Transcript FrontPage 2003

Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Illustrated Complete
Creating a
Frames Page
Objectives
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Understand frames
Create a frames page using a
template
Set pages to open in a frames page
Create a new page in a frames page
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Objectives
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Set multiple pages to open in a frame
Create a new frame in a frames page
Delete a frame from a frames page
Set frame properties
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Creating a Frames Page
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A frames page contains two or more
windows (or frames), each displaying
a separate Web page
The Web pages in each frame can
contain their own scroll bars
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Understanding Frames
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A frames page, or a frameset, is a single
Web page that divides the browser
window into two or more windows
 Frames pages do not contain content only the specifications to create the frames
within it
 Use a frames page when you want each
frame to display content independent of
the other frames
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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When you open a frames page in a
browser, first the browser opens the
frames page, then the pages set to open
in the frames
 If the frames page contains three frames,
the browser is really displaying four Web
pages - the frames page and one page in
each frame
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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Frames page in a browser
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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Advantages of using frames pages:
– Allows you to provide uniform information,
such as navigation options or a company logo
– Hyperlinks in one frame might link to other
pages in the Web site; hyperlinks in another
frame might open pages in a different frame
– You can set a page displayed in a frame so
that it never changes, insuring that information
is always visible
– A frames page can load faster than a Web
page that doesn’t contain frames
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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Disadvantages of using frames pages:
– Some browsers cannot display frames pages
– The main frame appears in less space than
what is provided by a full browser window
– Frames pages can be overwhelming to
viewers if poorly designed
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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When a frame is selected, a blue border
appears inside the frame’s border
 After creating a frames page, two buttons
appear in each frame:
– The Set Initial Page button lets you set
an existing Web page to open in the
frame when the frames page opens
– The New Page button creates a new
page and at the same time set it to
open in the frames page
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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Understanding Frames (cont.)
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Pages used in a frames page are like any other
Web pages, but most are designed for use only in
a frames page
Each Web page in a frames page has a filename
and a title
Only the title of the frames page appears in the
browser’s title bar when the frames page is open
When the content of a Web page displayed in a
frame exceeds the space available, scroll bars
appear on the frame
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Creating a Frames Page Using a
Template
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The easiest and fastest way to include a
frames page in a Web site is to create it using
a template
A frames page template is a Web page that
contains the specifications for the individual
locations and sizes of the frames in a frames
page
When you create a frames page using a
template, FrontPage assigns each frame in
the page a name and creates its initial size
and location in the frames page
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Creating a Frames Page Using a
Template (cont.)
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FrontPage includes many different
frames page template to create frames
pages with two, three, and four frames
 Templates include different orientations
for the frames
 You should select the frames page
template that most closely matches the
arrangement of information you have
planned
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Creating a Frames Page Using a
Template (cont.)
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Frames pages templates
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Setting Pages to Open in a
Frames Page
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When you create a frames page, each
frame contains the Set Initial Page and
New Page buttons
 Use the Set Initial Page button to open
an existing Web page in the frame
 Use the New Page button to create a
new Web page in a frame
 You don’t usually add pages appearing
in a frames page to the Web site’s
navigation structure
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Creating a New Page in a
Frames Page
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When you open the frames page in a
browser, the browser opens a page in
each frame
 The initial page that opens in each
frame might be one that already exists
in the site or a new page
 You use the New Page button to create
a new page in a frame
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Creating a New Page in a
Frames Page (cont.)
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You save the page with a filename and
page title
 A new page that you create and set to
open in a frames page appears in the
Folder List with other pages
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Creating a New Page in a
Frames Page (cont.)
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New Web page created in the main frame
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Setting Multiple Pages to Open
in a Frame
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You can set a link in any frame to open
a new page in:
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The same frame
A different frame
A new browser window
The same browser window (which
replaces the frames page)
A target frame is the frame in which to
open a new Web page
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Setting Multiple Pages to Open
in a Frame (cont.)
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Target Frame dialog box
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Setting Multiple Pages to Open
in a Frame (cont.)
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Common frame targets
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Creating a New Frame in a
Frames Page
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You can split an existing frame into
two frames
You can split horizontally or vertically
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Deleting a Frame from a Frames
Page
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When you delete a frame from a frames
page, you are only deleting the HTML tag
that creates the frame
 You are not deleting the Web page that
appears in the frame
 To delete the page itself, you must delete it
in Folders view
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Deleting a Frame from a Frames
Page (cont.)
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Delete frame command
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Setting Frame Properties
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You can change the properties and
behavior of a frames page and its frames
You can change the default frame name
You can set a different Web page to open
in the frame when the frames page first
opens
You can change the frame’s width and
height
You can change the frame’s margins
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Setting Frame Properties (cont.)
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The frame margin is the amount of space
between the inside border of the frame
and the text or picture(s) in the frame
 The default setting for a frame is to permit
users to resize the frame in the browser by
dragging the frame’s border with the
pointer
 You can turn off this option using the
Frame Properties dialog box
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Setting Frame Properties (cont.)
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You can set the frames page so it does not
display borders
 There are three options for displaying the
scroll bars in a frame:
– If Needed
– Never
– Always
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Setting Frame Properties (cont.)
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Frame Properties dialog box
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Summary
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You can set the page to be displayed
in a frame using the Set Initial Page
button
You can create a new page to be
displayed in a frame using the New
Page button
You save new pages in frames the
same way you save any new Web
page
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Summary
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You can set multiple pages to open in
a frame
A target frame is the frame in which
to open a new Web page
You can split an existing frame into
two frames
You can delete a frame from a
frames page
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Summary
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You can change the properties and
behavior of a frames page and its
frames
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