Build Your Web Site From Start to Finish Unit 4 Microsoft FrontPage 98

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Build Your Web Site From Start to FinishUnit 4
-Microsoft FrontPage 98

• Information Technology Services
• User Services
• User Training Support

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FrontPage Explorer

• Create a Web Site
• 1) Web Design Page Design
• Analogy from architecture, your job is to
• design a building (your site), and the
  individual
• rooms (your pages).
• 2) So, 1st step in creating a Web site in
  FrontPage
• is to define a FrontPage Web.

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• After you select a location for your Web site and
  a template, files and folders will be generated ,
  FrontPage generates a Web site for you.
• The next step is to create a Home Page
• Navigation view lets you add new pages to your
  web site. You can easily create levels and child
  pages.

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• FrontPage Explorer
• Center of operations for the whole Web creation
  process. From here you can call up the FrontPage
  Editor.

• FrontPage Editor
• The Editor is where you actually edit and modify
  each individual page within your site.

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Folders View

• Most common view
• Similar to Windows 95
• Shows how entire web is organized in
  subdirectories
• Left pane displays hierarchial structure of
  folders
• Right pane displays list of files supporting the
  web

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• All Files View
• Simply lists every file.
• Navigation View
• Gives you a graphical overview of how the web is
  organized.
• Used to build automated navigation bars between
  web pages

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• Hyperlinks View
• List of files supporting the web is displayed in
  the left pane.
• Presents a graphical representation of how each
  file in your Web is linked to each other in the
  right pane.
• Hyperlink Status View
• FrontPage lets you automatically verify each link
  in your Web.
• Each internal link is checked flagged if broken
• External links are also listed and checked if
  connected to the Internet

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Themes View

• Themes View
• You can choose an entire motif for your site.
• There are over 24 themes.
• Tasks View
• A place where you can make notes of tasks to be
  completed.
• Items on the Tasks list are placed there either
  by a web wizard or by you.

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Shared Borders

• Page regions reserved for content that you want
  to appear consistently throughout your pages.
• Shared borders usually contain navigation bars.
• When you create a FrontPage Web in Navigation
  view, shared borders navigation bars are
  automatically created and updated.

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Microsoft Image Composer

• Lets you create and update graphics geared toward
  your web page.

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FrontPage Editor

• Editing Basics
• Creating Lists
• Adding Hyperlinks
• Designing Tables
• Inserting Images and Image Maps
• Working with Forms

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FrontPage Limitations

• FrontPage Extensions
• Enable you to use advanced features such as
  components and interactive forms
• Only work with FrontPage have high costs
  associated with them.
• FrontPage Components
• Hit Counter, Page Banner, Comment, Confirmation
  Field, Scheduled Image

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Choosing a Web Template

• The Following Work Well without FrontPage
  Extensions
• One Page Web A new Web -1 blank page
• The Empty Web Just a Web site, no pages
• Personal Web A four page Web for sharing your
  interests
• Import Web Wizard - Import pages from outside of
  FrontPage

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Obtaining FrontPage

• Contact the Help Desk, 325-0631
• (EPL) Express Products Lists
• http//www.its.state.ms.us/general/download.htm

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References

• Help within Microsoft FrontPage 98 Program
• The Complete Reference FrontPage 98 by Martin
  S. Matthews Erik B. Poulsen
• Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft FrontPage 98 by
  Andy Shafran

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Other FrontPage 98 Books Web Page

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 Unleashedby William R.
  Stanek and Glenn Fincher
• FrontPage 98 Bible by David Elderbrock and Paul
  Bodensiek
• http//www.microsoft.com/frontpage