USE WEB PUBLISHING WIZARD TO PUBLISH PHOTOS ON WEB--PART 1 OF 2
Want to publish your favorite photos on the Web? All you need are some *.gif or *.jpg files and access to a Web server (typically, through an ISP or LAN that allows you to set up your own Web site). Windows 98's Web Publishing Wizard does the rest. In today's tip, we'll show you how to get everything ready. Before you do anything, you'll need to get your photos onto your computer. If you have a scanner, scan the images and save them as *.gif or *.jpg files. If not, most photo development outfits can put photos on disk for you (typically, in the form of *.jpg files). As a third option, some photo outfits have Kodak scanners (they look like copy machines) that allow you to save a picture you scan to disk.
Regardless of how you get the photos on your system, place all the images you want to publish in the same folder for convenience.
The other thing you need to do is find out some specific information about your available Web server. You'll need to know the server's address (URL), and also the address that people will use to view your pages. Ready and set? In our next tip, we'll show you how to put those photos on the Web.

USE WEB PUBLISHING WIZARD TO PUBLISH PHOTOS ON WEB--PART 2 OF 2
In our last tip, we told you how to get ready to publish your favorite photos on the Web using the Web Publishing Wizard: Make sure the pictures are on your system as *.gif or *.jpg files, and gather information about the Web server to which you'll publish the photos (its address and the address people will use to view the pages). Now, let's put those photos on the Web.
Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, Web Publishing Wizard. Click Next and type the path of the folder in which the image files are stored--or click Browse Folders, navigate your way to that file, and click OK. (If you only want to publish a single photo, you can do that too. Just click Browse Files, select the file, and click Open.) Click Next and type a name for your Web server, such as your ISP or LAN name. If applicable, click Advanced and select the protocol your service provider uses.Click Next and type the URL that people will use to access your pictures on the Web, such as "http://www.your-isp-name.com/~yourname/photos/." (The Local directory will already be filled in for you, based on your original folder or file selection.) Click Next, and if you aren't online already, the wizard will attempt to connect you. Based on the protocol you selected previously, you'll be asked to enter information about your Web server. For example, we were asked to enter the FTP server name. Click Next, click Finish, and the wizard publishes your files! Surf over to the correct address and see for yourself!
Want to put captions under your photos? Then you'll need to create HTML pages. In our next series of tips, we'll show you how to do that using FrontPage Express.

INTRODUCTION TO FRONTPAGE EXPRESS
In the previous series, we showed you how to publish *.gif and *.jpg files to the Web using the Web Publishing Wizard: Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, Web Publishing Wizard; then follow along
with the wizard, entering all of the necessary information for your Web server (typically provided by your ISP or network administrator) and pointing out the file(s) you want to publish. The Web Publishing
Wizard is a great place to start. But if you want to publish more complete pages--text, photos, and so on, all on the same page--you'll need to create HTML documents. In this series, we'll show you the basics of creating HTML documents with Windows 98's FrontPage Express.
Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, FrontPage Express, and you'll see a window that looks like a word processor. This is where you're going to create your Web pages by adding elements to the page.
You don't have to worry about any coding, because FrontPage Express automatically converts everything to HTML behind the scenes.
Can't wait to get started? Stay tuned--in the rest of this series, we'll show you how to add some basic elements, such as pictures and hyperlinks, to your HTML page. We'll also show you how to format a
page's background and text, for a bit more character than the default black and white. Finally, at the end of this series, we'll show you how to publish your creation on the Web

