c000004 nfoWorks Construction Note Construction-Material Template

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In addition to providing descriptive information and documentation, this page is also a template for construction-material pages of this site.  The template features depend on the use of Microsoft FrontPage for the development and maintenance of this material, and are only fully available when these web pages are accessed using Microsoft FrontPage.  

1. Informal Template Usage - Summary
2. FrontPage "Include Page" Components
    2.1 Title Image Link
    2.2 Construction Image Link
    2.3 "You Are Here ..." Text
    2.4 "You Are Here License" Text
3. FrontPage Style Inclusion

1. Informal Template Usage - Summary

1.1 This page can be used as a boilerplate for a full page in the default style for construction-material pages. 

• 1.1.1 This is basically for all construction-related pages except those for the elemental construction scaffolding: index.htm pages and construction.htm pages.  Anything else in a Construction Zone or under the /construction section consists of construction material.
      

• 1.1.2 This template page is itself constructed using the applicable format. 
      

• 1.1.3 The template components are used in Microsoft FrontPage for authoring-time inclusion and updating of material as Include Pages.  These templates and their elements (especially those on this page) can also be used to make new pages using copy and paste.

1.2 In Microsoft FrontPage, make a new version of this page via copy and paste within the Folder List or Web Site view.  Rename the file to reflect its intended use after customization.  There will be alterations of shortcuts to reflect the new location.  Some will need to be re-adjusted manually.   Make link adjustments while customizing the new page:

• 1.2.1 Use File | Properties ... to change the title of the page
      

• 1.2.2 Change the title in the middle table block at the top of the page.
      

• 1.2.3 Change the "anchor block" in the right corner of the page top to provide the full context of the present page along with a version number and time stamp.  Relative links to the current and superior directories are used to make it easy to reuse the same URLs in clones of the pages and to work properly on mirrors of the site.
      

• 1.2.4 Keep the Hard Hat area image inclusion in the lower-left corner, delete it, or replace it as appropriate, depending on where the governing construction structure page is situated (see 2.2).
      

• 1.2.5 Keep the "You are ..." text in the middle block, supplement it, or replace it as appropriate.  This is where intellectual-property notices are also placed.  Be careful to employ the appropriate notice and links for the page being constructed (see 2.3 and 2.4).
      

• 1.2.6 Update the creation information in the lower right section of the page-bottom banner.  After the first check-in of the page under source control, use that first check-in date as the new creation date.
      

• 1.2.7 Delete this text section and the box at the top of the page, replacing it with your own page content.
      

• 1.2.8 Introduce your own version history annotations, if desired.  Make sure the links in the history are as you want them to be.

1.3 The title block -- the table at page top -- can be copied by itself to produce a title block with the correct styles and the automatic inclusion of the correct left-section image for this site.  It will be necessary to edit the anchor-block information on the right-hand side.

1.4 The construction block -- the table at page bottom -- can be copied by itself to produce a construction block with the correct styles,  the automatic inclusion of the left-side Hard Hat image and link, and the "you are navigating ..." information in the center section of the block.  The right-side material will be updated automatically by Microsoft Visual Source Safe, if used, but the "created ..." line must be updated manually.  It is usually necessary to replace the Hard Hat image and link for pages not in the same folder as this template.

1.5 The body style -- the background, font, and link colorings, must be manually edited into the <body stylesrc="c000004e.htm"> tag with recent versions of FrontPage (e.g., 2003 and later).  Although the use of a private tag for this purpose is deprecated and styles should  be applied instead, we are preserving this practice for use with older versions of Internet Explorer.  (At this time, no significant use of styles is employed in the ODMdev pages.)  Because Internet Explorer 8.0 is going to be standards-compliant by default, we expect that an alternative to the non-standard stylesrc attribute will be needed.

1.6 There are other ways to use this template using Visual Source Safe sharing into locations that are synchronized with a web server having FrontPage extensions.  Also, there are better ways to make full-page templates.  This information is provided as a provisional solution until there is a smoother general technique in place.

2. FrontPage "Include Page" Components

These features are not visible on the published versions of these web pages.  The effect of the components will be present, but the components themselves are only reflected on published pages in custom use of contents.   Access of the pages by Microsoft FrontPage re-establishes the separately-included components, if they are accessible.

3. FrontPage Style Inclusion 

The FrontPage Style inclusion used for this and other Construction Structure pages is in page c000004e.htm.  That page describes how the background and basic styles are set on that page and how they are used from other pages.  If manual editing is required, use <body stylesrc="c000004e.htm"> with the proper path to the style source.

Note: This is a non-standard HTML feature and it will not be supported by all browsers, including the default standards-compliant mode of Internet Explorer 8.0.  An alternative provision is not yet in place.

0.00 2008-04-06-09:05 Describe the construction-material inclusion and template elements

The current development state of the present material is accounted for in a separate diary & job jar page.

You are navigating nfoWorks construction material. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

created 2008-02-19-17:47 -0800 (pst) by orcmid $$Author: Orcmid $ $$Date: 17-06-14 20:21 $ $$Revision: 124 $