Microsoft Frontpage Introduction

Course Contents

Designing a website

• Common Terminology
• Understanding the URL
• Organizing your Web’s structure
• Mapping out your web
• Understanding good Web design
• Frontpage Navigation

Forntpage Essentials

• Webs
• Pages
• Hyperlinks
• Preview in Browser
• Creating new One Page Web
• Choosing location and naming web.

Frontpage Files

• Creating new pages
• Saving new pages and renaming pages
• Importing Pages
• Using the Folder List.
• Creating and deleting folders
• Moving pages to folders

Working wit Text

• Entering, editing and deleting text
• Move and Copy text
• Using Line breaks
• Inserting Dates and Times
• Using the Spell Checker and Thesaurus
• Using the Find and Replace Features
• Formatting the Font using the menu and Toolbar
• Changing character spacing and positions
• Removing Font formats
• Inserting special text characters
• Using the Preview Tab
• Previewing in browser
• Changing Alignments
• Using Indentations
• Applying Paragraph Spacing
• Applying Borders and Shading

Lists

• Create lists using Bullets and Numbers
• Changing Bullets and Number styles
• Using Images as bullets

Page Properties

• Changing the Page Title
• Changing page background colour
• Using Images as a background
• Using background sounds
• Changing the margins
• Using Page Set-up
• Using Page Transitions

Images

• Inserting a horizontal line
• Formatting a horizontal line
• Inserting Clipart
• Inserting Pictures from File
• Saving Pages with Images
• Moving, Resizing and Deleting Images
• Changing the Image Position
• Applying text wrapping around images
• Changing picture file format
• Changing Image Borders, Colour's, Alignments
• Flipping and Rotating Images
• Washing out colour's, changing images to Black and White
• Changing the Contrast and Brightness of Images
• Cropping Images
• Setting Colour transparency

Hyperlinks

• Creating Hyperlinks to other pages
• Following Links
• Removing Hyperlinks
• Creating Email hyperlinks
• Creating Hyperlinks to external websites
• Creating bookmarks
• Creating hyperlinks to bookmarks
• Changing default hyperlink colour's
• Using Images as hyperlinks
• Using hotspots on images to create hyperlinks
• Using the Hyperlinks View.

Tables

• Inserting tables
• Entering text
• Selecting table elements
• Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
• Changing Row Heights and column widths
• Distributing rows and columns evenly
• Splitting Cells
• Merging Cells
• Table Properties
• Applying borders and shading
• Converting tables to text
• Converting text to tables
• Using images within tables
• Using images within tables
• Using the Draw tables feature

The Navigation Bar

• Inserting a standard navigation bar using text and buttons
• Changing Navigation Bar Properties
• Links to Home page
• Creating Parent, child etc.
• Using shared borders as the navigation bar place holder
• Removing Navigation bar

Shared Borders

• Setting Web Shared Borders
• Setting page only Shared Borders
• Using shared borders
• Removing shared borders

Forms

• Creating a Online form
• Inserting form components
• Naming form components
• Adding elements to combo boxes.
• Sending results to text file or email
• Changing the text results name
• Sending results to an email address
• Adding subject and address
• Adding a confirmation page
• Creating custom confirmation page
• Choosing additional fields to save to results
• Creating forms within tables for alignment
• Using the Form Wizard

Frontpage Elements

• Marquee
• Banner Adds
• Hit Counters
• Hover Buttons
• Search Forms
• Scheduled Pictures
• Using Dynamic HTML effects in text
• Inserting Excel Charts, Pivot Tables and spreadsheets
• Video and media files

Frontpage Themes

• Applying themes to Pages or all documents.
• Removing Themes
• Viewing theme formatting and navigation bar features

Site Admin

• Checking Broken Links
• Recalculating links
• Internal Links
• Repeated Links
• Links to Images

Publishing Webs

• Publishing your FrontPage Web to a web server
• Updating your FrontPage Web

Time: The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30.

The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.