FRONTPAGE: ADDING PUBLISHED IMAGE TO HTML PAGE
In previous tips, we've shown you how to publish *.gif and *.jpg files to the Web using the Web Publishing Wizard: Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, Web Publishing Wizard; then follow along with the wizard, entering all of the necessary information for your Web server (typically provided by your ISP or network administrator) and pointing out the file(s) you want to publish. Photos are a great place to start, but for fancier Web pages with text, hyperlinks, and any kind of formatting, create HTML documents using FrontPage Express. (To open this program, select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, FrontPage Express.) In this series, we're discussing the basics of creating HTML documents with Windows 98's FrontPage Express. Today, we'll cover adding pictures to a page.
One quick thing before we get started: This tip assumes you've already used the Web Publishing Wizard to publish any pictures you plan to use. You'll need to publish the pictures at some point anyway--otherwise, you'd see nothing but an image reference on your published HTML page.
So, assuming you've already published the images, go online if you aren't already. Inside your FrontPage Express document, place the cursor exactly where you'd like to insert the picture--before, after, between text, wherever--then click the Insert Image icon (it looks like a stamp with mountains on it). Select From Location, type the picture's URL, and click OK. Now just wait as FrontPage Express downloads the picture and displays it on the page.
In our next tip, we'll show you how to add a picture you haven't yet published.

FRONTPAGE: ADDING UNPUBLISHED IMAGE TO HTML PAGE
In previous tips, we've shown you how to publish *.gif and *.jpg files to the Web using the Web Publishing Wizard: Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, Web Publishing Wizard; then follow along with the wizard, entering all of the necessary information for your Web server (typically provided by your ISP or network administrator) and pointing
out the file(s) you want to publish. Photos are a great place to start, but for fancier Web pages with text, hyperlinks, and any kind of formatting, create HTML documents using FrontPage Express. (To open this program, select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, FrontPage Express.) In this series, we're discussing the basics of creating HTML
documents with Windows 98's FrontPage Express.
Want to add a picture you haven't already published (to the Web) to your HTML page? Assuming the image you want to use is on your system, in your FrontPage Express document, place the cursor exactly where you'd like to insert the picture, then click the Insert Image icon (it looks like a stamp with mountains on it). With From File selected,
click Browse, select the desired .gif or .jpeg file, click Open, then click OK.
The image appears on the page, but you still need to do two more things. One, you need to publish that image to the Web using the Web Publishing Wizard (otherwise, people viewing the page will see nothing but a placeholder). Two, you need to tell FrontPage Express where to find the picture: Right-click the image (on the page) and select Image
Properties. Under Image Source, type the URL of the already published image. Click OK, and assuming you're online, FrontPage will download the image from the specified URL.
In our next tip, we'll discuss adding hyperlinks.

FRONTPAGE: ADDING HYPERLINKS TO HTML PAGE
In previous tips, we've shown you how to publish *.gif and *.jpg files to the Web using the Web Publishing Wizard: Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, Web Publishing Wizard; then follow along with the
wizard, entering all of the necessary information for your Web server (typically provided by your ISP or network administrator) and pointing out the file(s) you want to publish. Photos are a great place to
start, but for fancier Web pages with text, hyperlinks, and any kind of formatting, create HTML documents using FrontPage Express. (To open this program, select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, FrontPage Express.) In this series, we're discussing the basics of creating HTML documents with Windows 98's FrontPage Express.
Surely, you've seen a Web page that says something to the effect of, "Click HERE for a really neat picture." You just add one or more links to your page, so that when a person visiting the page clicks on a
word, he or she jumps directly to another page.
Open FrontPage Express to your HTML document. Assuming you've already typed the text with which you want to associate a specific URL (in our example, the word "HERE"), select that text and click the Create Or Edit Hyperlink icon. Select the Hyperlink Type, if necessary, enter the URL the hyperlink should point to, and click OK. Back on your HTML page, the hyperlink now appears in blue, underlined text. It's a link!
In our next tip, we'll discuss changing the page background.

PUBLISHING FRONTPAGE HTML PAGE TO WEB
In this series of tips, we've shown you how to create some basic HTML documents using FrontPage Express: Select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, FrontPage Express; then type some text, add graphics and hyperlinks, and format your text and background. Now that you've actually finished your HTML page, and it looks exactly as you want it to on the Web, it's time for the fun part--publishing it.
(Note: This tip assumes you've already defined a Web server using the Web Publishing Wizard, as described in a previous tip. As a quick review, select Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, Web Publishing Wizard; then follow along with the wizard, entering all of the necessary information for your Web server.)
To publish your page, first select File, Save, and type a title for the page. Under Page Location, type the address to which you'd like to publish the page, such as "http://www.webservername.com/~yourname/yourpage.htm." (Note: The address may be different from the address other people will use to view the page.) Click OK, enter your username and password if prompted to do so, then click OK.
FrontPage Express will now display a message telling you it is publishing the page. When it finishes, point your Web browser at the corresponding URL and bask in the glory of your HTML expertise!

