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Tip 8: Instant Intranets: Insert a SharePoint Team Services-based List
SharePoint Team Services let you create an out-of-the-box intranet site, complete with preconfigured lists and document libraries you can insert into any HTML page. To insert an existing SharePoint Team Services-based list into a page, select Web Component from the Insert menu. Click List View in the Component Type scroll box, choose the style you want to use for the list in the Choose a View Style scroll box, and then click Finish. You can see an example of this in Figure 8.

Figure 8.

The Choose List dialog box opens. Click the name of the list you would like to insert, and then click OK. Click OK again to complete the list insertion.

Tip 9: Floating Text and Images: Using DIV Tags
It's easy to create Web pages with graphics or images that are placed in fixed positions on the page, regardless of what other text or images are already there. This allows visitors to your site with current browsers to take advantage of sophisticated effects that are surprisingly easy to create.

In this example, the word "Text" floats on top of more text. To create this effect, select the image or text you want to position, then click Position from the Format menu. Specify the location and size of the image and then click OK. (The number specified is the number of pixels from the top left corner of the screen.) FrontPage does the work of creating the necessary