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The Trellix Customer Newsletter	Issue 44 \| November 29, 2000

	In this issue...
CHECK IT OUT -- Alt text and the Forms Gem THIS JUST IN -- Trellix Web book on the way SUPPORT CENTRAL -- Newsletter template for you DAN'S CORNER -- Online auctions expand SITES OF THE WEEK -- A painter and some players WEB GEM SPOTLIGHT -- Forms are your friends WEB BUILDERS' VOICES -- Beware: fun and easy!

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Spread the word about your site -- and tell friends and family that they can build a site, too. Don't want to receive Refresh anymore? Unsubscribe here. Or let us know if you'd like to receive the plain text version. There's always something for everyone at the Trellix Cafe. From the latest web designs and Trellix upgrades, to tons of free graphics and sounds, to advice from Web experts, you can get what you need at http://cafe.trellix.com.

Check It Out

NEWBIE TIP

Even if you've made your photos and graphics as small as possible, sometimes there's no getting around slow download times. Be nice to your site visitors: add image descriptions that tell them what images will soon appear. To do this, just right-click the image and select Properties -- Image. On the General tab, type a description of your image in the Description area. Now users will see that text before the image loads. Some browsers also use this as "hover text" -- the description that pops up when you rest your mouse over the picture.

SAVVY USER'S TIP

So you've invited your site visitors to ask questions by creating an email link. Good idea -- but do you ever get emails that are either hard to understand or just plain off topic? Well, start using the Form Web Gem. With the Form Web Gem, you can ask questions and get answers back from your users in a structured, easy-to-read format.

Check out how Eagle Life Ministries uses the Form Web Gem to get users to subscribe to their newsletter -- or see the Web Gem Spotlight in this issue for more form ideas.

Have a tip you think others would like to see? Submit your tip and you could win fame, fortune, or maybe the world-famous Trellix t-shirt.

This just in...

Trellix Web book is on the way

It's always been important to us to make publishing a web site as easy as possible -- and we like to think we've done a pretty good job of that in our software. Now there's a whole new way to get help creating a web site: the Trellix Web Web Site Creation Kit. This 300 page, softcover book will be available in mid-December and covers the complete process, from idea generation to publication to ongoing care and feeding. It even comes with a Trellix Web 2.7 CD, which makes it an excellent gift for anyone who's been planning on creating a site but hasn't gotten around to it.

Get a sneak peek on the Trellix Cafe: we've made Chapter Six available as a .pdf. In it you'll find out all the best ways to promote your site.

More news and info from Trellix: http://www.trellix.com

Support Central

Believe it or not, we are now officially in the holiday season. Time to update a family tradition: instead of your annual paper newsletter, why not put up a web site to tell your family and friends what you've been up to? We've made it easy. Just download this Trellix document, edit, publish and you're done! Now your only problem is, what size gloves should you buy Aunt Agnes? Sorry, we can't help you there.

Dan's Corner

Well Dan's still busy explaining how to design better ballots, so take a look at our guest column this week: David H. Freeman from inc.com explains how online auctions aren't just for collectibles anymore. They're selling everything from moving services to real estate. See how that's starting to change the online landscape.

Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the first electronic spreadsheet, is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Trellix.

Sites of the Week

Monteferro

Here's an artist's studio that's been recreated online. Browse through a broad selection of this Spanish painter's work or read more about his background and the reasons he's driven to create such dramatic abstract art -- soon in English and Spanish.

See the profile on the Trellix Cafe.

Breminor

Welcome to Breminor, an entire fantasy world for role-playing games. From Breminor's culture, history, religion, and geography to some great stories and tools for other gamers, the authors of this site put their extensive content into an elegant design -- complete with highly customized map -- to create a really excellent site.

See the profile on the Trellix Cafe.

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Web Gem Spotlight

As we mentioned earlier, forms can be a great addition to your web site. The main idea is to help your visitors give you exactly the information you want or need from them -- in a much cleaner format than a simple email. Businesses learn this lesson quickly: you'll be much more likely to get the information you need to answer a customer's question or take their order if you use the Form Web Gem to create separate input boxes for Name, Address, Model # -- whatever the essential details are.

But forms aren't just for businesses. Use them on your band site to gather ideas for the name of your next album, on a family site to ask what people's favorite family recipe is -- on any site where you want to make it easy for readers to answer a question or give their feedback, the Form Web Gem can help get the conversation flowing.

Trellix Web Builders' Voices

"I have a wide variety of interests and Trellix Web has allowed me to build, deploy and maintain a web site while working at a full time job. People cannot believe that [my company] idea247 does not have at least 50 elves working in the background! My advice to new users is "Beware the Trellix Web addiction!" I wish I had more time 'cause there's so much more I could do with Trellix - like display my photography and art work. Trellix Rules... and that's my final answer!"
-- Ofunne Obiamiwe

"More people need to know how fun and easy it is to build a site with Trellix!"
-- Anna Maria Rivera

"Our first Trellix Web Site has recently gone 'live'. Considering we have only limited HTML and Web Design experience the results are astounding, proof, if any were needed, that Trellix Web is truly a first class product. We are particularly pleased with the way you can 'fine-tune' Trellix Web with your own HTML code, we used this facility to include two response forms."
-- Martin Boughton

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