Using Fusion's Photo Gallery Tool
This tutorial is an enhanced version of the article you can see in Online View. It covers the basics of using the PhotoGallery in Fusion 7. Most information in this tutorial can be applied to version 7.5 and version 8 Photo Gallery Tools..
Xara Webstyle Navigation Bars into Fusion Tutorial goal: Provide Fusion users with the necessary steps to properly introduce "ALL" Xara WebStyle Files into the Fusion Data Base in such a manner that they will become an integral part of the Fusion .nod file system..
How to rename index.html to something else in NetObjects Fusion
This tutorial will explain how to rename index.html to another name. This is useful if your web host requires the opening page to be something different than index.html..
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Relative links in NOF Explains the principle of relative links and shows you how to use them in NOF.
Tutorials for Fusion HTML Output Methods Provides step by step instructions on using the three different Fusion HTML Output Methods and how to combine them too..
How to Place a Google Map into NetObjects Fusion
This tutorial will go over how to create a google map and place the coding into your Fusion web site project so that it displays on your page..
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Create a Test Remote Profile to Test New Ideas
This tutorial will go over how to make a special testing profile that will upload your test pages to an area off of your live web site so that you can play around and not effect any live content..
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Inserting a WOW slider into your Fusion site project
This tutorial will cover how to get the code generated by the WOW slider into your Fusion web site project so that you can uses their slide shows on your web pages..
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Using the Zoom Site Search on your Web Site
How to place a site search of your web pages on your web site using the WrenSoft Zoom site search software.
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Using long URLs in links with all versions of NetObjcts Fusion
This tutorial will show you how you can use URLs or Mailto:s that are longer than what Fusion will accept in the Links Properties palettes so that you can link text or images with URLs that will not work in the normal way with Fusion..
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Iframe code generator A nice little iframe code generator that will write the proper coding that you can insert into Fusion. Just fill in the blanks for what you want and everything is done automatically for you..
Hiding Pages From Site Navigation
This tutorial will go over several methods you can use to create pages and not have them appear in the NetObjects default site navigation bar..
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Customizing Your Web Site Display with Borders and Different Backgrounds
This tutorial will show you how to place a colored border around your web site content, use a different background behind your web pages, how to add different images in the pages and in the background sorounding your pages, and how to make your pages center in all web browsers..
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How you can have every New site open the way you want it
This tutorial goes over how to create a custom template that will allow you to use your favorite CSS settings as well as allow you to select the defaults that Fusion uses for all new web sites it creates..
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Using the Google Calendar on your web pages
This tutorial will go over how you can use the online google calendar and have it display on your web pages..
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Tutorials for Creating Page Borders This tutorial provides step by step on how to create a page border for all browser widths using Fusion's Masterborders and without using masterborders..
Customer updates a web page Producing a page or pages that can be updated by the customer using Microsoft Word.
Sliced Images and External HTML Discussion of using Sliced images to save download time, and how to insert External HTML (HTML files generated by other software) in Fusion.
Alternate method autosizing web pages This is an alternate method of autosizing pages so that the tables are workable in Netscape 4.x browsers. It does require some slight editing of the published pages..
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Charlie Haywood
Creating thin borders with nested layout regions Create thin (or thick) borders by nesting two layout regions. This method is ideal when you need a border just on 2 or 3 sides..
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Charlie Haywood
Make a live link from stack pages. How to insert the proper code to make a data field a live link..
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Charlie Haywood
Popups from components. How to create popup windows from CoolMaps Dynamic Menu, custom navbars, and many other components using JavaScript and the link palette..
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Charlie Haywood
Interfacing Adobe ImageStyler with NetObjects. This method allows you to use the sliced graphics and html generated by ImageStyler and other programs with Fusion. .
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Charlie Haywood
Linking from stack pages. How to link a shopping cart, image or email address to your stack pages using external databases..
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Charlie Haywood
Create custom alt tags for navbars. Using Coolmaps Code Tweaker component you can control the alt tags for the navbars..
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Charlie Haywood
Iframe basics Gives you some basic iFrame code to get you started, and tells you how to insert the code into your NOF page. Tutorial includes an IFRAME GENERATOR that will create all of the necessary coding you will need to get the most out of your iFrames.
Iframes - Advanced Lots of information on using iframes in NOF. Includes a code generator for you to use which will give your iframe a fancy border, and lets you preview it before you grab the code.
