FrontPage World Tips and Tricks
How can I quickly find the
right piece of clipart for my site?
When
you open up the Clip Art dialog box in either FrontPage 98
or 2000 (the FrontPage 2000 box is seen below), there is
quiet, again sadly underdocumented, button that can make
your life easier.
Select
the Clips Online button (represented in FrontPage 98 with
something that looks like the Internet Explorer shortcut
symbol in the lower right hand corner) to open up the Clips
Online Web Site (obviously, you have to be hooked up to the
Internet for this to work).
The
first thing the Web site will do is ask you to agree to the
EULA. Do so, or else you can't use (or see) the
graphics.
You'll
then be taken to a Web site that is updated on a regular
basis (so, if it doesn't look like the example below, please
understand) that is a searchable database of clipart,
photos, and sounds, (that are all useable as part of your
FrontPage license).
You can view clips by a
number of categories or types but the real value of this is in
the search by option. In it, you can enter a term that
you would like to see some clip art on. With the size of
this database, you are sure to find something.
Once you find something,
you can either download it by selecting the piece or check
each piece off and download a collection in a shopping cart
type of format when you are done looking.
If you select the piece
directly, you will see the categories that this piece was
listed under. You can select any of these categories to
find other like items. Use this feature if you are
looking for a collection of similar pieces.
You now have the clipart
you are looking for and it didn't take that long or cost you a
dime. Not a bad deal, eh?
By the way, don't worry,
FrontPage does all the work needed to transfer the file type
to something readable on the Web.
Microsoft updates this
thing on a regular basis so come back every once in awhile to
see what they have added.
2 other things worth
noting:
1. If you can't find
what you are looking for, consider using our Graphics
page.
2. This feature is
available in all of the Office 97/2000 programs - it is not
just limited to FrontPage.
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