Yes. virtualCART is compatible with Microsoft Front Page 2000.

There are several methods for "tagging" your pages with Front Page. We recommend you create your HTML "cart tags" using a plain text editor and then copying and pasting it into your Front Page document. Move your cursor to the appropriate location in your web document and from the insert menu, select advanced-->Insert HTML, then paste the cart tags. Below is an example.

<!--The line below lets Frontpage know not to edit anything in between the HTMLMarkup startspan and endspan. If the HTMLMarkup is not included, Frontpage will attempt to edit the cart code.-->

Yes. virtualCART is compatible with Microsoft Front Page 98.

There are several methods for "tagging" your pages with Front Page. We recommend you create your HTML "cart tags" using a plain text editor and then copying and pasting it into your Front Page document by moving to the appropriate location in your web document and inserting an HTML Markup Bot with the copied coding pasted inside.

First one gets the button graphics saved into the Frontpage folder.  This is done just by making a test page, loading in the graphics and saving the page.  it will prompt you to add button.gif to frontpage web.  Answer yes to all. This page can be later deleted, but the buttons will be ready for future use. 

All of your instructions about syntax appear to be correct and did not need any modification as far as I can tell. 

Once a product page is ready for the cart buttons, one then "cuts" and "pastes" the code as you pointed out in your instructions.  The problem with Frontpage is that the "copy" or "cut" command won't work to bring the code to the HTML page. 

The key to bringing the code into Frontpage off your web site is to use the "control-C" command, or highlight the code and then simultaneously hit the "control and "c" button. This will in effect cut the code and save it. 

One then brings up the Frontpage Editor with the product page.  You then go to the top of the menu bar and highlight the "View" command, then highlight the "HTML" command. After the HTML command is highlighted, you will see all the HTML code for the page. 

You then find the place you want to insert the code, (put code in the left side of the page) and use the "control-V" button or simultaneously hit the "control" and "V" button on the keyboard, and the code will be pasted in. 

You would then make the changes to the code as necessary, then hit the "ok" button at the bottom of the page.  You will then be brought back to the Frontpage editor and the button should appear. 

The thing about Frontpage is that it changes the code slightly when you save it.  In this comparison we show the code off the virtualCART setup page and the final saved version of the same code  in Frontpage 97. As you can see Frontpage changed the line up of the code.

virtualCART CODE:

<formaction="http://www.cartserver.com/sc/cart.cgi"method=POST>
<input type=image border= 0name=addsrc= "cartadd2.gif"width= 154height=46> 
<input type= hiddenname= itemvalue= "b-2400^widgetb^Wacky WidgetB^6.32^1"> 
</form> 

     SAME CODE PASTED INTO FRONTPAGE 97

<form 
action="http://www.cartserver.com/sc/cart.cgi"method="POST"> 

    <input type="hidden" name="item" 
    value="b-2400^widgetb^Wacky Widget 
B^6.32^1"><p><input 
    type="image" name="add" src="cartadd2.gif" 
align="bottom" 
    border="0" width= "154"height= "46"></p> 
</form>
 

The main problem here was getting the graphics to line up. I  was doing all these adjustments in the frontpage editor (not HTML page).  What you have to do here is put the cursor next to the button and use the Align Left, Center, Right buttons at the top of the Editor to center or move the graphic. You don't have a lot of choice here, just left, center, or right.  DO NOT highlight the button.gif image and try to center it, or move it with the align buttons. The key distinction is having the cursor next to the button and not highlighting the button itself.

I haven't tried any other things like Tables around the virtualCART buttons but it would probably encounter problems. 

When Frontpage makes a form with the Cart button, it looks  like this in the Frontpage Editor 

________________________________________ 
| 
| 
|button.gif
| 
| 
|_______________________________________| 

In this large rectangle area, its hard to put in extra features like tables because that whole area is a "form" and thus its difficult (although probably not impossible) to put a table in that area. Again, I have not extensively tried changing things here, but it would appear to be a difficult task. 

I hope this helps.  My advice is to keep it simple and not use a lot of extra things. Keep working with 1 product page until it works on virtualCART, then duplicate it, by cutting all the code from the page and pasting it onto the next page.

For Netscape 4.0  you can use the "View" menu at the top, then highlight "page source", and that will show all the HTML. I did make some slight changes. I changed the name of the gif buttons and changed their size. It still worked, and was a personal preference. 

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