User manual MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002

CONTENTS FRONTPAGE 2002 ­ LEVEL 1 LESSON 1: CREATING A WEB A. Planning: Things to Consider Before Creating a Web . . . . . . . . . Webs versus the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Web Creation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . te tC Are You a Good Web or a Bad Web? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. Creating an Empty Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . View an Existing Web in FrontPage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FrontPage Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ma Do C. Creating a Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is a Home Page? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Adding Text to a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nc e Pl ea se E. Applying Text Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LESSON 2: WORKING WITH TABLES A. Inserting a Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No B. Editing a Table's Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Formatting a Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. Splitting a Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . re D. Converting a Text File into a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Adding Hyperlinks to Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What Is a Hyperlink?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fe LESSON 3: CONNECTING PAGES Re B. Creating a Shared Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Adding Pages to a Web's Navigation Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing a File versus Inserting a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . op 17 17 21 22 26 27 28 31 32 34 34 37 39 39 iii y 12 ria 2 2 3 4 10 10 l CONTENTS D. Inserting a Custom Link Bar Web Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. Removing a Page from a Web's Navigation Structure . . . . . . . . . 42 43 A. Adding a Picture to a Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. Editing a Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ria op y l 46 48 50 51 52 56 57 59 62 62 65 66 68 70 71 71 75 79 FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 LESSON 4: ADDING VISUAL APPEAL TO A WEB C. Creating an Image Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Using the Drawing Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. Adding a Photo Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. Modifying a Photo Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Applying a Theme to an Entire Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Modifying a Theme and Applying It to an Individual Page. . . . . LESSON 5: PREPARING AND PUBLISHING A WEB A. Creating and Managing Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is a Task? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Correcting a Broken Link Using the Hyperlinks Report. . . . . . . . . E. Using Text Editing Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. Publishing Your Web to the Personal Web Manager . . . . . . . . . . . Determining Your Personal Web Manager's Path . . . . . . . . . . re G. Creating a Backup Copy of a Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fe Re iv Pl ea se Do No C. Viewing FrontPage Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nc e B. Organizing Your Web's Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tC Ma te ABOUT THIS COURSE Microsoft FrontPage 2002 is a desktop software application you can use to create, edit, and manage web sites, whether for an intranet or for the World Wide Web. Ma Do FrontPage now also allows web developers to import, edit, and format their own HTML code. nc e Pl ea se Course Prerequisites To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following New Horizons course or have equivalent knowledge: · Windows 2000 - Level 1 · · · Word 2002 - Level 1 Word 2002 - Level 2 Internet Explorer 5.0 - Level 1 · Re fe A recommendation is that students have experience surfing the World Wide Web. It is also recommended, but not required, to have taken the following New Horizons course or have equivalent knowledge: HTML 4.01: Web Authoring - Level 1 re No tC v op How would you like to save time on the job? Whether you're a seasoned webmaster or ready to create your very first web site, who wouldn't? Because FrontPage is a flexible, WYSIWYG software application, you don't have to waste valuable development time learning and applying the technological, background complexities that go into creating a web site and its pages. (In fact, FrontPage uses many of the same features as other Microsoft Office applications. So, for instance, if you know how to bold text in Microsoft Word, you already know how to do it in FrontPage.) Although FrontPage can and does do most of the "geek" stuff for you, allowing you to concentrate on shaping your site's content, it also provides easy access to and integration with higher-end web technologies--sure to satisfy even the most Web-savvy veteran. te y ria ABOUT THIS COURSE l ABOUT THIS COURSE How To Use This Book As a Learning Guide Each lesson covers one broad topic or set of related topics. Lessons are arranged in order of increasing proficiency with FrontPage; skills you acquire in one lesson are used and developed in subsequent lessons. For this reason you should work through the lessons in sequence. We organized each lesson into results-oriented topics. Topics include all the relevant