User Guide

Introduction
You’ve been given the assignment to create a web site for your company. You’ve got
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 installed and have some great ideas. You’re ready to launch the
application and begin pounding out web pages! Not so fast! Although your enthusiasm is to be
applauded, and you will be well underway before this lesson is complete, it’s important to take
a moment to step back and look at the big picture. For instance, what is a site? What actually
goes into creating a site? And so on.
Once you understand what typically goes into creating a new web, you will be better prepared
to examine existing webs, as well as create your own. You will be able to avoid unnecessary
pitfalls, and potentially save you and your company embarrassment.
TOPIC A
Planning: Things to Consider Before
Creating a Web
Before doing anything else, the first step to creating a successful web is to put a web plan in
place.
Benjamin Franklin once wrote in Poor Richard’s Almanac “...a little neglect may breed mis-
chief: for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want
of a horse, the rider was lost...”
You don’t want your site to become lost in the Web shuffle. A clear understanding of what
goes into creating a good web, coupled with intensive planning before you begin producing
any web content, will help you create a clear reason and plan of attack that could save you
countless hours of damage control later—when excuses won’t matter. Remember, the competi-
tion’s site is only a click away.
Webs versus the World Wide Web
The word “web” can be quite vague and it would be best if we cleared up any confusion as to
what we mean by this term and all it entails.
Definition: In the context of FrontPage, a web is a specially designated folder location, or
site, on either your hard drive or on a Web server. Within a web’s folder,
sometimes called the root folder, there can be multiple web pages—documents
written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) with unique filenames and
locations—a variety of subfolders, and even other webs, called subwebs. In
short, a FrontPage-based web is a container to store and manage related files.
A web is not to be confused with the World Wide Web, or the Web, which is a
system of Internet servers that store, or host, individual webs.
LESSON 1
FrontPage 2002 – Level 1 2
Reference Material
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