Website QUICKSTART Guide
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or PSD files here!
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web pages included with your template. You can add, delete, rename or move any of
these pages. Once you've reviewed the list of content pages, review the quick start
guide below, or visit
The Complete FrontPage Tutorial Guide for Beginner to Pro!
Following are some quick start tutorials to help
you on your way. This is intended for users of FrontPage, however the fundamentals
are mostly the same for Dreamweaver as well.
Index:
Installing your web
site:
Creating a new web site with your new template
Adding a template page to your new web site
Removing
pages from your web site
Renaming Pages
Renaming your
menu buttons
About
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
About the Flash
animation
Publishing your
web site
Important Points to ease the learning curve
- If you are new to using FrontPage, always have the "Folder
List" turned on, and "View Bars" so you can easily find the pages and
folder in your web site.
- to turn the folder view on, Click on the View menu,
locate the "Folder List" option, and ensure the icon is depressed.
- FrontPage has an excellent help system built in
Just type in your question to access the help information.
Installing your web
site:
Note: this process only installs
the necessary files to create a web site template, you will need to proceed to the
next step (Creating a new web site) before you are able to open and edit your
web site
- Once you have downloaded your web site, locate the installation
file on your hard drive,
- Double click the file to start the installation process.
The web site files will be added to your Microsoft office directories, and shared
folders. The installation package does not create a directory for your web site.
This is done in the next step, Creating a new web site with your new template.
- On the File menu, point
to New, and then click
Page or Web.
- In the New Page or
Web task pane, under New from template,
click Web Site Templates.
- Click the web site template theme name located in the
template window.
- In the
Specify the location of the
new web box, type the URL for the new web site, or click
Browse to create a new site on your hard disk,
network, or on the Internet. Mocrosoft recommends creating the web site locally
first, then uploading to your server.
- Note To create a subweb, append the
name of the subweb to the name of the root web. For example: http://adventure-works.com/subweb.
- Choose one of the following:
- If you want to add the site to the current web site,
select Add to current Web.
- If you are creating a Microsoft FrontPage web on a secure
port of a Web server that supports
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
select the Secure connection
required (SSL) checkbox.
In Page view, do one the
following:
Method 1 - Create a page from an existing blank
website page:
- In the "File" view, select the file you wish to copy
- On the "Edit" menu select "copy"
- On the "Edit menu select "paste"
Method 2 - Create a page from a blank page (most
recommended)
- In the "File" view, select the file you wish to copy
- On the "File" menu select "save as"
- You will be creating a copy of the original, give this
copy a name, and click OK
- Your copied page will be added to the folder list
- Locate the page in your Folder List
- Select the page, and press the delete key on your keyboard.
- You can also delete a web page from the Navigation window,
by selecting the page in Navigation view, right click, choose delete, and the
second option presented, "delete this page from web".
Method one:
- Find the page in your folder list
- Select the page, right click, choose "rename", type
in the new name, and then add the extension (.htm)
Method two:
- Click on the Folders icon, from the "Views" menu (right
hand side).
- to edit pages located in the root of your web site,
click on the top folder (c:\Documents and Settings\.....)
- select the page in the Folders window
- right click, and select "rename"
- press your "tab" key to move the focus to the page "Title"
then change the name
- Access the Navigation window by clicking on the Navigation
button in the views menu
- Drag your new page into the navigation window, and drop
it to create a "top level" page, or drag it underneath an existing page to add
it to the navigation structure.
- Select the new page, right click on the page title,
and enter the name you would like displayed on for the menu buttons link
- As in the example above, "About Us" will be displayed
as the menu button name. The title of the page in the navigation view does not
need to be the same as the name of the page. You could give your page a title
such as "About Us" yet, name the htm page "about.htm"
All of our templates us Cascading Style Sheets. This helps
to conform the text on each page, to be the same. It also sets the size of the text,
font style, font type, and color. Using CSS is very important for maintaining the
structure of your tables that contain text. What you type into your table and see
in your browser, would not always be the same thing that your visitors sees, if
it weren't for CSS.
Some additional information on adjusting the CSS in your
web site:
To modify a style that is contained in an external cascading
style sheet (CSS), do the following:
Notes
- If you're familiar with CSS syntax, you can edit the
text of the CSS directly on the style sheet in Page
view.
- This procedure works for both a style sheet you create
and for a CSS generated for a theme.
Edit an embedded CSS
In Page view, do one or both
of the following:Modify a style
- From the Normal
pane, click the Format menu, and then click
Style.
- In the List box, click
the type of style you want to modify.
- To modify a style you created, click
User-defined styles.
- To modify a standard HTML tag, click
All HTML tags.
- In the Styles list,
double-click the style you want to modify.
- Under Style type,
choose Paragraph or
Character.