Optimize Auto-generated Images
This article points out an easy way to shave download times for your site users by reducing the size of the Banner and NavBar graphics by 40-60%. Now that products from Fusion 7 onward lets you display even more NavBar buttons than before (with "child pages" or "javascript flyouts", this becomes a pretty important thing to consider.
Optimize Your Graphics
This article discusses why and how you should minimize download times for web graphics. It also discusses how to modify your publishing process to take advantage of SmartSaver Pro's automated batch processing of your images.
What you can do to protect your images and web site content from theft. This tutorial goes into depth on the legal side of the web. It covers copyright and intellectual property rights. It also shows you a few tricks you can use to hid your images from easy theft.
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Hidden pages If you want to create a hidden area of your site, that doesn't show up in your nav bars, here's how to do it..
An Iframe Substitute that is completely cross browser compatible You have seen Iframes and you have been told that they do not display in all browsers properly. What do you do? Here is now you can make an Iframe substitute that will show in all browsers.
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Opening a Page in a New Window with the Nar Bar Component This tutorial will walk you through how to get a button in your nav bar to open in a new window without effecting any of the other links..
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How to write a Robots.txt file and what it is used for
The Robots text file is a powerful way to control indexing spiders so that they do not index sensitive areas of your web site such as password protected pages and personal information pages. Almost all indexing bots obey the robots.txt protocol so take advantage if this on all of your web sites..
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All you need to know about meta tags
This tutorial walks you through the step by step process of adding meta tags to your web pages in NetObjects Fusion. It also covers what these tags are and what they control..
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More Meta Tags you can use on your Fusion Web Site
This tutorial goes through all of the other meta tags such as re-direct, no cache, and IE Tool Bar as well as some of the more obscure ones..
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Adding META tags in Fusion 7.5 and later versions
How to use the meta tag tool in NetObjects Fusion 7.5 and later versions. Adding meta tags is now a select from a drop box feature.
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Removing Table Border Colors once they are set
Once a table border color is set it is not easy to get the coding removed. Changing the color picker to automatic does not remove the css coding from the table tag. This tutorial shows how to remove the border color coding once it is set..
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Variable Width Pages This article describes and demonstrates two different ways to create pages in NetObjects Fusion that wrap to the browser window. It also tells you how to easily overcome the limitations of working in a ZeroMargins MasterBorder.
CSS Link Style Tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to set up Text Link properties in Style View, Text Tab, for best results..
Multiple Backgrounds with CSS
This article tells you how to set up multiple backgrounds using Cascading Stylesheets.
Colored IE scroll bars with CSS settings. This tutorial shows how to insert the CSS code for colored scroll bars for InterNet Explore browser. This method places the code into the external style sheet. .
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Charlie Haywood
Colored form elements with CSS. Create colored form elements and borders with CSS class settings. The generated code is located in the external style sheet. .
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Charlie Haywood
CSS table "rollovers" using CSS. How to create mouseovers in table cells using CSS..
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Charlie Haywood
Formatting individual text links using the custom CSS feature.
This tutorial will guide you through setting up custom linked, visited, and hover css tags so that you can format individual text links with a color, font, appearance from the default settings you have for your site project in Style View.
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Dynamic layout with css text sizing CSS layout can be tempting, but is unpredictable. The best way to fix your layout is to use Dynamic layout with px font sizes (using CSS) to specify your fonts only. This tutorial shows you how.
Dynamic Style Sheets Allow visitors to your website change the look dynamically.
JavaScript - Your Powerful Friend
Popup basics
Basic instructions on coding your own popups. How to construct, and where to put, the code. (gotFusion members should use the much more comprehensive "Popups - Advanced" members page. See below).
A JavaScript Function that will place the Current Date within a Copyright Notice on Every Page
Here is a very nice little JavaScript function that you can add to the MasterBorder of your web pages that will place a copyright notice along with the current date so that you will never again have to edit your copyright information. It will always say the Copyright 2006 (or what ever is the current date) along with your legal information..
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Clearing a form input box when selected
This JavaScript tutorial shows you how to place a script function that clears the content of a form input when it is selected. This will allow you to place text within a text area or input box and then have it cleared when the user selects that form field to enter their information.