and supporting information you need to master FrontPage, activities allow you to apply this information to practical hands-on examples. The organization and layout of the book makes it easy to use as a learning tool and as an after-class reference. You can use this book as a first source for definitions of terms, background information on given topics, and summaries of procedures. fe · · · · create and modify tables. connect pages. Re add, edit, and link pictures, as well apply and modify themes. prepare a web for publishing. Pl ea You will: · identify site-planning considerations, create a new web, a home page, and add and format text on the home page. se In this course, you will create, edit, and publish web pages that include formatting, FrontPage components, tables, text, and images. re Course Objectives Do No As a Reference nc e tC Any method of instruction is only as effective as the time and effort you are willing to invest in it. In addition, some of the information that you learn in class may not be important to you immediately, but it may become important later on. For this reason, we encourage you to spend some time reviewing the topics and activities after the course. For additional challenge when reviewing activities, try the "what to do" column before looking at the "how to do it" column. vi op FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 y As a Review Tool Ma te You get to try out each new skill on a specially prepared sample file. This saves you typing time and allows you to concentrate on the skill at hand. Through the use of sample files, hands-on activities, illustrations that give you feedback at crucial steps, and supporting background information, this book provides you with the foundation and structure to learn FrontPage quickly and easily. ria l LESSON 1 Creating a Web In this lesson, you will identify site-planning considerations, create a new web, a home page, and add and format text on the home page. · · · · create an empty web based on the Empty Web template. create a home page. add text to a page. nc e Pl ea se apply character and paragraph formatting to text. Re Lesson 1: Creating a Web fe re Do No tC 1 You will: · identify guidelines in the web creation's planning stage. op y Lesson Objectives: Ma te ria LESSON 1 l Data Files: none Lesson Time: 60 minutes LESSON 1 Introduction You've been given the assignment to create a web site for your company. You've got Microsoft FrontPage 2002 installed and have some great ideas. You're ready to launch the application and begin pounding out web pages! Not so fast! Although your enthusiasm is to be applauded, and you will be well underway before this lesson is complete, it's important to take a moment to step back and look at the big picture. For instance, what is a site? What actually goes into creating a site? And so on. Once you understand what typically goes into creating a new web, you will be better prepared to examine existing webs, as well as create your own. You will be able to avoid unnecessary pitfalls, and potentially save you and your company embarrassment. TOPIC A Ma Do Before doing anything else, the first step to creating a successful web is to put a web plan in place. Webs versus the World Wide Web re The word "web" can be quite vague and it would be best if we cleared up any confusion as to what we mean by this term and all it entails. Definition: In the context of FrontPage, a web is a specially designated folder location, or site, on either your hard drive or on a Web server. Within a web's folder, sometimes called the root folder, there can be multiple web pages--documents written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) with unique filenames and locations--a variety of subfolders, and even other webs, called subwebs. In short, a FrontPage-based web is a container to store and manage related files. A web is not to be confused with the World Wide Web, or the Web, which is a system of Internet servers that store, or host, individual webs. fe Re Pl ea se No You don't want your site to become lost in the Web shuffle. A clear understanding of what goes into creating a good web, coupled with intensive planning before you begin producing any web content, will help you create a clear reason and plan of attack that could save you countless hours of damage control later--when excuses won't matter. Remember, the competition's site is only a click away. nc e tC Benjamin Franklin once wrote in Poor Richard's Almanac "...a little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse, the rider was lost..." 2 op Planning: Things to Consider Before Creating a Web te FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 y ria l LESSON 1 We will use the terms "site," "web," and "web site" synonymously. We will also use "web page" and "page" interchangeably. Example: A good example of a large web is Microsoft's site. The web is located at: http://www.microsoft.com/. It contains thousands of subfolders, such as the FrontPage folder: http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/, and individual web pages, like http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/using.htm. As large as it is, the Microsoft web is only a small part of the World Wide Web. Analogy: The Web Creation Process Ma Do nc e re Figure 1-1: The web site creation process. Re Lesson 1: Creating a Web Pl ea Planning, which we will get to in a moment, is the most overlooked stage, even though it's the first step. Production, which makes up the bulk of