Where do I insert code?

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Bumping my head with FP2003...but still reading and trying! Question, after I
copy a code in Dynamic Drive, do I paste it inside the brackets of the
designated selection <head> or <body>, or, to the left, right or under these
words. And, do I paste over what I have already, or, is this a new page? Did
that make any sense to anyone? For example, if I want to do a horizonal drop
down menu across the top of the page, do I paste in one of the drop down
templates or do I create the words that I want in the menu boxes and then
paste the code? Or, second scenario, do I paste a shopping cart into the
<body> somewhere or what? I'm so confused. I keep trying to paste and then I
can't get my page back to normal and when I delete everything off the page, I
think the codes are still somewhere on the page. Is that possible. I get
error messages when I try to put info back on the pages.
 
Hmm!

I have used Dynamic Drive scripts with no real problems

I shall try to answer

First, you must be in HTML view in FrontPage. You *do not* insert the code
in the Normal view.

Where it asks you to paste inside <head></head>, just paste all the code on
new lines after the <head> tag and before the </head> tag.
Like this:
<head>
......... existing code.......
......... new DynamicDrive code ........
......... other code .........
</head>

So to answer your query *under* the <head> tag
Do not remove existing code.

Ditto for code to go in the <body>

If you still have problems, send a URL and I or another may be able to guide
you
 
Thank you! I know you're shaking your head! Another question, is the html
view the code view at the bottom of the index page...when I'm looking at my
actual website in design view?

Trevor can you recommend a book that will tell you little things like this?

Thanks again, I'm going to try this again.
 
Hi,
That's O.K. When I started I was quite confused myself.

I may be a little late in replying due to the time difference here in
Australia.

At the bottom of the screen in FrontPage (titled index.html in my case) is a
bar with the tabs Normal, HTML, and Preview. A little bit to the right of
this is a scroll bar, so if you see this, this is the line I mean.

Click on the HTML tab and the HTML code is displayed. This is where you do
the pasting (and/or typing any code for that matter)

Jim Buyens has several books mentioned here quite often.
For example
Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
and
Microsoft FrontPage Version 2003 Inside Out
I found these by this reference:
http://xmlwriter.net/books/search/1-Jim+Buyens.html

Good luck and/or good fishing
 
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