Section 1 - Introduction

• Changing screen resolution

Section 2 - Web Site Basics

• What is a web site?
• Files, pages, text, graphics, audio, video
• Hard drive space
• Download time
• Definition of HTML
• HTML's role in FrontPage
• Creating a web site plan
• Basic concepts
• Intro to Web design and home page structure
• Hyperlinks
• Definition of URL - Universal Resource Locator

Section 3 - The FrontPage Environment

• Opening FrontPage
• Making FrontPage the default editor
• Title bar
• Control menu
• Minimize/Restore/Maximize/Close buttons
• Deleting the record of previous commands
• Introduction to:
• Menu bar
• Standard toolbar
• Icon name and function view
• Formatting toolbar
• Workspace area
• Opening FrontPage Web
• Task pane and options
• Web site templates
• Wizards
• Modifying a template
• Introduction to:
• Creating and storing a new Web
• My Webs file folder list
• .htm = HTML file
• Index page
• The sample Web's home page (template)
• Home page banner
• Hand holding paper cursor icon
• Hyperlinks
• Hit counter
• Text and formats
• Navigation bar with links
• Status bar
• Download progress indicator
• Modems: 56k, Cable, DSL
• Selecting connection speed
• View buttons:
• Preview
• HTML
• Normal
• Folders list
• Navigation
• Navigation pane
• Workspace tabs

Section 4 - The Views Bar

• Template Page view
• Normal
• Editing mark
• Comment text
• Place holders
• Intro to: Page banner properties and indicator cursor
• Navigation bar for template
• Folders view
• Folder List bar
• File names, titles, size, type, etc.
• Reports view
• Site Summary
• Reporting toolbar
• Definition of kilobyte, megabyte, ISP
• Intro to FrontPage abbreviations
• Navigation view
• Site's construction
• Pages and relationship
• Add a page
• Removing pages
• Renaming pages
• Hyperlinks view
• Intro to http:// external links
• Broken links
• Internal links
• Navigational links
• Plus sign links indicator
• Tasks view
• General purpose task
• Task associated with a file
• Manually or automatically created

Section 5 - Working with the Template

• Working with a personal design template
• Changing heading title from Page banner properties
• From the Formatting toolbar, change font and size
• Selecting and replacing text with existing file
• Shortcuts: Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, and Ctrl+V
• Highlight header and delete
• Entering and aligning links in links column
• Modifying links column width
• Copy and paste links within different tabs from the workspace
• Intro to tables
• Adding a page to the navigation structure to display links
• Adding a page to the navigation structure to display links
• Selecting and deleting cells from the table drop-down menu

Section 6 - Saving in FrontPage

• Saving web site vs. saving individual web pages
• File/Save As
• Page titles and file names
• Index.htm
• Unsaved changes' asterisk indicator on page tabs
• Save icon on toolbar
• File/Save All
• Close page without saving
• Save warning boxes
• Importance of saving often

Section 1 - Introduction

• Open and maximize FrontPage
  

Section 2 -Themes

• Learning to be consistent
• Exploring themes from normal page view
• Themes dialog box
• Options list and preview window
• Installing and downloading additional themes
• Personalizing themes
• Modify button
• Modify Theme box and sample windows
• 1. Colors button
• Color schemes tab
• Color wheel tab - Difficult to undo changes
• Custom tab - Item list and Color drop-down menus
• Select color palette tool
• Value
• New and Current color preview area
• Custom button
• 2. Graphics button
• Picture tab
• Font tab - Family of fonts
• Alignment
• Active graphics
• Caution about changing backgrounds
• Creating, saving, and activating personalized themes
• Permanently replacing format warning message
• Using the Save All command

Section 3 - Working with Tables

• Three ways of placing tables on a page
• Table/Insert/Table
• Table/Draw Table
• Insert Table icon
• Insert table Properties dialog box
• Size
• Rows
• Columns
• Layout
• Alignment
• Specify width in pixels or in percent
• Viewer's screen resolution results
• Border size
• Cell padding
• Cell spacing
• Set as default for new tables
• Opening and moving Tables toolbar
• Intro to Tables tool icons
• Merging cells
• Clicking and dragging text into a cell
• Convert table to text command
• Importing an Excel file as a table
• Shortcut menu to table properties
• Changing table's font size and distributing columns and rows evenly

Section 4 - Working with Images

• Choosing images
• Quick to load
• Easy to read
• Image compression formats - GIFs and JPGs
• Different types of photos and graphic images
• Inserting multiple image files with toolbar icon
• Changing cell height from the Cell Properties dialog box
• Centering cell contents using the Format toolbar
• Picture Properties dialog box
• Appearance tab
• Using Wrapping Style commands
• Layout
• Resizing images and keeping aspect ratio
• General tab
• Picture source
• Type
• Alternative representations - Loading and placeholders
• Save Embedded Files box
• Change Folder, Set Action, and Picture Options buttons
• Adding comments under images
• Previewing changes
• Photo Gallery Properties dialog box
• Pictures tab
• Add
• Edit
• Remove
• Move
• Size
• Format text for caption
• Layout tab
• Preset styles
• Preview area & features
• Shortcut to select all from list using the Shift key
• Adding pictures to the gallery
• Creating image captions
• Editing images
• Size
• Rotate
• Crop

Section 5 - Thumbnails and Anchors

• Auto-thumbnail feature
• Download time, visual appeal, and web site functionality
• Creating an auto-thumbnail
• Bevel edges
• Using text wrap selection from image to modify layout
• Anchoring images with text
• Centering images within a table column
• Shortcut of copying and pasting text format

