Zoicks.Com - FrontPage for Auctions Help Page

A special thanks goes to everyone's favorite Photos/HTML expert, Bob Bull (Bobal), who originally posted this helpful tip.

I use FrontPage 98 for all my auction ads and it works very well.
I do see some misconceptions and erroneous information on the boards.
At the bottom of FrontPage editor you have three modes:
Normal, HTML and Preview.
After you have your webpage the way you want, use the HTML Mode --> go to Edit --> Select all --> Copy.
Then paste to an untitled page in Notepad.
Remove everything from the very top down through </HEAD>.
Go to the bottom and remove </BODY> </HTML>.
You can then copy what is left to your description box.
However:
You will find that your URLs will use relative addressing and alt URLs.
These will have to be changed to absolute addressing,
e.g. <img src=http://samstreasures.com/images/thanks.gif>
Erase your alt URL.
These URLs will cause the dreaded broken image in FrontPage editor unless you are connected to the internet and FrontPage editor can access this picture from the internet.
You will also have to use absolute addressing with any link you reference.
Very important: Create your own templates and save them as text files and not templates.
Do not use shared borders or any FrontPage templates. Period.
It will take a little practice but learning to use this WYSWIG editor will pay great dividends.
Test all your work in Preview in Browser
I have both Netscape and MSIE browsers in FrontPage.
Above all, persevere.