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Here's just some of the Feedback comments we've received recently.
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Chris writes...
RE: Creating Feedback Forms for Your Website Using FrontPage
Hi Linda, I was reading your tutorial.
I followed the tutorial as i really needed a form for my website, I followed it through and created a form but when i tried it on my site and filled all the boxes in on the form I clicked on the submit button and it came back with my site address and the text:
--WEBBOT-SELF--
after the site address, which I thought was odd, It kept saying that even though I tried and tried and still no luck.
Is there any way of you trying to tell me what is going on as I really need a form for my website,
Thanks alot,
Chris.
Linda Johnson, article author, writes...
I've never seen that particular error, Chris. Are you using some form of FTP program to upload your FrontPage pages instead of using FrontPage to PUBLISH the site? Forms made in FrontPage will only work if the site is published with FrontPage, not simply uploaded using FTP.
If you are in fact publishing the site with FrontPage, then the only other thing I can think of is, I suspect the form is looking for the results of your form on your hard drive instead of on the website and therefore, can't find it.
Try this: Right click on your form in FrontPage and choose "Form Properties"...at the top of that box where it says "File name", make sure you do not see a path to a file or folder on your hard drive. For example, if you see something like C:\\My Documents\WebsiteName\form_results.htm, you need to change that to simply form_results.htm
If that isn't what's causing the problem, look at everything else in that Form Properties box and be sure NOTHING is pointing to your hard drive.
Hope this helps...if not, then I'm really not sure what is causing the problem.
Good luck.
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Linda F. Johnson
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
Further reply from Chris...
Hi again Linda,
Yes I am using Core FTP to upload my form to the server, i dont know how to upload them using frontpage! There is no link of what I can see pointing to my Hard drive.
Further reply from Linda...
Sorry, Chris. FrontPage forms will not work unless you PUBLISH the site ....you cannot do this using FTP. In order to Publish using FrontPage, your domain server must have FrontPage extensions installed....then you need to create a web in FrontPage and use the File>Publish option. If you don't know how to do any of this, then I really can't teach it all to you via email....you will have to get a FrontPage book, or take a FrontPage class or find a FrontPage tutorial on the net. Do a Google search on FrontPage and you should find lots of info. I'm sure there is proper code you can manually use to create forms in FrontPage without publishing....but that's not what my article was about....my article was about using FrontPage's built-in Forms utility and that requires that you publish the site to a host that has FrontPage extensions installed.
Wish I could help you more, but you will have to find someone else who knows more about manually creating forms....since I have FrontPage, I just do it the way I teach in my tutorial.
Good luck
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Linda F. Johnson
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
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Harry writes...
RE: Hard and Soft Asset Management with VBScript!
Thank you for writing and freely distributing Domain report Manager. Our enterprise is tiny - less than 200 machines. We actually bought BindView and have found it so incredibley dificult to use (and so very unreliable) that it got abandoned by the department as a whole, despite the hefty price tag.
Anyway, I am tasked with sorting out the terrible "pile o' licenses" and figuring out which machines have MS Office installed, versus individual apps. It took your Domain Report Manager about 6 minutes to sniff out the whole network and even provided me with a handy list of machines the domain knows about, but were inaccessible at the time - a feature that NONE of the inventory programs I have ever used provided.
I am an amatuer VB coder myself (with a heavy focus on asp/asp.Net) and specifically sought a VBS solution so that I could poke at the code. I am really glad I found yours. Not only will I get this Herculean task accomplished with ease, but I also hope to learn something from it.
I checked out Mousetrax and it turns out you are a very cool dude to boot. You are my new hero!
Thanks SO much, man!
Greg Chapman, creator of the Domain Report Manager free utility, writes...
Thanks!
I'm thrilled that you're thrilled! Your situation is exactly the one I was targeting as the script set was in development.
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
http://www.layer1wireless.com
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Cathi writes...
RE: Temp Scrubber
Dear Greg, I heard about your program TempScrubber on my local talk radio station, WTOP, Washington, DC. I am trying to download
it but it is asking me what type of program I want to use to open the file. I am not too computer saavy myself. Can you walk me through the process, including how to put the icon on my desktop? Thank you for your time and attention.
Greg Chapman, creator of the Temp Scrubber free utility, writes...
Hi Cathi!
Gaithersburg!! Well! I've spent more than a week or two there! I used to
spend a bit of time at the National Bureau of Standards in conjunction with
the USAF. It's good to hear from that area again. And more surprises; you heard about us on the radio? Wow! We're humbled.
If your Internet browser is asking you this question, perhaps we ought to
try something different. The file on the web is compressed and stored as a
ZIP file. So when we get it onto your computer, you'll need to unZip it to
get at the Microsoft Word template it contains.
