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Snippet Management made EASY - 7/16/2002 13:41:36
OK - I simply MUST share this with you all!
You know how when you are looking for something to help you out with a specific, redundant task? You look everywhere, pour through the forums and newsgroups, download and install what you think you might be able to fudge to do what you want it to do, just to find that it' s more of a pain than the way you' ve been doing things all along.
I' ve been searching high and low for a add-in for FrontPage to do script management, or rather to keep tabs on redundant pieces of code snippets that I usually paste into all my pages. Just something so I wouldn' t have to open multiple notepad docs just to do a few simple things (and even not so simple). I even looked to see if the Microsoft Script Editor could take care of this task, allowing me to have everything right there at the click of a mouse. Well, that wasn' t going to happen...
I came across this handy little piece CastlePaste Pro ( www.castlesoft.co.nz/Home.htm). Hands down the BEST investment I' ve made. This neat little program sits in the title bar of whatever window is active - oh, did I mention you' re NOT limited to using this only with FrontPage!!! You can use it with whatever app, document, email etc. It' s always right there at your disposal.
This of course is a great benefit of this particular program, because, if you are like many of us out there, you use different apps to do different things, such as using DreamWeaver and FrontPage. Many people use both. With CastlePaste Pro, you can have all of your scripts at your disposal, regardless of the app you are in. Pretty Sweet.
Unlike another solution a recently came across, this app is NOT limited to only 25 Paste Items. In fact, there is NO LIMIT to how many items you can paste from this program. And, you can categorize them into folders! Nice...
Here are a couple examples of how I use this tool:
- Add " website by ABC WEBDESIGN" complete and formatted the way I usually add it, including a hyperlink to my homepage.
- Add the copyright © - Now I don' t have to hunt it down when I need it.
- Add Greek, or filler text paragraphs
- Add quick Comment block tags
- Create a standard CSS that I then modify for each specific site. This give me a jumping off point.
- Create a standard contact form, with fields and formatting. All I have to do is update the target email address. (I only use this one with FrontPage though)
- Add a Page Redirect Script.
- Add a Last Modified script.
- Add a Close Window script with a text link (I have a separate one for a button link)
- Add Java " Back" buttons (again, I have a second one for text only)
- Add a Print Page button
- Create a Pop-UP
- Add a Jump To navigation box
- Add a HyperScroller
and more, including a couple commercial scripts that I use regularly.
I also use it to paste entries into proposals, add different signatures as needed, easily create signature blocks for proposals or disclosures, you name it. Plus, you can paste Graphics too! But I mainly use it as a script manager.
I don' t know - I just can' t rave enough about this handy app. I doesn' t do a lot, but what it does - WOW!
Get more info from their website at www.castlesoft.co.nz/Home.htm
-- R
< Message edited by Spooky -- 7/15/2002 5:36:30 PM >
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RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/16/2002 17:41:21
Gil,
Dreamweaver has this feature too, but since I don' t use either, I thought it to be sweet.
I had also come across a similar product from a company called Office Power, but it limited you to only 25 snippets and only worked within FrontPage. With CastlePaste, I can use it (along with the same " snippets" ) in FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Homesite, Hotdog, whatever.
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RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/16/2002 22:15:56
Sorry, I still don' t see it - The same thing in Homesite is one click!
From UltraEdit it' s " select all" - " copy" - " paste" That' s three I think?
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Just wanted to pass along this find so others might benefit if they saw the need
So, that' s why you had your affiliate code in the original URL?
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RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/19/2002 2:41:00
Microsoft' s Code Librarian does the trick for me.
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RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/19/2002 4:24:56
you can still do this in Dremaweaver, and its even more advanced in MX
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RE: RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/19/2002 7:43:32
Hmmm. Gosh golly Gil, you don' t seem to have a problem with your own commercial ventures as evident in your signature, complete with a handy link to your website, where you sell your services to, uh, web developers. Tell me that doesn' t put a few $$ in your pocket.
So there used to be an affiliate link. So what. It' s gone now. Big deal.
Does it bother me that the link has been altered? Not a bit. I am not in the business of affiliate marketing or spamming or whatever you want to call it. I posted the link here and one other place. If I were out to make money, real money, on this, I' d be all over the place.
It does not change my thoughts about the product. I think it a great tool, especially for FrontPage users who do not have access to the other Macromedia products.