this course, includes the actual creation of the web and its content--the building, connecting, and maintaining of web pages. The last stage is publishing, which means putting the web somewhere, typically on a Web server, so that it will be accessible to your audience. fe se No tC 3 op y Creating a web can be distilled into the following cyclical process: Planning, Producing, and Publishing, as shown in Figure 1-1. Although extremely simplified, each stage includes a variety of steps you should take to ensure a site's success. te Think of the World Wide Web as the supreme public library with millions of books (webs). Each book has its own pages (web pages) that cover a particular subject. And as you might expect, some books are best sellers and others never get read. ria l LESSON 1 In general, the site creation process is a bit of a misnomer because it suggests that once you create a site, your work is done, when in reality, publishing the site should signal the need to begin the cycle again. Based on feedback and information you receive from clients or people who visit your web, you will want to plan, implement, and publish changes and updates for the life of the web. How you will keep the site updated is part of the planning process. It helps to get target audience feedback regarding a web's usability at every stage of the site development process. · nc e · · Place the most important page items in the upper-left portion of the screen. This will help ensure that the item is seen immediately--without requiring a visitor to scroll around the screen. Keep your web structure's hierarchy relatively flat--not too many layers of content below the home page--and organized. As you can see in Figure 1-2, try to arrange web pages to be as near to the web's home page as possible--between three and five levels is ideal. A common web hierarchy is home page, category pages, and then detailed pages. If it takes a person more than a few clicks to get to the information, they will likely give up and go elsewhere. Present generic information in pages residing in a web's upper levels and place more specific information on pages at the lower levels. This creates a "drill-down" effect. Figure 1-2 shows the generic home page above general categories. Those categories have specific pages below them. Keep your web lean. Don't publish superfluous files to your web. Not only does it waste valuable storage space, but it also slows web performance. And whenever possible, try to reduce the file sizes for web pages and graphics. You want fast-loading pages. re fe · · Re Pl ea se Do No Consistent placement of repeating elements (navigation bars, logos, and so on) by putting these items in the same place on every page. This way, visitors don't have to "re-learn" where to look for things on each page in your site. tC 4 op FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 y Guidelines: The following organizational dos and don'ts will help you to create a "good web" that's easy to use. · Place similar page content in the same category. At first this sounds reasonable, doesn't it? But when the content begins to flow in, you might not take the time you should when considering where you should place content. Ma te Before we begin, we should mention that distinguishing between good and bad webs is purely subjective: "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"; however, there are certain things you can do to your web to make it more usable. In general, you want your web's organization and graphic design to support your message--not overpower it! Subtle, yet purposeful, design decisions are best. To that end, here are two sets of "common-sense" guidelines to help you make those decisions: organizational and graphical. ria Are You a Good Web or a Bad Web? l LESSON 1 Figure 1-2: A simple, but proper, navigational hierarchy. Ma Do All graphical guidelines can be summed up in one word: understated. Just because you can use a dozen different formatting options doesn't mean you should. · Use sufficiently contrasting colors and hues. Each web page element should be easily distinguishable from other elements. nc e Pl ea se Although contrasting colors are important, don't go overboard. Stark contrasts can be as difficult to view as subtle contrasts. · Selecting contrasting colors goes for text, as well as for graphics. For the most part, consider putting dark-colored text on a light-colored background. Remember, there's nothing wrong with using the old standby, black text on a white background! Although light text on a dark background is legible, it's considered kind of amateurish. Avoid light text on light backgrounds and dark text on dark backgrounds; the lack of contrast will make it impossible for visitors to read your message. Use color consistently and purposefully. Don't go changing colors for the sake of change. Repeating colors can foster a visitor's comfort level. The more comfortable a person is using your site, the more likely they'll return. Organize with color. By making related page elements, such as navigation bars, the same color, you create a visual connection between them. Curb your own color preferences. Just because blue is your favorite color doesn't mean you should use it all the time. Restrict the number of different colors used in a web to a maximum of three complementary colors. · Re Lesson 1: Creating a Web fe · · · re No tC 5 op y These general graphical guidelines will help you to create a "good web" that's easy for your target audience