Notes for Administrators FrontPage Class

1.  Announcements IS the best and easiest way to list events happening at your school.  It does not require using FrontPage.  Announcements are found directly from the Nashua School District home page by clicking on Schools and then selecting your school.  How do you create an announcement?  It is a utility off your NANWeb portal.
Hint:  From the Nashua Home page, go to Teacher & Staff down drop menu and select Internal and finally NANWeb.  You will log on using your Nashua Academic Network user name and password.  On your NAN Web Portal page, you will see a button Edit School Events. Click on this button.  IF you wish to add an event, click on New Event.  Fill out all the required fields and click on add event.   This can be ‘delegated’ to another member of your staff.

2. 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 / .

3.  IF you need help after this class, you have two on line resources:  Go to http://www.myt4l.com/  User name: mrs.novak Password: fun .  The user name is case sensitive.  Click on My Books and then click on FrontPage 2002.  All of the notes from all of the FrontPage classes I teach and many helpful websites can be found at:  http://www.nashua.edu/novakc/FrontPage/frontpage.htm

4.  Remember even if you have never used FrontPage before, you know at least 40% 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 related web pages and have a separate images folder.

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

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

7. 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 an occurrence of IE open.  When you want to see your changes, save in FrontPage and then refresh your browser.

8. Page properties. - Right mouse click on a blank part of your web page.  Select page properties.   Click on the Backgrounds tab.  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. 

9.  Tables give you control over the location of items 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.

10.  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).   

11.  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. Have FrontPage open in one window.  Have Internet Explorer open in another window.  Left click and hold down button and drag the hyperlink to the location on your webpage that you want it.

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 buttons, hyperlinks, navigation bar or shared border (small border on every page).  Shared borders are a good way but ALL pages have to share the same border.  This can put a cramp on your creativity.  
Hint:  By using a table, you can create your own navigation bar that you can place any where on the web page.