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Planning a Web Site with FrontPage 98

What you will learn from this lesson

When you plan a Web site with FrontPage 98 you will:

 

What you should do before you start this lesson

 

Exploring the lesson

Creating a Web from a FrontPage template or wizard

There are many templates and wizards that you can use to design a Web in FrontPage.

Web organization of a template

Using a personal Web structure, you can set up an intranet for students and staff to display information, announcements, and student projects.

Exploring the structure of a Web template

  1. In the Getting Started dialog box, click Create a New FrontPage Web, and click OK.
  2. On the New FrontPage Web dialog box, click From Wizard or Template.
  3. Click Personal Web.
  4. In the Choose a title for your FrontPage Web box, type personal, and click OK.
  5. In the Navigation view, double-click Home Page.

Viewing the design of a FrontPage Web

The basic structure of the Web page includes a header, body or active page, and footer.

Exploring design features in the FrontPage Editor

Look at the personal template home page and explore its features.

Exploring design features in the header, the title and the buttons.

  1. Press ctrl +click on the Interests link to view the page.
  2. Press ctrl +click on the Home link to get back.
  3. Press ctrl +click on the Photo Album link to view the page.
  4. Press ctrl +click on the Home link to get back.
  5. Press ctrl +click on the Favorites link to view the page.
  6. Press ctrl +click on the Home link to get back.
  7. On the Standard toolbar, click the Show FrontPage Explorer button.
  8. In the FrontPage Explorer, on the File menu, click Close FrontPage Web.

Creating an empty FrontPage Web

A FrontPage Web is a collection of HTML pages, images, documents, and other files and folders that make up a Web site. Authors can create, delete, open, edit, and close FrontPage Webs using the FrontPage Explorer and the FrontPage Editor on a computer. FrontPage Webs can be stored on a remote Web server, a Web server running on the same computer as the client program, or in the client computer’s file system.

When you name a Web, the name becomes part of the address. Careful thought should be given to the name.

Creating a new Web

  1. In the Getting Started dialog box, click Create a New FrontPage Web.
  2. Click OK.
  3. In the New FrontPage Web dialog box, click From Wizard or Template, and click Empty Web.
  4. In the Choose a title for your FrontPage web box, type washingtonhigh, and then click OK.

Adding and deleting a page

Adding a page in the FrontPage Explorer

Adding pages in the FrontPage Explorer is quick and easy. You can add them at the same level as the home page or below the home page. You can move them around, and the navigation links, shown as blue lines, show where they are in the Web.

Adding pages

You will add seven pages, moving five below the home page and keeping two on the same level.

  1. On the Standard toolbar, click the New Page button.
  2. Click the New Page button again.
  3. In the FrontPage Explorer window, click Yes to Do you want FrontPage to create navigation bars linking your pages together?
  4. Click the New Page button until you have a total of five new pages.
  5. Click one of the new pages, and move it below the Home Page page box.
  6. Click anywhere in the background to make sure that no New Page page box is selected.
  7. On the Standard toolbar, click the New Page button.
  8. Repeat steps 6 and 7.
  9. Click the new pages and drag them so that your screen looks like the next illustration.

Deleting a page

There are several ways to delete a page. Only delete one of the pages so you have six new pages when you continue.

Deleting pages from the Navigation view

  1. Click New Page 5 once to select it.
  2. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
  3. In the Delete Page window, click Delete this page from the FrontPage Web, and click OK.
  4. On the Edit menu, click Undo.

Opening and closing a Web page in the FrontPage Editor

You can close the home page in the FrontPage Editor. Before you close it, the FrontPage Editor prompts you to save any changes to pages. Use the Close command to end a session in the FrontPage Editor.

Closing the Web in the FrontPage Editor

  1. In the Navigation view, double-click Home Page.
  2. On the File menu, click Exit.
  3. If a Save dialog box appears, click Yes.
  4. On the Views toolbar in the FrontPage Explorer, click Navigation.

Organizing your pages

Because the home page serves as the gateway to your Web site, you should organize your Web site carefully. Using the Navigation view in the FrontPage Explorer to set up a flowchart to group your pages, you can easily arrange your topic. You may want to include some of the following pages: parent link, student activity, staff information, student resource, links to search engines, school schedules, school curriculum, student council news, and what’s new.

Creating a navigation chart

You can create a navigation structure for the current FrontPage Web by designing and organizing pages in the Navigation view in the FrontPage Explorer. FrontPage creates navigation bars based on the navigation structure and then inserts the navigation bars into the shared borders of these pages.

Setting up a navigation chart

  1. Click Home Page.
  2. On the Edit menu, click Rename, and type Washington High School.
  3. – or –

    Press f2, and type Washington High School.

  4. Click Top Page 1.
  5. On the Edit menu, click Rename, and type Parent Link.
  6. Click Top Page 2, press f2, and type Staff Information.
  7. Click New Page 1, press f2, and type Activity Schedule.
  8. Click New Page 2, press f2, and type Instructional Programs.
  9. Click New Page 3, press f2, and type Student Resources.
  10. Click New Page 4, press f2, and type Links.
  11. Click New Page 5, press f2, and type Student Yearbook.
  12. On the File menu, click Close FrontPage Web, and click Cancel.

 

How you can use what you learned

There are many templates and wizards that you can use to design a Web in FrontPage 98. You may want to check several designs to see available options that serve different purposes in presenting information to include in your Web. Look at the design options such as the research or search pages in the discussion Web to discover ways to use them in your classroom.

 

Extensions

Design an Intranet for your Web site. Intranets enable groups to share information quickly and easily. An Intranet would be perfect for a school to share student work and staff information. The Microsoft Office 60-Minute Intranet Kit provides a template that helps you set up an Intranet.

 

 

Summarizing what you learned

In this chapter you have explored and practiced: