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FrontPage Introduction:An introduction to the FrontPage program. Also contains a New FrontPage 2003 section.
Take a moment to get to know FrontPage a bit. Learn about the four workspaces you will be working with when building your site.
All about switching views, It's easy when you use the Views bar. Page View, Folders View, Reports View, Navigation View, Hyperlinks View, and Tasks View. You can also create your own toolbars to help organize your workspace in Microsoft FrontPage.
What do all those Icons do? Get a brief overview and learn about the ones you might want to include.
Getting to know FrontPage's keyboard shortcuts and right-clicking will help you be more efficient.
You may be interested in some of the changes you will find in FrontPage 2003. If you are upgrading from FrontPage 2000 or 2002 to 2003, some tools and icons have changed or moved.
Some items have changed in how you can view your pages. Here's a brief overview.
The process of publishing your finished pages is also much improved with a new look and feel.
FrontPage 2003 - Template Locations: Instructions for moving Template and Theme files after installing FrontPage 2003.
Editing Basics:Go here for topics to help you create your FrontPage web.
Following these easy steps will get you started on your way to a great new site.
With FrontPage there are several ways to create a page and add it to a template.
With FrontPage there are several ways to delete pages from your web.
FrontPage web-bot navigation features, with a little practice, you will be setting up effective navigation structures so your visitors will be able to see all of your pages without wandering aimlessly down empty hallways or through a maze of unrelated pages. Learn how to add navigation buttons, add a banner, or change the names on navigation buttons and page banners. Hyperlinks: The "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box, Use a Bookmark to hyperlink to an item on the same or different page, how to create hyperlinks out of words, phrases or images.
Learn how to create and manipulate Tables and Cells, the rows & columns, alignment, width, border size, cell padding, and cell spacing.
This is one of the most important things that you can learn in FrontPage!
Using FrontPage to Publish you web. When you have finished building your web on your computer you are going to want to publish it to the internet. Here are a few things you should know.
Dynamic Web Template Information:If you haven't heard the buzz about FrontPage 2003's dynamic web templates, we would like to tell you about this exciting new feature.
The theory behind the Consortium's guidelines is that if ALL template designers use the same editable region area names, then you could change the look of your entire web site by just applying a new dynamic web template.
FrontPage Dynamic Web Template Overview: A Dynamic Web Template's main purpose is to make it easy to design a new web (or rebuild your current web) without having to worry about how the pages are structured. You concern yourself with adding content, product catalog images, shopping cart features, etc.
FrontPage Dynamic Web Tutorial: Our step-by-step tutorial is coming soon!
CSS Basics:Go here to learn all about Cascading Style Sheets, what they are, how to use them and the different types.
Go here to take apart an external style sheet and see what all of the code means. It's actually very simple to learn. It also allows you to have greater control over how your pages display to your visitors.
Style sheets are designed to be easy to edit. Learn about some common items that are quick and easy to change.
From time to time, you may find that your particular web site could use a special "class" defined in the style sheet.
In FrontPage 2000 and 2002, some formatting features are now automatically applied as inline styles.
A CSS/HTML template is a collection of pre-designed web pages, just like any other template, except that it has one very special additional page called a style sheet.
Here you will find a collection of links to take a class, some tutorial sites, some CSS Razzle-Dazzle, interesting reading, and making CSS easy.
FrontPage Database Tutorial:A 17 part tutorial which details the use of the Database Interface Wizard and the Database Results Wizard.
FrontPage Help Articles:A selection of useful topics and items that will make your FrontPage experience easier and faster.
FrontPage 2002 can show you at a glance which images and pages are being linked to and which ones aren't. The stragglers that have no active link are not being used and may be able to be deleted.
You may wish to paste text from an application such as Microsoft Word. While you can directly copy and paste, FrontPage will usually add in a lot of formatting information that may not display correctly on all browsers. Go here to learn the right way to copy and paste.
Using other animation programs and animation effects with your web.
At some point, you may want to have a navigation button link that will take the viewer to a page that is not included in your web site. For example, you may want to allow a viewer jump to another one of your web sites, to a special password protected area, or to a search engine page. In many ways an include page is much like a shared boarder only much more versatile as it can be placed anywhere on the page. Just as with a shared boarder you can use it for your page banner area and copyright or footer.
If you wish to sell products or services from your site, you will need some method of taking payments and delivering the product.
A very basic tutorial for Swish Version 2.0 that will help you edit the wording in many of the Swish movies that are included in today's selection of templates.
You can apply Dynamic HTML (DHTML) animation effects to just about anything on a page — text, paragraphs, pictures, buttons, marquees, and so on — and tie the effect to a trigger event, such as clicking a mouse, pointing a mouse, loading a page, and so on. You can create an animation that makes text fly in from the right when the page is loaded.
Get some help with the included forms that FrontPage offers.
Learn about form results actions and how to change the results from the default setting to one of your own.
Cool little information pop-up windows, date and time stamps, nifty effects, and other bits of magic can easily be done with java scripts. You can find dozens of sites which offer free java scripts by going to your favorite search engine and typing in "free java script" as your key words.
Learn how you can add text to any blank button or graphic image using our favorite Imaging Program - Paint Shop Pro.
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