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Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Tutorial 6 – Publishing a Web Site
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General Template Web Pages andXP
Wizards
Name
Description
Normal Page
Creates a blank Web page
Bibliography
Creates a page with references to printed or electronic works
Confirmation Form
Creates a page that confirms the receipt of information from a user of a form, discussion, or
registration page
Feedback Form
Creates a page that collects data entered by a user, such as comments and personal information
Form Page Wizard
A wizard that creates a page containing a form with fields to collect information
Frequently Asked
Questions
Creates a page with popular questions about a topic and their answers
Guest Book
Creates a page into which visitors to a Web site can enter comments and other information
Photo Gallery
Creates a page that contains a photo gallery with pictures, captions, and descriptions that you supply
Search Page
Creates a page that accepts keywords entered by a user and then returns a list of hyperlinks to
pages with matching entries
Table of Contents
Creates a page that contains a list of hyperlinks to every page in the current Web site
User Registration
Creates a page that visitors can use to register for a restricted-access Web site
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Creating a Page that Contains a Form
• A form is a collection of form fields in a Web
page.
• A form field is a data-entry field in a form, such as
a text box, option button, check box, or drop-down
menu.
• A form handler is program that collects and
processes the form’s data in a predetermined
manner.
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Sketch of Form
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Form Design Criteria
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Adding a Form Field
• Position the insertion point where you want to insert the
form.
• Click Insert on the menu bar, point to Form, and then click
Form.
• Place the insertion point inside the form component where
the first form field should appear.
• Click Insert on the menu bar, point to Form, and then click
the desired form field to add to the form.
• Double-click a form field object to open the form field’s
Properties dialog box.
• Enter the appropriate values for the form field’s properties.
• Click the OK button.
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Option Buttons
• Option buttons (also called radio buttons) are
usually arranged in groups in a form.
• An option button group name identifies a set of
related option buttons. Within a group of option
buttons, only one button can be selected at a time.
– Use option buttons when you want to limit the user to
selecting one of a few related and mutually exclusive
choices.
– The minimum number of option buttons in a group is
two, and the recommended maximum is seven.
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Option Button Properties Dialog Box
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Drop-Down Boxes
• Use a drop-down box when you want the user to select a
choice from a list.
• Drop-down boxes should contain a minimum of three
choices.
• Arrange items in the list so that the most commonly
selected entries appear first, or arrange items in ascending
order alphabetically, numerically, or chronologically.
• The default selection in a drop-down box should be either
the most used choice or the first choice in the list.
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Drop-Down Box Properties
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Text Boxes
• A text box accepts typed information that you can
limit to some maximum number of characters.
• Use a text box when you want the user to enter
unique or uncommon information that is limited to
a single line.
• A text box can be set to limit the number of
characters that a user can enter and see at one
time.
• A text box can be used as a password field.
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Text Box Properties Dialog Box
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Text Areas
• A text area, also called a scrolling text box, has the
same basic characteristics as a text box, except
that it displays multiple lines of text and cannot be
used as a password field.
• Use a text area when you want a user to supply
information that might include more than one line.
• A text area can be set to display multiple lines of
text entered by the user. The size of the text area
should be large enough to display several lines of
text at a time.
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TextArea Box Properties Dialog Box
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Validating a Form Field
• Validation is the process of checking the information
entered by a user into one or more form fields to verify that
the information is acceptable and valid.
• If the data entered by a user fails the validation test, then
the user must change it before the browser will send the
form to the server for processing.
• Access the Validation dialog box by double-clicking the
control you wish to validate and then clicking the
Validation button.
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Text Box Validation
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Check Boxes
• A check box collects a yes/no response to a question, or
you can use check boxes in a group to let users answer yes
or no for several options.
• Use check boxes when you want a user to select from a
group of one or more independent and nonexclusive
choices.
• Set the default selection to the most frequently occurring
selection.
• Clearly label each check box in a group.
• When necessary, use a heading or text to identify the
subject of the check box group.
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Check Box Properties Dialog Box
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Push Buttons
• Push buttons (also called command buttons) are
used to submit a form to the server, to clear a
form’s fields, or to perform specific functions
programmed by the developer.
– Submit push button
– Reset push button
– Normal push button
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Push Button Properties Dialog Box
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Using a Web Server
• To function as a Web server, a computer must have
special software that works with the computer’s
operating system to receive and execute requests
for Web pages.
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
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Publishing a Web Site
• Open the Web site in FrontPage, and then change to
Remote Web Site view.
• Click the Remote Web Site Properties button on the
Contents pane to open the Remote Web Site Properties
dialog box.
• Click the option button in the Remote Web server type
section to select the type of server you are using.
• Click the Remote Web site location list box, and then type
http://localhost/ (or your server’s name) and the name of
the folder in which to store the Web site’s files and folders.
• Click the OK button.
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Publishing Changers to a Server-XP
Based Web Site
• In Design view, open the Web page that you need
to edit, make the changes, and then save the page.
• Edit and save other Web pages, as necessary.
• Click the Publish Site button on the Standard
toolbar.
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Using a Hit Counter
• A hit counter is a component that counts the number of
times a page in a Web site has been opened or refreshed
using a Web browser.
• Click the location in the page where you want to insert the
hit counter.
• Click the Web Component button on the Standard toolbar.
• In the Component type list box, click Hit Counter.
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Using a Hit Counter
• In the Choose a counter style list box, click the desired
hit counter style, and then click the Finish button.
• In the Hit Counter Properties dialog box, set the
options to reset the counter or to display a fixed
number of digits as needed.
• Click the OK button.
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Hit Counter Properties Dialog Box
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Setting Permissions for a Web Site
• Permissions allow a Web site developer to control who can
browse, author, or administer a Web site after it has been
published.
• Open the server-based Web site in FrontPage.
• Click Tools on the menu bar, point to Server, and then click
Administration Home. The Administration page opens in a
browser.
• Click the Change subweb permissions link.
• Choose the Use unique permissions for this Web site
option button, and then click the Submit button.
• Click the Administration link at the top of the page.
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Setting Permissions for a Web Site
• Click the Change anonymous access settings link, use the
page that opens to turn anonymous access off or on and to
assign users to a role (Administrator, Advanced author,
Author, Contributor, or Browser), and then click the
Submit button.
• Click the Manage users link, and then click the Add a user
link. Use the Configure Web User page to add a user and to
select a role for the user, and then click the Add User
button.
• Close the browser.
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Web Site Administration Page
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Project Six Completed
Good Luck
H. Zamanzadeh
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