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• Help Contents
• Outstanding Tasks
• Completed Tasks (In Reverse Chronological Order)
• List all Messages: By Thread
• Welcome to the IdeaXchg Forum

• Using Frames
  • What Are Frames?
  • Why Use Frames?
  • The Frame Link
  • The Unframe Link
  • Using the Browser's Back and Forward Commands
• Forum Contents Page
  • Contents page layout
  • Page header
  • Main navigation bar
  • Edited outline of forum contents
  • Lower navigation bar
  • Page footer
• Message Posting Page
  • Forum Message Types
    • Top-Level Messages
    • Reply Messages
  • Fields in the Posting Form
    • Subject Field
    • From Field
    • Keywords List
    • Comments Text Box
    • Post Message Command Button
    • Reset Form Command Button
  • What Happens When You Post a Message
    • Message Pages
    • Discussion Outline
• Glossary
• Developer Documentation
  • Creating a New IdeaXchg Web Site
  • Creating a New IdeaXchg Forum

• IdeaXchg Help pages and corresponding links
• create additional IdeaXchg glossary entries
• main search pages for edited content areas
• HTML Help project and compiled help files for IdeaXchg
• IdeaXchg design documentation
• adjust private forum posting forms to make From: field optional
• look into other available intra-site Search facilities, e.g. Excite
• documentation of IdeaXchg maintenance procedures
• determine safe, efficient procedure for downloading discussions
• review/assimilate old IdeaXchg task list
• generic frameset links to load page into upper or lower frame
• look into possible browser compatibility issues for #botttom links

• support both framed and unframed versions of home pages
• help on using frames
• update ix03 forum templates for recent global changes
• new conventions for Contents pages
• topical contents outline for Misc forum
• help for message posting page
• refine and generalize facilities to list messages across all forums
• create new Montage-related subwebs and forum
• document procedures for creating new IdeaXchg web sites
• create additional forums under the VFPUtils subweb
• provide an easy way to see all recent messages in VFPUtils
• remove generic IdeaXchg tasks from the XFormDBF task list
• define templates for creating new IdeaXchg forums
• consistent references to "Forum" in left side of page headers
• supply an Unframe link in bottom navigation bars
• unframed TOC pages should still have a live Unframe link
• clarify navigation bar used for placeholder messages & articles
• substitute "Discussion" for "Threads" in main navigation bar, etc.
• supply links to unframed forum Contents pages on home pages
• new conventions favoring unframed browsing mode
• naming changes for the private VTIssues site
• make another pass at consistent keywords in posting forms
• introduce new private password-protected BOSS web site
• avoid dependence on default.htm vs index.htm for links to home
• introduce new private password-protected VTIssues web site
• switch from NT to Unix-based web hosting on new WPP
• eliminate malfunctioning Bottom/Unframe from Search pages
• adjust conventions for link to Contents frameset in headers
• add a link to the home page in all main navigation bars
• use an include file for boilerplate on the Welcome page
• cleanups to forum Posting pages
• cleanups to posting Confirmation forms
• help for the forum Contents page
• eliminate pointless link to self in main navigation bars
• glossary page
• Miscellaneous Forum
• new IdeaXchg forum adapted from VFPUtils template structures

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