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Chapter 1 ✦ Getting to Know FrontPage
If you have a Web server, enter the Web address’s URL in the drop-down box
labeled “Specify the location of the new web” in the Web Site Templates dialog box.
After you select a template and click OK, you’ll be connected to your Web server
and prompted to enter a user name and password.
An additional option is to install a Web server on your local computer (see Chapter 3).
Defining a home page
After you generate a Web, the next step is to create a home page. All templates
(except the Empty Web template) will generate one for you.
A home page is the page that opens when a visitor goes to your URL with their
browser. FrontPage templates usually assign the filename Default.htm to the
generated home page, but home pages can also be named Default.html,
Index.htm, Index.html, or either Index or Default with an .asp filename
extension. Because FrontPage generates the page for you and assigns a filename,
you don’t need to know or worry about page-naming rules, just note the page
FrontPage creates.
If you used the Personal Web template or the One Page Web, your Web opens with a
home page. Figure 1-6 shows a new Web generated by the One Page Web template,
with a lonely-looking home page in the middle of Navigation view.
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Selecting a Location for Your Web Site
If you have just unwrapped your copy of FrontPage and installed it, this discussion of where
to save your Web site may seem a bit daunting. However, after you complete the process of
deciding where to save your Web site, you don’t have to make that decision again. In addi-
tion, you can easily change the location of your Web site. As long as you’ve chosen one of
the options previously discussed, you can automatically publish your Web site to the
Internet or an intranet, and FrontPage will handle all your file transfers automatically.
You can bypass the entire process of selecting a Web site location by clicking the New but-
ton on the toolbar and choosing Page or Web Site when you start to create new Web pages.
If you do that, you can still create individual Web pages, but you lose much of FrontPage’s
power to manage all of your files and transfer them from one Web location to another.
If you’re just starting out with FrontPage, save your Web to a local folder on your computer.
Later, you can explore options for obtaining server space from a Web server provider.
On the other hand, if you need your site on the World Wide Web now, you can contract
more or less instantly with a Web server provider. Visit
www.microsoft.com/frontpage to
find a service provider. These providers will help you grab a domain name and sign you up
for the Web space and features you need.
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