to view. · Provide a comfortable and pleasant "visual" atmosphere for visitors. Don't shock them unnecessarily with extreme color contrasts. te All organizational guidelines can be summed up in one statement: Don't make visitors work at using your site; their time is valuable! ria l LESSON 1 · For more on adding accessibility to your webs, visit W3.org: http:// www.w3.org/WAI/. · Ma Do For more on usability, visit Jacob Nielsen's UseIt.com: http://www. useit.com/. Example: To see some good examples of web design, launch your Web browser and explore the following sites: · http://www.web100.com/ · · http://www.thewebawards.com/ http://www.projectcool.com/sightings/ nc e · · · NonExample: To see some examples or poorly done sites, you can explore these sites: http://www.worstoftheweb.com/ http://www.forkinthehead.com/ http://www.ecotide.com/ re fe Re Pl ea Graphical design decisions can be affected by a visitor's monitor settings; the choices you make may not appear as you intended. To avoid "surprises," you should preview your webs on several operating systems, at different resolutions, using different Web browsers to ensure the best possible results. se No tC 6 op FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 y Consider the possibility of using appropriate metaphors in your design. For instance, if your site's purpose is to tell prospective students about your college, using a classroom-like setting as a design motif is applicable. Metaphors can sometimes be tricky, though--especially if your site is intended to be internationally accepted. te · Don't use color: "After all this, you're telling me not to use color?" Yes and no. Not using color, or rather staying with black and white, is in fact a color decision. Again, let your site's target audience help you decide. ria Anticipate your target audience's perception of your color choices. Colors can have psychological and cultural meanings; for instance, white can symbolize purity in Western cultures, but in Japan, white typically is associated with death. Colors can also have physical implications. If a significant portion of your target audience has a vision deficiency--such as poor vision or color blindness--you should consider increasing font sizes and/or avoid using greens and reds (associated with the most common forms of color blindness). l LESSON 1 Planning: Things to Consider Before Creating a Web If you buy into the old adage, "Garbage in, garbage out," then planning is the single most important stage of the site creation process. It is here that you will set the course and tone for your web. With that said, unfortunately, it's the stage most taken for granted. Since people are often pressed for time at the start of a web project, they assume they can easily plan during the site's production. That's rarely a successful strategy. It's best to take the time up front to discuss the following web planning guidelines: Be sure to record all of your planning somewhere--we recommend keeping a binder for each web you develop for planning decisions and notes. Guidelines: · Ma Do · nc e Pl ea se Audience: Who's your target audience? Is your audience made up of techies or newbies? Are they high-energy teenagers or patient senior citizens? Gather demographic information. Do they use the Microsoft Internet Explorer or the Netscape Navigator browser to surf? Gather technological information. Does your audience have vision problems? Consider your audience's physical requirements. The more you know about your target audience, the more you can tailor your site to best meet their requirements, because the production choices you will make should be based on their needs. (Note that your web audience may differ from your regular customers, so do as much research as possible. Surveys and questionnaires of your existing clientele is a great starting point.) Don't make your site so generic that it doesn't serve anyone. By targeting a particular audience, your web will be more targeted as well. Content: What will the site provide? Based on your site's purpose and target audience, identify what information or service will meet both those needs. Will the information be text-heavy or graphically intensive? (Carefully consider the use of graphics on your web. Too many can make a page download slowly.) You want your site to be appear "fast"; text and graphics should be used purposefully--if a piece of content is superfluous, leave it out. Now's a good time to identify that content that will need to be updated, such as news items. Organization: Take time to identify some general categories of information, and then arrange the specific content within those appropriate categories. For instance, a category might be named "Catalog," and in that category, you might put pages for individual products. Try to anticipate how site visitors might "click through," or navigate, the content. If a site is difficult to navigate through, visitors won't return no matter how good Re Lesson 1: Creating a Web fe · re · No tC op 7 Purpose: Why are you making a site at all? What will you and/or your company gain by having a site? What will people who visit your site gain? Once you've settled on a purpose, write it down and keep it in front of you at all times. Some web developers like to create a mission statement, because it keeps you and the site focused on the goal. No matter what the purpose of your web, one goal of every site should be to keep it fresh. Don't just publish a web and leave it to rot on the