula as it provide a clear, but short explanation to "how to" use some of the newest and coolest functions in the website framework. Each page have some screen shots, and usually have also related links at the bottom. Unfortunately, the pages are not grouped under main topics. So it look a little bit disorganized. The topics on the HowTos web site can be divided in four main areas. How to use Frontier as a web server. Hosting Multiple Domains Rendering to the Object Database How to Serve a Dynamic Website Getting Started with Frontier's Webserver How to manage Frontier remotely. How to Move Frontier Objects Via XML-RPC How to write and call an XML-RPC handler How to manage Frontier with a team. Setting up the People Suite Setting Up the WebEdit Suite Setting up the WebEdit Server How to use Frontier to build web pages. Importing Multiple Images How to create a new website Introduction to Scalable Content In my opinion, beside the page "How to create a new website", wish is, I think the more concise explanation I ever read on this topic, the pages in the HowTos are for Newbies that already master a certain level of the website framework (i.e., that have read at least Matt's tutorial on the subject), AND have a very basic level of UserTalk. But since the HowTos are really geared to help you to do stuff immediately (and they are good for that), you might go and see by yourself if the HowTos are suited for your level knowledge of the website framework.   A Typical Frontier Website http://www.tidbits.com/matt/typical.html This is not really a tutorial, but a "typical Frontier web site" that you can download. It's from Matt Neuburg and it's worth exploring. There are nice macros in the tools table, and some are commented. If you don't have UserTalk background yet, it might be a little bit advanced.
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