Adding Other Web Components

A Web component, sometimes called a WebBot, is a dynamic object on a Web page that is evaluated and executed when a page is saved or, in some cases, opened in a Web browser. The Date and Time component and the Table of Contents for This Web Site component are examples of FrontPage Web components.

By using Web Components in Microsoft FrontPage, you can add a wide variety of features to your Web site, ranging from hit counters that register the number of visitors to a page, to photo galleries that display a collection of graphics.

You can choose from two types of Web components: author-time components or browse-time components.

Author-time components are tools that can make it easier to create and design Web pages. They are available in FrontPage. If you want to add an author-time component to your site — such as a photo gallery or link bar — you do not need to install specific software or a specific server technology on the Web server that hosts your site.

Browse-time components are available on Web sites located on Web servers running FrontPage Server Extensions from Microsoft, SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft, or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

You can insert many different Web components in Microsoft FrontPage by using the Insert Web Component dialog box. (Insert, Web Component) The dialog box provides options for the following items:

Dynamic Effects

Marquee Makes text scroll horizontally across the screen.
Interactive Button Inserts a graphical button that contains text. The button changes when a site visitor points to it.

Web Search

This tool allows visitors to search your web site. An Internet web search tool is provided below under MSN Components.

Current Web Inserts a search form that searches the contents of the active Web site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft or SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft.
Full-Text Search Enables a full-text search of your Web site. This component requires Windows SharePoint Services. Full-text search must be enabled on the server.

Spreadsheets and Charts (Office Web Components)

You can add interactive spreadsheets, charts, graphs, and PivotTable lists to your Web pages by using the Microsoft Office Web Components. The Office Web Components are Microsoft ActiveX controls that display data from a workbook, database, or other data source that you specify. When the data in that data source changes, the component displays those changes. This helps to ensure that you and your site visitors can view and interact with data that is up to date.

The Office Web Components include the following:

Office Spreadsheet This component displays data in an interactive spreadsheet.
Office Chart This component displays data in an interactive chart.
Office PivotTable This component displays data in an interactive PivotTable list.

By default, site visitors can both view and interact with data in any type of Office Web Component. However, you can specify protection settings for a component. These settings determine whether site visitors can only view the data in the component, or can both view and interact with that data.

Hit Counter

Hit counters has fallen from common usage by most web developers, as more accurate visitor information is available from the web hosting company. If you still want to include one, this is how it is done. Each Hit Counter option inserts a hit counter that tallies and displays the number of times the page has been visited. Choose from the following color combinations:

Gold digits on black background.
Black digits on white background, comic style font.
Orange digits on black background.
Black digits on white background, block style font.
Green digits on black background.

Photo Gallery

Here is yet another way to add a Photo Gallery to your web site.

Horizontal Layout Inserts a horizontal arrangement of photos.
Montage Layout Inserts a montage layout of photos.
Slide Show Inserts a slide show layout of photos.
Vertical Layout Inserts a vertical arrangement of photos.

Included Content

Substitution Inserts a component that shows the author, description, last changed date, or URL.
Page Inserts a component that displays the contents of one page on another page.
Page Based on Schedule Inserts a component that displays the contents of another page on the active page at specified times. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft or SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft.
Picture Based on Schedule Inserts a component that displays a picture on the active page at specified times. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services v1.0.
Page Banner Inserts a page banner that is displayed as a graphical title based on the page theme or as text.

Link Bars

We have covered this content already in this class.

Bar with custom links Inserts a bar of hyperlinks that point to pages within the active site or to external links. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft, SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft, or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
Bar with back and next links Inserts a bar of hyperlinks that point to a sequence of pages within the active site.
Bar based on navigation structure Inserts a link bar or a back and next link bar based on the navigation structure of the site.

This is another site navigation aid that I do not teach in this class. Just be aware that it is an option.

For This Web Site Inserts a table of contents for the active Web site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft or SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft.
Based on Page Category Inserts a table of contents for the active Web site based on chosen categories.

Top Ten List

Here is a better way to capture visitor information that the Hit Counter.

Visited Pages Inserts a component that shows the top 10 most visited pages in the active site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft, SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
Referring Domains Inserts a component that shows the top 10 referring domains for the active site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, SharePoint Team Services v1.0, or Windows SharePoint Services.
Referring URLs Inserts a component that shows the top 10 referring URLs for the active site. This component requires the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, SharePoint Team Services v1.0, or Windows SharePoint Services.
Search Strings Inserts a component that shows the top 10 search strings used in search engines to find the active site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, SharePoint Team Services v1.0, or Windows SharePoint Services.
Visiting Users Inserts a component that shows the top 10 most frequent site visitors for the active site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, SharePoint Team Services v1.0, or Windows SharePoint Services.
Operating Systems Inserts a component that shows the top 10 most popular operating systems of site visitors. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, SharePoint Team Services v1.0, or Windows SharePoint Services.
Browser Inserts a component that shows the top ten most popular Web browsers used to view the active site. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, SharePoint Team Services v1.0, or Windows SharePoint Services.

List View and Document Library View

Since these feature require Share Point Team Services, we will not be going into these in class.

MSN Mapping Components

This is the easiest way to insert a map into your site, although we will also look at another way.

Link to a map Inserts a link that takes site visitors to the MSN Maps & Directions Web site to view a dynamic map with the location already marked.
Static map Inserts a static map from MSN Maps & Directions for a specific location.

MSN Components

Search the Web with MSN Inserts a component on your page that enables site visitors to search the Web by using MSN.
Stock quote Inserts a component on your page that enables site visitors to look up stock quotes.

MSNBC Components

Business Headlines from MSNBC Inserts an MSNBC component that displays an image link to MSNBC business headlines on the MSNBC site.
Living and travel headlines from MSNBC Inserts an MSNBC component that displays an image link to MSNBC living and travel headlines on the MSNBC site.
News Headlines from MSNBC Inserts an MSNBC component that displays an image link to MSNBC news headlines on the MSNBC site.
Sports Headlines from MSNBC Inserts an MSNBC component that displays an image link to MSNBC sports headlines on the MSNBC site.
Technology Headlines from MSNBC Inserts an MSNBC component that displays an image link to MSNBC technology headlines on the MSNBC site.
Weather forecast from MSNBC Inserts an MSNBC component that displays MSNBC weather headlines on your page.

Additional Components

Visual InterDev Navigation Bar Inserts a Visual InterDev Navigation Bar. This component requires FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft or SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft.

Advanced Controls

HTML Inserts HTML content that will not be modified by FrontPage.

Java Applet Inserts a Java applet.

Plug-In Inserts a plug-in.

Confirmation Field Displays the information that a site visitor enters on a form.

ActiveX Control Inserts a Microsoft ActiveX control.

Design-Time Control Inserts a design-time control, an ActiveX control that is used while designing or editing a page.

Movie in Flash Format Inserts a movie in Macromedia Flash format.

About Web Components in FrontPage