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FrontPage - Webpage Basics


FrontPage is a web page editor that allows you to quickly and easily create pages for the web. Here you will learn about design, layout, navigation and how to create an interesting web page.

Getting Ideas

Sometimes it may be hard to know exactly what to do to attract the right audience to your website.  It is important to do a lot of brainstorming before you begin to make your web page.  The more planning and organization that you do in the beginning, the more time you will save in the long run. 

Storyboarding

Before you begin to create your website, there are a lot of things to consider.  One of the most important is the layout and look of the site. It is a good idea to sketch the layout of the page(s) on a piece of paper. 

to see a storyboard sketch

This general layout is easy to create in FrontPage

to see a viewlet on applying your storyboard


Defining Your Site

It's important to define your site, especially if it's a huge site with lots of folders, because defining your site ensures that the relative file names won't switch over to their absolute file names when you try to put your web site on the hosting server causing pictures to not load and links to be broken.

to learn about defining your site and some very detailed FrontPage Basics.


Tables

It is a good idea to use tables opposed to frames when creating a website.  Frames are usually very confusing for the viewer and are very frustrating at times, they often prevent a page from being printable and sometimes bookmarked.  We suggest using tables in creating the layout of your site. 

Tables and/or charts are very easy to make and modify.  Charts and tables make it easy to show results of projects, comparisons, etc.  They allow you to see all of the information at once in a easy to read format. 

Once you have created your table, you can make a number of modifications to things such as the table, text, or cell format, borders and shading, etc. 

to see a viewlet on Creating and Modifying Tables.


Copyright

It is very important that you consider Issues of Copyright when using images from the web.

to learn more about Issues of Copyright


Publishing a Website

Posting your site makes it available for everyone to see on the web.  This is done by placing all of the site contents into a WWW folder on the server. 

for instructions on posting your website.


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