This quick tutorial will give you the skills you need to build basic pages both for your company intranet and the internet using Microsoft's FrontPage 2002. Readers will learn how to create and manage basic websites, incorporating text, graphics, hyperlinks, tables and special FrontPage components.
Create a New Web
FrontPage comes with a large number of templates and wizards to help you create a site quickly. If you want to create a site that is entirely your own work, you can use the One Page Web template.
To create a one page web
When you create a one page web, FrontPage creates the home page only.
- From the File menu, click New then Page or Web...
The New Page or Web task pane is displayed on the right-hand side of the application window.
- In the New section of the task pane, click Empty Web
The Web Sites dialogue box is displayed.
- In the Web Sites list, click the One Page Web icon
- In the Specify the location of the new web: box, type or select a location and enter a name for the new one page web
If the folders in the name you type do not exist, they are created for you.
Note: By default FrontPage creates disk-based webs in new folders within the My Webs folder (a subfolder of My Documents), which is created when FrontPage is installed.
- Click OK
A new one page web is created.
A new page is created called Index.HTM. This blank page is not the home page, but a new page for you to start work with. If you do not want this page, click Close
at the top right of the Page View workspace. This closes the page without saving it.
Note: The default home-page name depends on the server's configuration. On many web servers it is INDEX.HTM, whilst on others it is DEFAULT.HTM. Ask your Internet Service Provider for advice.
To create a web based on a different template
- From the File menu, click New then Page or Web...
The New Page or Web task pane is displayed on the right-hand side of the application window.
- From the New from template section, click Web Site Templates...
The Web Site Templates dialogue box is displayed.
- In the Web Sites list, select an appropriate template
- In the Specify the location of the new web: box, type or select a location and a name for the new web
- Click OK
Create a Web Using a Wizard
Many of the web templates present you with a wizard to help you customise the web.
To create a web using a wizard
- From the File menu, click New then Page or Web...
The New Page or Web task pane is displayed on the right-hand side of the application window.
- Choose a location to store the web in then select one of the Wizard icons
- Click OK
The first page of the Web Wizard is displayed.
- Respond to each question about your company and the information you want to present on your web
- To move to the next page of the Wizard, click Next>
- If you make a mistake you can move back to a previous page in the Wizard by clicking <Back
- Click Finish to create the new web
The Home Page is called index.htm - but supporting pages have been created too.
Create a New Page
Pages can be added to a web at any time.
To create a new page in Page View
- On the Standard toolbar, click New Page
(SpeedKey: Ctrl + N)
A new, blank page is created.
To create a page based on a template or wizard
As well as templates and wizards for creating a web, FrontPage contains several templates and wizards for creating different kinds of web page.
- From the File menu, click New then Page or Web... then from the New from template section of the task pane, click Page Templates...
The Page Templates dialogue box is displayed.
- Select an icon to view a preview of the page in the right-hand panel
- Select the icon for the page you want then click OK
Tip: If you select a wizard icon , a series of dialogue boxes will help you to construct the page.
Open an Office Document In A Web
If you use Microsoft Office, you or your colleagues may have created web pages from other Office applications, such as Word or Excel.
You can import these into your web and continue to edit them in the original application or using FrontPage.
To import an Office document web page into a web
- In Windows Explorer, select the Office web document
- From the Edit menu, select Copy (SpeedKey: Ctrl + C)
- Switch to FrontPage and display the Folders List
- Select the folder you want to import the document into
- From the Edit menu, select Paste (SpeedKey: Ctrl + V)
The file is imported into the web. Office web documents appear with a slightly different icon to normal FrontPage web pages.
To open a web page document
If you double-click an Office web document to open it, it will open in the original application. However, you can also edit it in FrontPage.
- Right-click the document icon then from the shortcut menu, select Open With...
- In the Open With Editor dialogue box, select FrontPage and click OK
- Edit and save the document as normal
Apply a Theme
Themes are collections of design elements - bullets, background patterns, table borders, fonts and graphics - that you can apply to an entire FrontPage web.
You can apply one of the many FrontPage themes to give your pages a dynamic, colourful and consistent appearance.
To apply a theme to an entire web
- From the Format menu, select Theme...
The Themes dialogue is displayed.
- Select a theme from the list
You can see a preview of the theme and its graphical elements on the right of the dialogue box.
- Click OK
The selected theme is applied to all the pages in your current FrontPage web.
Tip: Click the Modify button to customise the theme.