- Click Format, and
then specify the attributes you want to format:
- To set font properties — such as the font family
or color, or character spacing — click Font.
- To set alignment, indentation, or spacing, click
Paragraph.
- To set borders and shading, click
Border.
- To set the style of bullets and numbering, click
Numbering.
- To set positioning properties — such as wrapping
style, location, or z-order — click Position.
- Close all dialog boxes to return to the page.
Create a user-defined style
- From the Normal
pane, click the Format menu, and then click
Style.
- Click New, and then
in the Name (selector) box, type a
name for the user-defined style.
- Under Style type,
choose Paragraph or
Character.
- Click Format, and
then specify the attributes you want to format:
- To set font properties — such as the font family
or color, or character spacing — click Font.
- To set alignment, indentation, or spacing, click
Paragraph.
- To set borders and shading, click
Border.
- To set the style of bullets and numbering, click
Numbering.
- To set positioning properties — such as wrapping
style, location, or z-order — click Position.
- Close all dialog boxes to return to the page.
- The flash animations included with the FrontPage template
pages can easily be removed by selecting them while in page view, then pressing
the delete key on your keyboard. A background image will be displayed, and you
can add text or images into the cell where the flash animation was.
Please check with your ISP to ensure that your hosting
plan has the FrontPage extensions, and they are activated. Most web host do, but
you need to manually activate them through your web site control panel, usually
by logging into your hosting account on-line.
If you are using FrontPage 2002, many hosts are still using
FrontPage 2003 server extensions as the default. You will need to ensure that your
FrontPage 2002 extensions are enabled if you wish to take advantage of the added
benefits of FP2002.
Here is the process involved with publishing your web site:
If your Internet service provider (ISP) has the Microsoft
FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft installed,
you can publish to the Web server using HTTP. Otherwise, you can use Microsoft FrontPage
to publish your web site to an FTP server.
Note If you publish to a location on
your local computer, your web site will not have the full FrontPage functionality
unless your computer is a server that has the server extensions or SharePoint Team
Services installed.
Choose one of the following:
Publish to a Web server (HTTP)
- On the File menu, click
Publish Web.
- In the Publish
Destination dialog box, do one of the following:
- Type the location of a Web server.
- Click the arrow to select a location to which you
have already published another web site.
- Click Browse to
find the publishing location.
Note If you have previously chosen
a publishing destination for this web site, the
Publish Destination dialog box will
not appear. Proceed to step 4.
- Click OK.
- Specify the pages you want to publish.
How?
- In the Publish
Web dialog box, click Options in the
lower left corner.
- Click the Publish
tab, and do one or more of the following:
- Under Publish,
specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all
pages.
- Under Changes,
specify how you want Microsoft FrontPage to determine which pages have
been changed.
- If you want to create a log file for changes
made during publishing, select that check box.
- Click OK.
- To publish subwebs, select the
Include subwebs check box.
- Click Publish.
FrontPage publishes your web site to the Web server
you specified. If you want to verify that your web site was successfully published,
click the hyperlink that is displayed after the web has been published — your
web browser will open to the site you just published.
Note If you cancel publishing in
the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on
the destination Web server.
Publish to an FTP server
- On the File menu, click
Publish Web.
- In the Publish
Destination dialog box type the location of the FTP server, or click the
arrow to select a location to which you have already published another web site.
Note If you have previously chosen
a publishing destination for this web site, the
Publish Destination dialog box will
not appear. Proceed to step 4.
- Click OK.
- Specify the pages you want to publish.
How?
- In the Publish
Web dialog box, click Options in the
lower left corner.
- Click the Publish
tab, and do one or more of the following:
- Under Publish,
specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all
pages.
- Under Changes,
specify how you want FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.
- If you want to create a log file for changes
made during publishing, select that check box.
- Click OK.
- To publish subwebs, select the
Include subwebs check box.
- Click Publish.
FrontPage publishes your web site to the FTP server
you specified.
Note If you cancel publishing in
the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on
the destination Web server.
Publish to a location on your local computer
- On the File menu, click
Publish Web.
- In the Publish
Destination dialog box, do one of the following:
- Type the path — for example C:\My Website — to the
folder on your file system.
- Click Browse to
locate the folder.
Note If you have previously chosen
a publish destination for this web site, the
Publish Destination dialog box will
not appear. Proceed to step 4.
- Click OK.
- Specify the pages you want to publish.
How?
- In the Publish
Web dialog box, click Options in the
lower left corner.
- Click the Publish
tab, and do one or more of the following:
- Under Publish,
specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all
pages.
- Under Changes,
specify how you want FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.
- If you want to create a log file for changes
made during publishing, select that check box.
- Click OK.
- To publish subwebs, select the
Include subwebs check box.
- Click Publish.
Note If you cancel publishing in the
middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the
destination folder.