Transcript Beginning Microsoft Front Page

Introduction to
Microsoft
FrontPage 2000
Microsoft FrontPage
– FrontPage is a popular WYSIWYG
authoring/site management package
– Combines WYSIWYG editing of pages with
site management features
– Maps out site visually in flowchart style
– Features include automatic creation of
navigation links and verifying of
hyperlinks
– Makes it easy to add interactivity (e.g
adding a hit counter, timestamp, search
facility, form)
What FrontPage Can Do
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Create Web pages
Manage Web sites
Fix broken hyperlinks
Edit art work
Create Web site maps
Edit Web site navigation structure
Download Web sites to your hard drive
Create Web pages
 Don’t need to know HTML
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(web page code)
Interface almost identical to MS Word
MS Word itself as Web page editor
 Write and “Save As HTML”
 Problems
 Pictures don’t always show
 Font styles may not look quite the same
 Can’t preview the page in Web browser while
you are creating it
Conclusion:
FrontPage is better
Toolbars: Standard
Web page editor
• FrontPage has many “Views”
• Use Page View to create and edit Web
pages
• Three “tabs” in Page View
– Normal: write/edit
– HTML
– Preview: what displays in Web browser
FrontPage Views: Page
View
FrontPage Views
Page View
Compose and edit page
Folder View
See File List
Select File to edit
Change names of files
Reports View
Site reports
Navigation View
Arrange Web site map
Map automatically sets Navbars
Hyperlinks View
See in and out links
Tasks View
Write and see To Do lists
FrontPage Views:
Navigation View
Navigation View
Ex. 3B
shared
Toolbars: Formatting
Edit art work
• Picture Toolbar (like MS Word)
– Crop
– Re-size
– Contrast and Brightness
– Grayscale
– Set transparency color
– Bevel edge
– Rotate, flip, etc.
Toolbars: Picture
Crop
Re-sample
Create a Web site
• Sketch your site on paper
• Convert your Web page to a FrontPage
“web”
• Add new blank pages to your site
• Re-arrange your Web site map in
Navigation view
• If you use shared elements, FrontPage
will fix hyperlinks to match new map
Shared Elements
• Borders
– Similar look to all pages in your site
– Logo or text placed once: appears on all
pages
• Navigation Bars
– FrontPage automatically creates links to
• other pages on the same level
• other pages on “child” level
• other pages on “parent” level
Fix broken hyperlinks
• Find broken links within your “web”
• Displays list of broken links
• Fix links right in the list
– (don’t need to search for broken link inside web page)
• Fix “globally” every page with same
broken link in one step
• Also can search and display broken
links due to changed Internet pages
Create Web site maps
• Help find pages
• Publish map to your web site
• Also can create Table of Contents for
your web site
• Note: visitors should be able to get
anywhere in your site within 3 clicks!!
Download Web sites
• Use File/Import command
• Entire Web site can be captured to your hard
drive
• Great for off-line viewing and presentations
• Can try for Web page which has layout you
like -- just download one level
– Be careful: may not work if JavaScript or other
programs are loading content from hidden scripts
on the server
– Look at the HTML source -- if tags look like
straight HTML, should be ok
More to come…
advanced FrontPage
• Good Books:
– FrontPage 2000/2002 for Dummies
– QuickStart Guide to FrontPage 2000/2002
– The FrontPage Bible
The End