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Adding Expedia Maps to Your Web Site Based on Windows SharePoint Services

You can quickly and easily insert a map or a link to a map from Expedia into your Web site based on Windows SharePoint Services.  For example, this map of the area around the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota came from Expedia and is available through FrontPage 2003.

A map of Mall of America (shopping center), Bloomington, Minnesota. Click to see the map on MSN Maps & Directions

To add a link to an Expedia map or to insert a map from Expedia into your site, open the Web site based on Windows SharePoint Services in FrontPage 2003 and do the following:   

  1. In the Folder List view, double-click on the page in which you want to insert the map. This opens the page.

    Note:  If you don't see a list of file folders and files, select Folder List from the View menu.
     
  2. Position your cursor where you want the map to be and then click to place the insertion point. 

    Note: Do not click directly on a List in a SharePoint Services-based Web page because that will select it and further insert actions will replace the list with your text.  To position your cursor just before a list or other element on the page, click on that element and then press the Home button on your keyboard.
     
  3. Select Web Component from the Insert menu and under Component Type, scroll down to Expedia Components.   
  4. Select Link to a map if you want to link to the most current map, or select Static map if you want the map to be inserted directly into your page (see example at the top of this page with link MSN Maps and Directions). 


     
  5. Click Finish and complete the Static Map Properties wizard.   

Tip:  You can quickly change the static map now displayed in Design view by right-clicking it, selecting FrontPage Component Properties..., and completing the Static Map Properties wizard. 

More information
For more information about Automatic Web Content, see Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Help.