Beginning Web Page Construction With FrontPage 2000

Step-by-step Instructions to get you started

Start > Programs > FrontPage

Answer yes or no to the question on the dialog box about your current default html editor (at home or school you may want to decide first if you want FrontPage to be your default)

File > New > Web…

choose one page web

ok

Format > Shared Borders…

Choose all pages

Select top and left

Ok

Format > Theme…

Select all pages

Choose a theme

Select vivid colors

Select apply using CSS

Ok

Warning message appears…click yes

Click inside the top shared border area

Insert > Page Banner…

Choose picture

Change text if you wish

Ok

If banner does not appear on page, click on the Navigation button in the left View pane, double-click on the Home Page block and your main page should come back up with the banner showing

Click inside the left shared border area

Insert > Navigation Bar…

Under additional pages choose Home Page

At bottom choose vertical and buttons

Ok

Buttons will not start to appear until new pages are added and linked off of Home Page

Click on Navigation button in the View pane at left

Right click on the Home Page block and choose New Page – a new page will appear connected to the home page (indicating a link) and be named New Page 1 (to change the name of the page, right click on its block, choose Rename – type in new name – hit enter)

At this point you should create a folder on the desktop, hard drive, floppy disk, or where ever you plan to save your “web” (give the folder a name – example: jimmys web)

File > Publish Web…

Browse

Choose location to save web (find the folder you created in step 14)

Open

You will be taken back to the Publish Web dialog box

Click Publish

You will get a warning message asking if you want to convert the folder to a web – click Yes

When it has finished publishing, you will get a dialog box that asks if you want to view the published site – click the Done button

Double click on the Home Page block (while in the Navigation view) to go back to the Home Page

Begin adding content to the page

Create new pages by right clicking on the page (in Navigation view) block you want to link off of and choose new page

To view web page(s)

Open web folder on storage medium (hard drive, desk top, floppy, etc)

Double-click on the file icon called index.htm

Browser will open and load the page

Will act as if you are on the internet (you are not…you are surfing your miniature web on your floppy)

To edit or add pages to “web” –

Open FrontPage

File > Open Web…

Find your web folder (on desktop, floppy, hard drive, etc)

Click open

FrontPage will pull in all of the pages and resources stored in the “web” folder

Make sure you republish when you make changes or additions to the web

Helpful websites:

MS FrontPage Home Center http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/

FrontPage World http://www.frontpageworld.com/

FrontPage tutorial http://www.actden.com/fp2000/java/

FrontPage resources http://www.at-frontpage.com/

FrontPage 2000 tutorial http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/frontpage/

FrontPage howto http://www.frontpagehowto.com/

Electric Teacher – FrontPage in the classroom http://www.electricteacher.com/frontpage.htm

FrontPageInfo.com http://www.frontpageinfo.com/index.htm

FreeFPThemes.com http://www.freefpthemes.com/ (careful…lots of popups)