Frontpage - Intro

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This 2 day course introduces students to MS FrontPage.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the windows interface would be required. No experience of MS FrontPage is necessary.

Benefits

Students will learn how to create and edit web pages using Microsoft FrontPage. The course provides a solid foundation, introducing key features of this program with plenty of hands-on practice. Students will learn to create attractive web pages that include text, graphics, tables, forms, internal and external links, and a logical navigation scheme.

Course Content

General

• Overview Of Sites, Hyperlinks, Browsers, ISP’s
• Load Pages In Web Page Editor And Browser
• Store Pages As HTML And As Web Page Editor Documents
• Print Data And Web Page (HTML) Code
• Use Design Checker (Download Time, Text Frames, Etc)

Publishing To The Web

• Publish Using FrontPage (Changed Pages Only, All Pages)
• Recommend Use Of Alternative FTP Programs & Sites To Download From
• Useful Software - Outline Use Of WinZip & Adobe Reader

Views Within FrontPage Explorer – Provide Overview Of

• Page, Folders, Reports, Navigation, Hyperlinks, Tasks

Compose A New Page

• & Link With Other Pages
• Naming & Linking Pages – Significance Of Index.Htm Filename
• Page Setup – Header/ Footer, Margins, Title
• Associate With Categories
• Page Transition & Background Sound
• Apply Background Fill/ Images
• Banners
• Add META-Tags
• Set Page Options (Default Font, Thumbnail Size, etc)
• Update Page Details (Date Modified,  Author Details, etc)

Format Text

• Text properties (Colour, Font, Size, Etc)
• Alignment, Indent
• Bullets & Numbering
• Styles – Create New, Modify Existing
• Style Sheet Links

Graphics

• Outline Difference Between PNG, GIF & JPEG Files
• & Specify Position
• Copy Images From The WWW And Import Into Site
• Convert Graphic Types
• Set Picture Properties
• Use Of Picture Toolbar(Wrap Text, Rotate, Crop, Set Transparency, Etc)
• Apply Dynamic HTML Animation Effects
• Thumbnails

Tables

• Use Of Tables Will Be Covered In Detail As Most Of The Structuring Will Be Carried Out Using Them
• / / Merge/ Split Cells
• Resize Rows & Columns (With Mouse, Distribute & Autofit)
• Cell Padding, Alignment, Background Picture/ Colour

Frames

• Outline Use Of Frames
• Create, Resize, , Split Frames
• Set Frame Properties (Resizable, Scroll Bars)

Hyperlinks

• What Are Links? – ALT Tagging Of Images To Benefit Users
• Relative & Absolute Links
• Link Pages To Create A Web Structure
• Create Links As Standard Text, URL And Graphics
• Break A Single Image Down To Hyperlink To A Number Of Pages ie Create Hotpoints

Create A Hyperlink To:

• A Web Site Or File On The Internet – Recommend Useful External Sites To Link To(Eg To Instruct Users To Download WinZip, Etc)
• Another Page In Your Web Site
• An Internet E-Mail Address
• An Office File Imported Into The Site
• Display And Verify Hyperlink Status
• Insert/ Format Standard Objects
• Insert Text, WordArt, Clipart, Video Clip, Picture From File (Eg Company Logo)
• Position, Resize Objects
• Align Objects, Send To Front/ Back/ Backward/ Forward
• Format And Animate Objects (Colour, Background Fill, Line Colour)
• Text Styles (Create, Modify And Apply)
• Timestamp
• Table of Contents
• Horizontal Lines
• Borders – Apply to Individual/ All Pages
• Import Files & Folders Into The Web

Forms

• Create A Form
• Add Fields To The Form
• Set Data Entry Rules
• Collect Information From Form (Send To Filename, Email Address, Database)
• Set Up Confirmation Form
• Create Search Form
• Use Of Database Results Wizard

Components

• Office spreadsheet/ PivotTable/ chart
• Banner ad manager
• Hit counter
• Hover button
• Marquee
• Include page
• Scheduled picture/ include page
• Search form
• Table of contents

Various

• Check In/ Out Files
• Line Breaks
• Tools – Spell Check, Replace, Etc
• Active Elements (Hover Button, Marquee, Etc)
• Create And Use Templates

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Microsoft Front Page

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