CHANGE BACKGROUND OF FOLDER WINDOW
When you display a folder's contents inside an open window, by default, you see them against a white background (unless you've chosen a color scheme with a different window color). Bor-ing. As with the
Windows 98 desktop, you can apply any image or wallpaper to that window background. But wait, there's more: That background is unique to that folder. If you wanted to, you could apply a different background to every folder on your system!
Open any folder window you want to customize and select View, Customize This Folder. Select Choose A Background Picture, then click Next. Select any of the files in the resulting list; or click Browse,
select an image, and click Open. Click Next, click Finish, and check out that icon backdrop!

CHANGE ICON LABELS IN FOLDER
In our last tip, we showed you how to change the background of an individual folder window: Open the folder, select View, Customize This Folder, select Choose A Background Picture, select an image, click Next, and click Finish. Icon labels don't quite match your selection? Then change them.
Follow the steps above to select a background image. Before clicking Next, under Icon Caption Colors, click the box next to Text and select a color. For example, you might select white or yellow to contrast with a dark background. Click OK, and if desired, click the check box next to Background and choose a color for the box that surrounds each icon label. Click Next, click Finish, and you won't even recognize that folder!

EXPLORER WINDOWS OFFER BACK AND FORWARD BUTTONS
As anyone who's ever browsed the Web knows, you can go back and forth through the pages you've visited using the Back and Forward buttons at the top of your browser window. With this in mind, take a look at the toolbar of any Explorer window (with the Standard Buttons toolbar displayed). Look at that--Back and Forward buttons!
Try them out as you're navigating your way through windows; they work the same way as other Back and Forward buttons. Use them to go back the way you came (and forward again) without all that unnecessary double-clicking. You can even jump multiple windows back or forward by clicking the down arrow next to the appropriate button and choosing a destination in the list. Again, just like a browser window.

ACCESS MY DOCUMENTS FROM START MENU
Did you just select Start, Documents only to discover that the file you wanted has been bumped from the list? Don't worry, you can access all of your files from the Documents list (assuming you store your
documents in My Documents). Inside the Documents list, select the top dog, My Documents. There you have it--instant access to all your data files.

REMOVE FOLDER CUSTOMIZATION
A few tips ago, we showed you how to customize a folder's background and icon labels: Open the folder, select View, Customize This Folder, select Choose A Background Picture, select an image and adjust your Icon caption colors, click Next, then click Finish. What we forgot to mention was that you can undo these changes just as easily as you made them.
To remove all customization options from a folder, open the folder window, select View, Customize This Folder, and select Remove Customization. Click Next twice, click Finish, and that window is back to plain ol' black on white (or whatever colors are defined by your current color scheme).

USE F11 TO SWITCH BETWEEN FULL-SCREEN AND WINDOWED EXPLORER VIEW
In our last tip, we told you how to switch any Explorer window to full-screen view: Assuming the window is not currently maximized--in other words, you can see all of its edges--hold down the Ctrl key as you click the middle caption button in the window's upper-right corner.
Ready to jump back to the window you started with? Press F11. And by the way, you can press F11 (as an alternative to Ctrl and the middle caption button) to view any window in full-screen view.

AUTO HIDE MENUS IN FULL-SCREEN VIEW
In a recent tip, we showed you how to enlarge any Explorer window to full-screen view: Assuming the window is not currently maximized--in other words, you can see all of its edges--hold down the Ctrl key as you click the middle caption button in the window's upper-right corner. Still not enough viewing space for you? Try hiding the toolbars, too.
Right-click a blank area on the menu bar (at the top of the screen) and select Auto Hide. The menu and button bars disappear from view. If and when you need them, move your mouse pointer up to the top edge of the screen, and they slide back into place.
(Tip: To undo this option, right-click the menu bar and deselect Auto Hide.)