Intermediate FrontPage – Enhancing Your Webpage
By Claudia Novak
Note: Examples given as hyperlinks.
 

Adding components. (From the Menu bar select - Insert – Components).  Can also be accessed by going to View – Toolbars – Inserting Components and getting the floating toolbar. 

Hit counter – Track how many visitors you have to your web page.  Hit counters only appear in the browser.  You know that your hit counter is working IF the number gets larger after hitting the refresh button.  (Bottom of Page)
Hover buttons – Displays different effects when you put your mouse over them.  Hover buttons do not work with older version of Internet Explorer and Netscape Explorer.  (Virtual Fieldtrip 2000 - 2001 ).
Marquee –  A scrolling line of text across the screen.  Keep them simple. (Top of Page)

Enhancing Images (From the Picture bar at bottom)

Importance of resample – Resampling greatly reduces the size of an image file when you reduce the size of the image.   Using Picture Properties is the easiest way to make pictures the same size.  
Bevel – (Rainforest - Bevel)
Washout – Fades image.
Transparent color – Changes image to GIF format.   Click on the color/area you want to make transparent.   If you select white for example, it will make ALL the white transparent. 
Cropping, rotating, contrast and brightness – These functions work the same as in other Office products.
Sending back and forward – Moves an image one step backward of forward in browser. 
Creating Thumbnail images – Click on image and then select Auto Thumbnail from Picture bar.   Also see separate handout.  (Everglades - Thumbnail)

Animating Page Content (Click on Bees)

          Page transitions (Format – Page transition) – Very similar to PowerPoint. 
          DHTML animation of objects  (Format – DHTML)

Hints:

1.  The ‘How and why’ of creating templates.  Can be formal templates saved as templates or simply a page saved with a particular layout. 
2.  More information on tables and their usage, such as having more than one on pages and the article “Piecing together the Web page Puzzle”.
3.  Stretching your fonts using character spacing.
4.  Get organized RIGHT from the beginning.  Make separate folders for interrelated web pages and have a separate images folder for each grouping.  Rename images from clip art so the names actually reflect what they are.  This makes it easier when troubleshooting or deleting images. 
5.  My pet peeve:  Make sure to fill out Page title when you save.  THIS is what you in the blue task bar at the top of the screen. 
6.  If you are using Word, remove the hard carriage returns and replace with a soft carriage return (shift enter).  FrontPage handles the hard carriage return (leaves more space) different than Word.  Using “find and replace” does this quickly.  Use ‘More’, Special Characters, Paragraph Mark – Replace with Special Characters, Manual line break. 
7.  Adding hyperlinks the easy way.  You can drag and drop a page from within your website OR have both FrontPage and IE  open.  Go to the URL you want to link to and drag and drop (using the big blue E) to the webpage and location you want in FrontPage.   
8.  To have a hyperlinked URL appear in a new window, go to hyperlink properties.  In the Target frame box, select new window (FrontPage Classes scroll down to Notes for Intermediate FrontPage).