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Drop down Go Menu where you can have some links open in a new window
Here is a tutorial that will show you how you can create a drop down go menu where you can have some links open with new windows and some open in the same browser window. This is useful for a group of links where some leave your web site but you do not want the visitor to leave, only view the content of the link in a new window and still stay at your web site..
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Writing a Targeted Rollover that Changes Remote Text not Images This tutorial will show you how you can write a targeted rollover script that will change text on another portion of the web page when a visitor moves their mouse over a link..
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Creating a browser Back Button on any page. This tutorial will show you how to create a JavaScript back button or link that you can place in a MasterBorder that will appear on every page of your web site.
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Popups - Advanced How to implement all sorts of popups, from basic, to full screen, how to close them, make them "stick", center them in your screen, make your browser fill all the available screen, and much more.
Building a Custom Go Menu that Activates Upon Selection This tutorial shows you how to create your own custom drop down go menus which activate when the site visitor makes their page selection.
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Use an iframe for your client (or you) to update Shows how to bring in a Word document saved as HTML, a pdf fle, or any browser readable file into an iframe. These files could be generated by your client and uploaded by them to give them a client changeable area. Also shows how to change the iframe content dynamically.
Placing a BOOKMARK this web site to your pages. This tutorial goes over how to place an add this web page to your bookmarks/favorites so that visitors to your web pages can place your site in their list of favorite pages. If you have a favicon this will be used beside your page description in their bookmarks.
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turtle
Closing a popup window using JavaScript This tutorial will show you how to close windows that you previously opened with your JavaScript functions.
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How to add the AtomZ site search to your Fusion Web Site This step by step tutorial walks you through the instillation of the AtomZ site search. Your site visitors will be able to search your site using keywords and phrases..
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Easy forms handler. Using BNBForm you can easily add the cgi files to the assets... no cgi or ftp experience needed..
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Charlie Haywood
8 Steps to implementing FormMail.pl FormMail.pl is the most used free script to implement a proper cross browser compatible feedback form with required fields. Learn how to create forms that work for every site visitor..
Forms and NetObjects Fusion
How to Build a Custom Mals-E Store Using Fusion Form Tools
This tutorial will go over all of the steps you need to create a custom Mals-E store from scratch. It will show you how to get the flexibility of multiple pages of items, give you a fast and ease way to add and edit your store items. This tutorial will make this option a TOP choice for selling your items..
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Using the Fusion Forms Tools
This tutorial covers where the forms tools toolbar is located and what each of the tools are and how to use them.
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Inserting Code from 123 Contact Form Into Fusion
this tutorial will go over how to create a form using the wizard on 123 contact form and how to insert the html code generated by them into Fusion..
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Printing an alternate page when the visitor click their browser print button
This tutorial will show you how to make an alternate printer friendly page so that you can print out your content cleanly. It can be used to make a Printer Form for users to print, fill in, and fax back also.
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turtle
Eliminating form spam by using a Honey Pot
Inserting a Honey Pot and Conditional Processing with ColdFusion to lock spam-bots out of your forms. You will stop being spammed from your forms when you use this method of identifying bots before they can send an email.
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Setting and Configuring a Forms Processing PHP Script
This forms processing tutorial goes over how to select and configure the PHP forms processing script to process your custom forms..
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8 Steps to implementing FormMail.pl FormMail.pl is the most used free script to implement a proper cross browser compatible feedback form with required fields.
Easy forms handler. Using BNBForm you can easily add the cgi files to the assets... no cgi or ftp experience needed..
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Charlie Haywood
Adding a Country Drop Down Selection Box that Lists All Countries. This tutorial will show you how to create a selection box that contains every country so that site visitors just need to pick from the drop down list and you will always have valid information since it is a selection and not user input.
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Adding a State Drop Down Selection Box that Lists All US States and Canadian Territories This tutorial will show you how to create a selection box that contains every State in the US, every Canadian territory, as well as all US protections (such as Guam etc.) so that site visitors just need to pick from the drop down list and you will always have valid information since it is a selection and not user input. .
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File Upload Form Fields
How to create a field in your form that allows you to browse your computer and upload a file..
3rd Party Publishing Programs and Methods
Publishing from NOF using CuteFTPPro to upload New for 2003! This tutorial tells you why you should and how to use Cute FTP Pro to upload your NOF Local Publish files to your web host.