User Guide

TOPIC B
Creating an Empty Web
Using your browser, you’ve seen sites others have created using FrontPage on the World Wide
Web. Next, you will tour an existing web in FrontPage and begin creating your own new web
based on a template.
Sure you can create webs using other software applications, but by creating a web and its
pages in FrontPage, you harness the program’s hidden managerial power. FrontPage keeps
track of every file and/or folder in a web. FrontPage keeps track so you don’t have to give
them a second thought. So when you add, remove, or edit a page in a web, FrontPage looks at
how the page is used by the web and “notifies” you of the potential damage the change might
cause. For instance, if you try to delete your web’s home page, FrontPage asks you confirm
the deletion, but it also warns you of the repercussions.
Besides the practical benefits of making a web in FrontPage, creating your own web from
scratch is an invaluable learning experience. Not only will you go through the ups and downs
all other webbies go through, the urgency of a deadline and satisfaction of completing a web,
but you will also familiarize yourself with all the various hats a webmaster must wear—writer,
editor, graphic designer, manager, and so on.
Throughout this book, we will use a variety of job titles synonymously; web developer,
webmaster, designer, webbie, and webber are some examples. Every organization calls the
person in charge of creating webs something different.
View an Existing Web in FrontPage
Procedure
Reference:
Opening webs in FrontPage is really no different than opening a file in other
Office XP applications. The general steps follow.
1
Choose File→Open.
2
Locate the web you want to open.
3
Select it and click Open.
What is
FrontPage
Anyway?
Before we open a web, let’s first firm up what we are talking about whenever
we mention FrontPage. Most importantly, what is it? Microsoft FrontPage 2002
is a convenient and encompassing web building tool available. Leveraging
what you already know about Microsoft Office applications, FrontPage allows
you to create and manage every aspect of a web—from individual web pages
to complicated, dynamic e-commerce enterprise webs. FrontPage is a great
program for novices and experts alike. Using the latest Web standards,
FrontPage is also open-ended enough to allow for any new technologies that
come down the developer’s pike.
LESSON 1
FrontPage 2002 – Level 1 10
Reference Material
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