FrontPage and Commission Junction Technology
The Tutorial - Part 1

Step 1: Understanding the Process

The first step in all of this, simply, is understanding the process.  To do that, first, we must understand three terms:

Templates - There is no need to create Web pages from scratch every time you want to add something new to your site.  Use Web page templates for goodness sake - you use templates everywhere else in the "real world!"

Included Pages - A powerful element of FrontPage.  We hit on them a little bit in a previous FrontPage World Tip.  In short, they allow you to create a small page that can be included in a new of other pages so that when you change the small page, all the other pages change as well.  The top and bottom of this page (and pretty much any other page at FrontPage World) use Included Pages.  The banner ad you see between the two bars above you, that is on an included page as well.   

Smart Zones - The official definition from Commission Junction is "A SmartZone is a “space” that you reserve on your site and then drop products, banners, and other links into easily though your Account Manager. This prevents you from having to replace each merchant link manually in your HTML."  For the time being, that is a sufficient explanation.

The second step is in getting an account with Commission Junction.  If you have already done this, great.  If you haven't: Join the Commission Junction affiliate program!

The third step is in making sure that you have a copy of FrontPage 2000.  If you don't, our FrontPage 2000 page can set you up there.

In short, the process of combining the best of FrontPage Technology with the best of Commission Junction technology is in:

Creating a template-based Web site that uses SmartZones for Advertising

Remember that one, it will take you far.  How do you do that?

Click here for Part 2.