So let's start by suggesting that you revisit the web page and, this time,
right click the link and choose Save Target As. The dialog box will then ask
you where on your computer you'd like to save the file. I suggest you choose
to download it directly to your desktop.
Once the download completes, double click the file and see if the system
attempts to unZip the file. If it comes back and asks you what program to
use, then you don't have an unZip program.
I do have a couple questions to ask which will help us as we go:
What operating system are you using?
Do you have Microsoft Word installed?
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
http://www.layer1wireless.com
[Editor's Note: Although the writer didn't follow up, know that WinXP has it's own unzip tool, by right clicking the file and choosing to Extract. For other versions, there are many unzipping tools available by searching the web.]
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Ali CANLIDiNÇ writes...
RE: Microsoft Project Series by Mike Glen, MS Project MVP
Good Morning Mike, I just want to thank you about your articles. Especially, the one related with Network Analysis ( http://project.mvps.org/networkanalysis.htm ) helped me to refresh my mind. I recently graduated from Mechanical Eng'rg and I have taken a course, named production plan design. In this course, PERT, CRM, Nodal Analysis were taught and with your article I can say I really learnt them. Also, your example in this article is directly related with my field, manufacturing techniques :) Thanks for articles, I continue reading them :)
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Jeremy writes...
RE: Microsoft Project Series by Mike Glen, MS Project MVP
Thanks for the article - I like the idea of User Input using a "?"
I am trying to find out if I can just select a number of tasks and then
apply a filter to show only the selected items. Is this available?
Mike Glen, author of the Project series, writes...
Thanks, Jeremy for your comment and feedback. :) You can't do this directly, but you could use a Flag field to mark those tasks you want to select (use fill down to fill consecutive tasks) then filter on the Flag.
Hope this helps,
Mike Glen
Project MVP
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A subscriber writes...
RE: Microsoft Project Series by Mike Glen, MS Project MVP
I wanted to mention how tremendously helpful your TechTrax articles
have been to me as I've been teaching myself Project - the best guidance
series I've found through various web searches. Thanks!
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Dr. Frank Kendralla writes...
Wow! Great info... I have been using computers for 20 years and have found the info on your site to be very practical and filled with times savers... This includes issues concerning to life too... The recent tip concerning ICE... wow! I put ice in my phone and passed it on to my girls immediately... (They thought it strange when I sent them a text msg... "remind me to tell you how to put ice in your phone... ha ha" In Case of Emergency...
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Kurt writes...
RE: I Forgot My Administrator Password!
I just wanted to thank the team at MouseTrax/TechTrax and Vic Ferri in particular for the paper entitled "Operating Systems - I Forgot My Administrator Password!" This is a truely helpful paper that has just saved my sanity. I found some other tips out on the WWW that called for executing some .bat files and/or downloading some kind of reboot file but warned in both cases that any EFS/encrypted files would not be recoverable unless you know the password that you have just forgotten! I just used Vic Ferri's method and found that I lost NOTHING! Moreover, I have taken Vic Ferri's advice and created a password reset disk to prevent this from happening again. I can't thank you guys and in particular Vic Ferri enough! You guys ROCK!
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Susan writes...
RE: MS Photo Editor, Wherefore Art Thou?
Herb,
Thank you so much for your article about Microsoft Photo Editor. I just
reformatted/clean installed my Dell, re-loaded Office, and was stunned to
find Photo Editor missing.
Thank you for directions on getting it back. As you said, it's just such an
easy program and yet so powerful.
Thank you for your easy-to-follow directions. I'm going to give it a shot
when I get home!
Herb Tyson, article's author, writes...
I'm glad to be of service. I can see why MS added the Picture Manager, but
zapping Photo Editor leaves a big gap in Office's graphical capabilities.
Cheers,
Herb Tyson
http://www.herbtyson.com
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A subscriber writes...
RE: Automating Image Processing using Adobe PhotoShop
What is an .EPS file, and why do I need it?
Scott Russell, article's author, writes...
EPS is a file format used to save and display
graphical or textual information. I personally don't
use this format as I prefer to work with TIF, JPEG,
GIF, CDR, and WMF.
If you would like more information about EPS, please
paste the link below into your browser address box: http://www.prepressure.com/formats/eps/fileformat.htm
Scott Russell
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A subscriber writes...
I'm a Project Manager and enjoy the articles by Mike Glen. I work them the examples he provides but it's cumbersome because I have to switch between MS Project and the online article.
When I print the articles, text (or more specificially, two or three letters) on the right-hand side is cut off. Is there a way to print the full article without losing text or is there a way to adjust my print margins when I'm printing articles from my browser?
Dian Chapman, TechTrax editor, writes...
See this TechTrax article...
Printing Articles from the Web
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=487
[Editor's Note: I'm giving up on posting stats, since it's nearly always the same top articles.]
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