vine. Update the site regularly. te y ria l LESSON 1 your content is! One way to help you organize a web is to storyboard it. This can involve creating one 3" x 5" index card for each proposed web page and arranging them in logical category piles. Then connect the cards with the string to show how pages will link together. You may prefer to just sketch ideas on a piece of paper or a white board, too--whatever works best for you. As a general rule, you want to keep the number of general content categories between five and 10. Again, the purpose is to make it easy for a visitor to locate the information or service they want. · Resources: When you identify resources that will help you with your web, split them into two groups: people and material. On the people side, who will supply content? Who will be responsible for maintaining the technical aspects of the site? Who will supply artwork and design help? Who will edit and manage the content? Who will test the site and how often? On the material side, do you have access to existing graphics, stock photos, clip art, or company logos? Can you re-purpose existing content from newsletters, annual reports, or event flyers? Do you need other software besides FrontPage, such as an image editing application, to help you build your web? Creating a web involves a lot of different disciplines and it's unrealistic to think you won't need help somewhere along the line. Take time now to identify resources that can assist you when necessary. Assembling a competent team up front will prevent panic later! This is also a good time to assign "ownership." Get firm commitments from any and all potential web contributors. Ma Do te tC nc e · re Location: Two things here. First, where will you develop the web? FrontPage webs can either be disk-based or server-based. Disk-based webs, like the ones you will use in this course, are stored locally on your hard disk or some other storage device (floppy disk, CD-ROM, network drive, and so forth). Ordinarily, disk-based webs are used for developing simple webs because that's when the focus is on creating and formatting page content; simple webs rarely require a server's support. fe Re Pl ea As your webs become more complex, you will want to develop them on a test Web server. Logically enough, these are called server-based webs. Though they can be more complicated to set up and slower to use (because you connect to the server over an Internet connection), server-based webs can take advantage of server technologies to provide support for interactive processes like message boards, data collection and display, and so on. As a result, developing a web on a Web server will allow the web to behave more "realistically," as it would on the World Wide Web. Disk-based webs are also great for creating a backup copy of a web. se No Legal assistance may also be useful to advise you on Internet-related laws, such as drafting copyright, privacy, and usage policies. 8 op FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 y ria l LESSON 1 If you are developing a web on a server other than the one that will ultimately store, or host, your web, the development Web server should be as similar to the host server as possible to minimize potential problems. Secondly, who will ultimately store, or host, the web once you're ready to publish the web? Will you host your own Web server or will you use an Web Presence Provider (WPP), sometimes called an Internet Service Provider (ISP)? Although you will give up some control and money, it's often more convenient to use a qualified WPP because they can deal with the technology side of things--such as securing your web's domain name--again saving you time to work on your web. Just be sure the WPP you select will support FrontPage webs and all the things you need your web to do; include the WPP folks in every stage of development. Note that if you do decide to host your own site, you will need to learn about a wide range of server technologies. It's never too soon to get your web's domain name and you don't need a site yet to reserve one. Search for the domain name you want at http:// networksolutions.com/. Ma Do te tC To find a registered FrontPage WPP, go to http://www.microsoftwpp.com/. nc e Pl ea se One other guideline in planning is marketing. This may be outside your scope, depending on your job role, but planning a marketing strategy early is a very good idea. Start by asking, how will the site be publicized? Will it be advertised in various media outlets? Will you submit it to search engines on the Web? In many ways, this is an afterthought that depends on your audience. Will it be publicized? You may not even want to "tell the world" if the web will be an intranet, specifically for your employees. (An intranet is typically a protected web belonging to a particular group or corporation that is accessible only to authorized users, such as members or employees.) How will you attract new visitors? Will you provide "free stuff" or will you run contests? How will you keep returning visitors? Will you create a web community for them so they can collaborate on issues? Or will you offer them discounts on various products? The purpose of an intranet, a protected web belonging to a particular group accessible only to authorized users, usually differs from that of a web that's part of the World Wide Web because the audiences differ. Example: Re Lesson 1: Creating a Web fe For the web you will be creating, the planning process has been done for you. The web is to be a corporate presence (purpose) for people unfamiliar with Vision Office Products (audience). It will provide visitors with an overview of the company and its products, as well as necessary contact information (content). The content will be arranged logically in general categories, introduced by a home page (organization). And although you will primarily be working alone on this web, other "departments" will have input and provide some content (resources). The web will be hosted on your company's server (location) with advertising to be handled by another department (marketing). re No op 9 y ria l LESSON 1 TOPIC B Ma Do Procedure Reference: Opening webs in FrontPage is really no different than opening a file in other Office XP applications. The general steps follow. Choose FileOpen. 