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~~Tina Clarke, AccessFP - Frontpage Resource Centre

Favourite Things To Do 

Fancy having your IE Favourites or Netscape Bookmarks available on your own site? In that case do the following: 

Open your Browser window and go to File | Import/Export and press to bring up the Import/Export Wizard.

In the Import/Export Wizard Dialog box that pops up, click the button marked Next and choose Export Favourites (or bookmarks if you are in Netscape).

Your Favourites are then listed. Choose the root folder and click the Next button. Now you will be presented with the address line, which should read C:\My Documents\bookmark.htm, by default.

However you can save your exported file anywhere using the browse button.

I suggest saving the file directly to the FrontPage web you want it in. 

The first time just browse to your web and insert _bookmark.htm for the end of the address. Next time all you have to do is browse to the same address.

Why you should use the underscore will become apparent later.

NOTE: You do not have to make a page beforehand.  In FrontPage this will be done automatically. 

Click next and it will ask you to click the Finish button. Next time you come to do this it will ask if you wish to replace the file say ‘Yes’ as you are just updating your file with new bookmarks you have gathered. 

You may not want your bookmark page to be available to search engines or to show up in your TOC (Table of Contents) or FrontPage search bots.  So just insert the following meta tag into the html between the Head tags.  You can do this directly in the html view by inserting

<meta name="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

OR Right click the page concerned, choose 'Page Properties' from the pop up menu under user variables click 'Add'. Under 'Name' insert robots and under 'Value' insert noindex,nofollow press ok twice and they will be inserted for you by FrontPage.

So that the page won't show up in your TOC (table of contents) or FrontPage Search Bots, I suggested above naming the file with an underscore ( _ ). FrontPage will not let files with underscores show up in the TOC and Search results.

If you have a large amount of favourites or bookmarks you may wish to use a free FrontPage host in which case check out the listing at http://accessfp.net/freefp.htm

Best of all you can check out your favourites collection for dead links using the FrontPage Reports feature. Merely select the 'In Page' column to sort the files into alphabetical order and then select all the _bookmark.htm files. You can do this by selecting the first file holding down the shift key and then selecting the last file. Or to select individual files hold down the control key and click on those files you want selected. 

You can update your favourites by deleting dead links through the browser Favourites feature. Do this once a week and your Bookmarks will always be up-to-date and fresh, thanks to FrontPage.

Tina Clarke - Microsoft MVP - FrontPage, is the Webmaster of AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre http://accessfp.net/  and http://addonfp.com  She is also an editor of AnyFrontPageBytes Ezine. Subscribe to the ezine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnyFrontPageBytes  and get FREE FrontPage E-Books upon joining. And don't forget to subscribe to get Weekly FrontPage Tips. Tina is also an artist and the owner of http://clarke-abstract-art.com