Notes for FrontPage Class

1.Getting to your website.  Click on File in the menu bar and select Open Web.  Type in folder name box http://www.nashua.edu/ your log on name/. You MUST include http:// and the final / .

2.  Remember even if you have never used FrontPage before, you know at least 40% of FrontPage because of the common Office interface. 
Hint: It is very helpful to use blank piece of paper and ‘draw’ the layout of your page.  It is good idea to ‘draw’ a map on how you want web pages to interact.  
Hint: Get organized RIGHT from the beginning.  Make separate folders for interrelated web pages and have a separate images folder.

3. You and your default.  The default.htm is your first page of your web.  DO not change the name of this page .

4. Making a new page.  Go to the menu bar, file, new and then page.

5. Saving and giving your page a Title. - File names can not have any spaces.  Make sure to fill out Page title.  THIS is what you in the blue task bar at the top of the screen.  As soon as you save, your edits are available on the web.  You can use the preview tab. 
Hint: Keep a occurrence of IE open.  When you want to see your changes, save in FrontPage and then refresh your browser.

6. Page properties. - Right mouse click on a blank part of your web page.  Select page properties.   Click on the Backgrounds tab.  This is were you can add a color or image file as a background.
Hint: Go to  http://www.nashua.edu/novakc/frontpage.htm  and you can find some free non copyrighted backgrounds. 

7.  Tables give you control over the location of features on your web page.  To create a table: Go to the menu bar, select table, insert table.  You can have multiple tables on a web page.  IF I want three columns in one part of the page and four in another, create separate tables. 
Hint: You can merge or split cells in create the exact space you want on your web page.

8. The invisible web page – How page, table and cell properties work.
Cell properties take precedence over table properties. Table properties take precedence over page properties.

9.  You can type directly into FrontPage OR you can copy and paste your text from Word.
Hint:  FrontPage handles hard carriage (enter) differently than Word by leaving more space.   Use find and replace to remove Paragraph markers and replace with manual line break  (found under Special).   

10.  Inserting images - From the menu bar select Insert, Picture and either Clip Art  or From File. 
Hint:  If you use Microsoft Clip art, try to rename the clip art to reflect WHAT the picture is.  THIS makes it much easier to trouble shoot down the road.

11. Adding external hyperlinks the easy way.  Select the text you want to hyperlink.  Go to Explorer and bring up the website.  Right mouse click on the address line, highlighting the text and copy.  Return to FrontPage and right click on text.  Select hyperlink.  Delete http:// from URL window and right mouse click and paste your address in.  Click on the save button.

12.  Adding internal hyperlinks.  Select the text you want to hyperlink.  Right mouse click on the text and select hyperlink.  Double click on the page you want to link to.

13.   ALL web pages should have some form of a navigation button or bar or border Shared borders are one way but ALL pages have to share the same border.  This can put a cramp on your creativity.   By using a table, you can create your own navigation bar that you can place any where on the web page.

14.  To log on to your website from home, click on FrontPage.  A network logon box should come up.  In the box for username, type world\username.  In the password box, type your network password. 

 

15. HAVE FUN CREATING!!!!