1 2 3 Locate the web you want to open. Select it and click Open. fe Re Pl ea se What is FrontPage Anyway? re Before we open a web, let's first firm up what we are talking about whenever we mention FrontPage. Most importantly, what is it? Microsoft FrontPage 2002 is a convenient and encompassing web building tool available. Leveraging what you already know about Microsoft Office applications, FrontPage allows you to create and manage every aspect of a web--from individual web pages to complicated, dynamic e-commerce enterprise webs. FrontPage is a great program for novices and experts alike. Using the latest Web standards, FrontPage is also open-ended enough to allow for any new technologies that come down the developer's pike. No View an Existing Web in FrontPage nc e tC Throughout this book, we will use a variety of job titles synonymously; web developer, webmaster, designer, webbie, and webber are some examples. Every organization calls the person in charge of creating webs something different. 10 op Besides the practical benefits of making a web in FrontPage, creating your own web from scratch is an invaluable learning experience. Not only will you go through the ups and downs all other webbies go through, the urgency of a deadline and satisfaction of completing a web, but you will also familiarize yourself with all the various hats a webmaster must wear--writer, editor, graphic designer, manager, and so on. te Sure you can create webs using other software applications, but by creating a web and its pages in FrontPage, you harness the program's hidden managerial power. FrontPage keeps track of every file and/or folder in a web. FrontPage keeps track so you don't have to give them a second thought. So when you add, remove, or edit a page in a web, FrontPage looks at how the page is used by the web and "notifies" you of the potential damage the change might cause. For instance, if you try to delete your web's home page, FrontPage asks you confirm the deletion, but it also warns you of the repercussions. FrontPage 2002 ­ Level 1 y ria Using your browser, you've seen sites others have created using FrontPage on the World Wide Web. Next, you will tour an existing web in FrontPage and begin creating your own new web based on a template. l Creating an Empty Web LESSON 1 In a nutshell, it's a web developer's Swiss Army Knife. But like any other multi-purpose tool, FrontPage may not have all the capabilities you want built in--for instance, it might not have robust enough image editing tools for you. You can easily supplement it with other "editor" applications by choosing ToolsOptionsConfigure Editors. Ma nc e Pl ea se Table 1-1: Views Bar Icons and What They Display Views Bar Icon Display This View To te Figure 1-3: The FrontPage application window with a web open. The View menu, not only also gives you access to all views on the Views bar, but you can also hide or display both the Views bar and the Folder List to maximize the space of the content area you have inside your application window. re Re Lesson 1: Creating a Web fe Create and edit individual pages within a web. (Sometimes called Page Editor view.) Do No tC 11 op y ria Orientation to FrontPage Views One of most useful aspects of FrontPage is its variety of different views. In general, these views let you create and edit pages, as well as check a web's current condition, contents, and structure. As you can see in Figure 1-3, the Views bar, located on the left of the application window, gives you fast access to any of the different views shown below. Table 1-1 describes what each view displays. l LESSON 1 Views Bar Icon Display This View To Manage a web's files and folders. Check the condition of a web. Ma nc e Different Page Views Normal See a graphical display of how pages are connected. te tC Manage or review how a web is structured. Build or review a web's "to-do" list. Within each of these views, there may be other ways to display things. For instance, in Page view's content area, there are three different panes: Normal, HTML, and Preview. Each view has its own purpose. re HTML se fe Preview Pl ea Re Do Display This Pane To Add, format, and position an open page's content. The Normal pane is where you will work 90 percent of the time. View or modify the opened page's HTML source code. The HTML pane is a great way to learn HTML by example. After you use the WYSIWYG tools in the Normal pane, you can switch to the HTML pane to see the code FrontPage created. See how an open page will appear in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Preview pane is best used for taking quick looks at works-in-progress, to show how a page or page element will appear in a browser. No 12 op