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Chapter 1 ✦ Getting to Know FrontPage
✦ Folders view: This is a directory of the files that you create in FrontPage.
FrontPage creates two empty folders (
_private and images) when you open
a new Web site. When you save a Web page, or any other element of your Web
site, you’ll see files listed in this view.
✦ Reports view: FrontPage can generate reports that assess the status of your
Web site. The default view that appears when you click the Reports icon in
the View bar displays a summary of the different reports available. You can
view any report by double-clicking it in the Site Summary spreadsheet, or by
selecting a report from the View Reports submenu.
✦ Navigation view: This view enables you to organize all of your different Web
page files into an integrated Web site, and to define navigational links between
pages.
✦ Hyperlinks view: Hyperlinks (or links, for short) are text or graphics that,
when clicked, connect a visitor to another Web page within or outside your
Web site. Links can become corrupted or outdated when Web pages change,
and this view checks them for you.
✦ Tasks view: FrontPage enables several members of a Web design team (or an
individual Web designer) to create lists of things to do. Tasks can be assigned
to different team members, who in turn can check off their progress as the
Web is completed.
Creating a Web site
Because Web sites are collections of Web pages, you can start either by designing
the site structure or by creating the page content. If, for example, you are designing
a site that will include many Web pages created in other Office 2003 applications,
you may not need to do much with page content, and your entire task may involve
orchestrating and organizing all these pages into a Web site. In another scenario,
you may be creating the entire Web site, including its content, from scratch.
In either case, your first task is to create a FrontPage Web, the underlying structure
that holds together, coordinates, and manages all the files in your Web site.
You may be tempted to start designing a Web page without first defining a Web
site. This is a bad idea. Unless you are in a position to make a conscious decision
to circumvent FrontPage’s Web structure, stick with Web design. The only situation
in which you would ever have a reason to create Web pages without creating a
Web structure first is if you aren’t going to use FrontPage to publish your Web to a
server.
When you select File ➪ New from the FrontPage menu, you’ll see the New Task Pane,
as shown in Figure 1-3.
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