Quick Launch - FrontPage

Course Length: 1/2 day, 8:30 am – Noon or 1:00pm - 4:30 pm

Course Description

Overview: 

Students enrolling in this course will learn the basics for creating and revising disk-based websites with some discussion of creating public websites. We will plan the site, create pages and text, insert images, and link items within the site and to external websites.

Benefits: 

After taking this course, students will be able to create and manage simple, effective websites.

Target student: 

The target student for this course is someone who is comfortable with the Windows environment and Microsoft Word or other word-processing software. It is helpful to have some background with Microsoft PowerPoint but you can do well in this course without it.

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Plan a website and use the Navigation view to create pages.
Edit and format a web page using a variety of techniques.
Insert pictures and tables
Insert bookmarks and hyperlinks to navigate the web and to reach out to other websites.

Lesson 1: Web Sites, web sites, web pages

Web sites: collections of documents that are available through the Internet
web sites: collections of documents meant for internal use only
Web page: a single document to be viewed with a browser

Lesson 2: Planning A Web

Central point: home page (index.htm, default.htm)
Arrange other pages from home page
Design techniques in FrontPage and PowerPoint

Lesson 3: FrontPage Environment

Views
Toolbars and Menus
Screens and working areas

Lesson 4: Creating A Web

Creating a web
Navigation view
New File button
Saving Your New File
Text
Tables

Lesson 5: Images

Types of Images
Prepare images before you insert them
Images In-Line or in a table

Lesson 6: Hyperlinks

Links on page, within site, within network, out to Web
Bookmarks on page to move users quickly
Links to pages, documents and sites to help users get more information
Using the External Link

Lesson 7: Shared Borders

Used to share elements among most or all pages
Text, graphics, navigation bars
Shared Border With Navigation Bar
Shared Border With Navigation Bar
Use Navigation View to Add Pages to Navigation Bar

Lesson 8: Themes and Background

Combinations of backgrounds, fonts, colors and buttons
Images used behind page content

Lesson 9: Posting Your Web

Disk-based web: visitors see changes as soon as you save
Server-based web: copy changed files to server directory
Remotely-hosted web: use FTP program to copy changed files to web
FrontPage file menu has Publish option to help