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1. FRONTPAGE 2000 FOUNDATION

FRONTPAGE AND THE INTERNET

WHAT IS THE INTERNET?

What is an Internet Browser?
What is an Internet Server?
What are URLs?
What is a Web Site?
What is a Web site home page?

WHAT IS HTML?

WHAT IS FRONTPAGE?

The FrontPage window - Views
Page View
Folders View
Reports View
Navigation View
Hyperlinks View
Tasks View

2. CREATING A FIRST WEB SITE

CREATING A ONE PAGE WEB

To create a new, one page Web

ENTERING TEXT INTO YOUR NEW WEB PAGE

BASIC TEXT FORMATTING

To apply bold, underlying or italic attributes to selected text
To modify text alignment
To make selected text bigger or smaller
To mark text as a header
To change the font used by selected text
To add bullet points or numbering to a list
To change the color of selected text
To indent text
To save changes to a page

CREATING A NEW WEB PAGE

Saving a Web page

SWITCHING BETWEEN OPEN PAGES WITHIN YOUR WEB

SIMPLE TEXT HYPERLINKING

To insert a text hyperlink

PREVIEWING YOUR WEB PAGES

To preview within FrontPage
To preview within a Browser
To preview using an alternative Web browser

EXAMINING THE HTML CODE BEHIND A WEB PAGE

To view your HTML code

CREATING WEB FOLDERS (SUB-DIRECTORIES)

To create a new folder
To rename a Web file or folder
To move a file from one folder to another

3. BASIC FORMATTING TECHNIQUES

OPENING A WEB WITHIN THE FRONTPAGE WINDOW

MODIFYING THE BACKGROUND COLOR

To modify the background color

ADDING A BACKGROUND PICTURE

To add a picture to the background

MODIFYING DEFAULT TEXT AND HYPERLINK COLORS

To modify the default text and hyperlink colors
To modify selected text colors

HORIZONTAL LINES

To insert a horizontal line
To format a horizontal line

APPLYING THEMES

What are themes?
To apply a theme to an entire Web
To remove a theme from a Web

4. MANIPULATING TABLES WITHIN FRONTPAGE

INSERTING A TABLE

To insert a table using the Insert Table icon
To insert a table using the Table drop down menu
Alignment
Border Size
Cell Padding
Cell Spacing
Specify Width

MODIFYING TABLE PROPERTIES

To modify the properties of an existing table

MODIFYING CELL PROPERTIES

To modify the properties of individual cells

5. FRONTPAGE - PICTURES & MULTIMEDIA

INSERTING CLIP ART

To insert Clipart
To re-size a picture
To add alternative text to a picture
Controlling picture alignment

PICTURE FILE TYPES - FILE SIZE & LOADING SPEEDS

GIF vs. JPGs
Interleaved GIF files
Transparent GIF files

BACKGROUND SOUNDS

To add a background sound

VIDEO CLIPS

To insert a video clip
To edit a video clip's properties

6. HYPERLINKING, BOOKMARKS & IMAGE MAPS

TEXT HYPERLINKS TO OTHER PAGES

To link text to another page in the current Web
To link text to a page on a different Web site
To link to a file on an FTP site

BOOKMARK LINKS

To create a bookmark
To edit an existing bookmark
To link to a bookmark on the current page
To link to a bookmark on another page

USING PICTURE HYPERLINKS

To add a hyperlink to a picture

CREATING IMAGE MAP HYPERLINKS

Picture vs. text hyperlinks
To create a hyperlinked image map

EMAIL LINKS

Automatically formatting an email link
To insert an email link

7. INTRODUCING FRONTPAGE "COMPONENTS"

HOVER BUTTONS

What are hover buttons?
To insert a hover button
To add your text to the hover button
To add your hyperlink to the hover button
To customize the hover button effect

ADDING A SCROLLING MARQUEE

To add a scrolling marquee banner
To preview the scrolling marquee
To edit marquee text and formatting
Marquee formatting options
To reverse the direction of the marquee scroll
To affect the speed of the scroll
To determine text alignment within the marquee
To control Marquee looping
To change the marquee background color
To specify the size of the marquee
To format the text used within the Marquee

ADDING PAGE TRANSITIONS

To use Page transitions

CREATING ANIMATIONS - DHTML

To display the DHTML Effects toolbar
To animate text or pictures

8. FRONTPAGE AND FRAMES

USING FRAMES

The advantages of using frames
Disadvantages of using frames

THE FRAME SET

CREATING A FRAME SET

Defining your "banner" page
Defining your "contents" page
Defining your "main or home" page

VIEWING THE FRAME PAGE HTML

THE <NOFRAMES> TAG

9. MANAGING YOUR WEB

WHY DO YOU NEED TO MANAGE A WEB SITE?

DELETING A WEB OR PAGES CONTAINED WITHIN A WEB

To delete a Web page file using FrontPage
To delete an entire Web using FrontPage

PROOFING YOUR ENTIRE WEB SITE

To spell check an entire Web site

USING SITE-WIDE TEXT 'SEARCH AND REPLACE'

To use 'search and replace' on all the pages within a Web

RECALCULATING AND VERIFYING HYPERLINKS

To recalculate hyperlinks within a web
To check for broken links
To verify your hyperlinks
To fix broken links

FRONTPAGE TASKS

To add a task to a page
To view your tasks

10. GOOD SITE DESIGN, PUBLISHING & PUBLICIZING

PLAN YOUR SITE

Design in easy site navigation
Design for growth
Make your site address portable

PUBLISHING YOUR WEB SITE

To publish your Web using FrontPage

FACTORS AFFECTING THE SPEED OF YOUR WEB SITE

Server bandwidth
Keep picture sizes to a minimum
Resolution and no of colors
GIF vs. JPG file
Why specify the physical shape and size of your picture files?
To specify the physical shape and size of your picture files
Use both low and high resolution versions of picture files
To specify both low and high resolution versions of picture files
What if people view your pages with the 'picture loading' turned off?

USING RELEVANT TEXT

Use relevant key words in your web pages
Do not try to spam the search engines

LISTING YOUR WEB WITH SEARCH ENGINES

META TAGS

To add meta tags within FrontPage
Example of the HTML inserted meta tag codes

11. APPENDIX ONE - IMPORTING A WEB

IMPORTING A WEB

To import a Web from your hard disk (or network)
To import a Web from the Internet

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