Section 6 - Hyperlinks and Bookmarks

• Definition of hyperlinks
• Web page address translations
• Creating an internal hyperlink
• Shortcut menu to Hyperlink Properties dialog box
• Link to:
• Text to display:
• ScreenTip button
• Look in:
• Current folder
• Browsed pages
• Recent files
• Bookmark button
• Target Frame button
• Parameters button
• Style button
• Remove Link button
• Caution on linked documents not imported to web site
• Insert table using the Table icon
• Add images with auto-thumbnails
• Assigning bookmarks to images
• Accessing Hyperlink dialog box from Insert drop-down menu
• There are no bookmarks in this document warning box
• # sign bookmark indicator
• Hyperlink toolbar icon
• Shortcut menu to Hyperlink
• Shortcut of Control+K
• Inserting external hyperlinks by:
• Manually typing address
• Copying and pasting address
• Selecting address from browsed pages
• Creating and editing e-mail links with a customized subject line

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Shared Borders and Graphics

• Frames OR shared borders
• Renaming and creating shared borders files
• Opening Shared Borders dialog box from Format drop-down menu
• Apply to: All pages or Current page
• Select area of page
• Border Properties button
• Entering border text
• Open Insert Web Component box by:
• Clicking the Web Component toolbar icon or
• Using the insert drop-down menu/Web Component
• Component types
• Choose an effect
• Marquee Properties dialog box
• Placing navigation buttons as link bars based on navigation structure
• Selecting a border style, orientation, and hyperlink page level
• Displaying links bar by adding page to navigation view page
• Don't Publish option
• Adding Save All icon to toolbar

Section 3 - Working with Frames

• Creating a frames page from Page Templates dialog box
• Frames terminology
• Set Initial Page or New Page options
• Formatting text
• Changing theme background
• Shortcut menu to Page Properties box
• General tab - Title
• Custom tab - Remove user variable
• Background tab - Formatting
• Definition of Watermark in Web construction
• Save All/Save As frame pages - Preview area
• Creating a new page as part of a frames page
• Inserting and formatting Hover buttons
• Resizing frames to accommodate button widths
• Checking Target Frame setting in preview area
• Adding the frames place holder page to navigation tree

Section 4 - Adding Custom Forms

• Types of forms
• Form fields
• Text boxes
• Checkmark boxes
• Option buttons
• Submit button
• Reset button
• Steps in creating forms
• Design layout and add form fields
• Set data entry rules
• Collecting and viewing data
• Intro to creating a template confirmation page
• Creating a form page from scratch
• Inserting a blank form to a page
• Modifying form buttons
• Shortcut menu to Form Field Properties dialog box
• Assigning unique page button names to submit and reset buttons
• Importance of keeping a list to track forms' field names
• Inserting:
• Text boxes
• Text boxes
• Check boxes
• Option buttons
• Group boxes - Adding tables within
• Shortcut to Table Properties dialog box
• Testing option buttons
• Form handlers
• Warning of ISPs not supporting FrontPage server extension files
• Testing forms only after publishing site

Section 5 - Making Forms Function

• Entering field parameters from Text Box properties
• Name
• Initial value
• Width in characters
• Tab order
• Password field
• Validate button
• Text box validation
• Display name
• Data type
• Text format
• Numeric format
• Data length
• Data value
• Push Button Properties dialog box
• Storing and collecting form data results
• Shortcut menu to Form Properties dialog box
• Send to:
• File name
• E-mail address
• Database
• Other
• From name
• Target frame

Section 6 - Using the Forms Wizard

• Creating a form using the Forms Wizard
• Opening the Form Page Wizard dialog box
• Type of input to collect options list
• Description
• Editing question prompts
• Data to collect
• List presentation
• Saving results to a text file
• Moving and saving to another web page
• Shortcut:(Ctrl+A) to select all
• Shortcut menu to cut and paste
• Modifying page's font style by highlighting whole page
• Renaming field labels
• Editing default author information
• Inserting drop-down boxes from Properties dialog box
• Adding choices
• Setting defaults
• Text strings
• Modify, Remove, Move Up, and Move Down buttons
• Allowing multiple sections
• Adding and editing pictures in place of buttons
• Creating confirmation pages
• Web component hover indicator
• Opening Form Field Properties dialog box
• Renaming fields using original form's field names list
• Inserting additional confirmation fields
• Modifying the text on a confirmation form
• Shortcut: (Ctrl+K) to insert a hyperlink

Section 7 - Testing Your Site

• Opening the Tasks View page
• Shortcut menu to New Task dialog box
• Adding high priority tasks
• Spell-checks and final visual reviews
• Changing task status
• Using the spell-check function from:
• Tools drop-down menu
• Spell-check
• Spell-check errors on tasks list
• Shortcut menu to Task options
• Edit
• Start
• Mark complete
• Delete
• Saving spelling corrections and deleting tasks
• Testing hyperlinks from the Hyperlinks View page
• Expanding the diagram
• Broken links
• Reports/Site Summary View page
• Unverified and broken links check
• Broken Hyperlinks list
• Editing and replacing links
• Recalculating Hyperlinks
• Testing the Web with different browsers and settings
• Disabling: run scripts, Java applets, "Active X" controls

Section 8 - Publishing Your Site

• Reviewing the web site before publishing
• Making a complete and accurate copy of web site
• Caution - Publish Web from File drop-down menu vs. Publish Web icon tool work differently
• Using the Publish Destination command
• Finding a Web hosting service using the Web Presence Provider search page
• Publishing changed pages only
• Taking a test drive