And remember, this is the www.frontpagewebmaster.com forum - a forum for web developers, and as evident in the name (and FAQs), FrontPage users. The product I mentioned is a great tool for those FP users, who don' t have the " Snippets" feature as found in Dreamweaver and (apparently) Homesite.
You know, you can jump on my case all you want about the affiliate thing. I' ll take the heat on that one, though I' d like you or Spooky to point out to me where it says you can' t post those type of links. No that it matters, like I said, I am not in that business. It' s just a matter of principle now.
And you can go ahead and be condescending when it comes to the way YOU do things - from the way you describe it, YOUR way is the ONLY way. (Hmmm, I don' t recall asking you, but hey, thanks for sharing).
But don' t give me any crap for wanting to help out someone else who might find what I' ve posted useful.
And lastly (and it kills me to sink this low) thank you for the inspiration to change my signature.
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RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/19/2002 9:37:19
I don' t think there is any need to get all upset here.
There is a sort of a culture here that recommendations that are made should be made independently. It is not always possible to be sure that this is the case when an affiliate code is used. Quite often it would make no real difference. For example a member of long standing could post something that had an affiliate code in it, or use something like that in their sig, though to be honest I have not seen that happen often. The key is that because the member is known and has a track record in the community the recommendation will carry weight.
When someone who is very new posts a glowing recommendation for a product, linking to it with an affiliate code, there are bound to be questions about the reasons for posting. Not everyone would recognise that the code was there so it was as a nod to other users that Gil pointed it out.
Of course it is quite possible that you posted to genuinely recommend a good product and were quite unconcerned about whether or not the affiliate code was used. However at the time you posted it you were a very new member indeed so there was pretty much no track record on which to make such a judgement. This forum has a LOT of regular users who represent very attractive market profile. It is not that uncommon for someone to show up, make a post that is blatant advertising and then disappear. Essentially that is theft of space as they have contributed nothing and no one should expect advertising to be free.
As for sigs and links. There are lots of forums that do not allow them. OutFront does, but with the expectation that those using them with act with some discretion. There are people using sigs that link to their hosting services, their design services, their templates for sale and so on. However these people do not reply to posts about hosting saying, " Leave your rubbish host and change to me!" , do not suggest in replies that they are willing to redesign or design a site for a price, or that people would be better abandoning their design and buying one of their templates.
I have known Gil, on many occasions, to become involved in giving copious advice to people about hosting issues, advice that by right they should have been getting from their own host, without ever suggesting that people pack them in and host with him. Though at times it must have been sorely tempting.
The sigs are there for all to see and click on if they wish. It is easy for regulars to make a judgement about what sort of quality of service or product they can expect by reading the posts of the person who owns the sig.
I hope this makes it clearer that it was not a specific attack on you. This forum has a good record on not being full of ' buy this' or ' use that' type posts, it is based on trust.
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RE: RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/19/2002 13:35:54
Thanks for jumping in Katherine, you are absolutely correct with your perspective on the affiliate issue.
Whether the code is there or not does change a word of my glowing review, and that' s what is important. You might even notice that what few posts I have made in the past don' t have a signature (including this one) by default. I was just making a (somewhat childish) point. Sorry to have subjected everyone to it.
In the interest of not perpetuating any more unproductive discussion on this, I will only respond to those questions that may deal directly with the subject matter.
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RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/24/2002 11:02:57
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So, that' s why you had your affiliate code in the original URL?
What is affiliate code?
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RE: RE: Snippet Management made EASY - 7/24/2002 12:58:06
An Affiliate Code is given to you by a company which does online sales as a way to pay out a commission for traffic you generate that turns into a sale.
In the case here, I used hxxp://xxx.castlesoft.co.nz/Home.htm?BDP as the link which used an Affiliate Code that would pay me a commission for any visitors that went to the www.castlesoft.co.nz/Home.htm page and made a purchase. The part unique to me is the " BDP" part.
The code is generated by the company paying the commission and is assigned to you. The only other company I have setup an affiliate code with has been Amazon.com - here, my code is hxxp://xxx.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/digitalworldm-20 Here the part unique to me is the digitalworldm-20.
To date, I have yet to earn a single commission. I haven' t put any effort into it. As I stated above, I' m not into affiliate marketing. Be cautious! What I did here is NOT a good example, as I may very well have turned people off to a great product - just because I used an affiliate code.
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