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Day Two
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Adding and Deleting Pages
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Add a new Page
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Create a new page in the Folder View
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FILE > New > Page or Web
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Select
New Blank Page
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Use
File > Save As
command to name the new page.
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Switch to Navigation View
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Add it to the Navigation View using
drag and drop. Drag the new page from the Folder List into the
Navigation Pane, and use the automatic connecting lines to attach it to
the right place in the web hierarchy.
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Name the page in the Navigation View
the name you give it here is the name that will automatically appear in
the Page Banner on your web site.
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Deleting a page
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From Folder View just highlight the
page and delete.
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From Navigation View just highlight
the page and delete.
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From Existing Published Web - When you
are working with a published Web site on an Internet/intranet server,
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 does not automatically delete pages from the
server that you have already deleted on your development (local)
computer when re-publishing your site. Using the new enhanced Publishing
dialog box, there are two ways you can sync deletes between your
published and local sites.
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To use enhanced publishing to delete
files or folders on the published site, open a new or existing Web in
FrontPage 2002 and do the following:
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On the File menu, click Publish Web.
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In the Publish dialog box, click
Options and select the Publish tab.
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Under Publish:, select the Changed
pages only option and click OK.
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Click Publish and FrontPage will ask if
you want to delete the pages and files that are present on the server,
but not in your current Web.
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Click Yes to delete the specified file
in the prompt or Yes to All to delete all of the files that you deleted
from the current Web..
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To delete by hand a file or folder on
the published site using the enhanced Publishing dialog box, do the
following:
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On the File menu, click Publish Web.
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In the Publish Web dialog, click the
Show>> button to show the contents of the server you're publishing to.
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In the right pane (which displays the
files that have been published), select the file you want to delete by
clicking it.
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Click the X icon above the right pane.
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More information - For more information
about publishing Webs, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.
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Adding Text
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Typing into a Web Page
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Inserting Existing Text by using
copy/paste functions in existing text files.
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Word or other text files simply
highlight the desired test in MS Word, Copy, then change screens to the
FrontPage screen, position the cursor where you want to insert the text,
and click Paste.
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Excel Spreadsheets if you have
inventory lists or price lists in Excel, they can be added to a web site
the same way as Word documents.
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Other web sites again select the
desired text, copy and paste.
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Formatting Text simply highlight the
text you want to change and change it as you would in Word.
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From the Format Menu
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From the text formatting tool bar
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Creating a Hyperlink in the text body
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From the Insert Menu
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From the Hyperlink Icon on the tool bar.
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By right clicking on the desired place
and selecting Hyperlink from the context menu.
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Changing Your Theme
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Selecting and Applying a Theme - You can
change the look quickly and easily on all pages in your Web site or just
one page in your site using themes in Microsoft FrontPageฎ 2002. Themes
apply consistent fonts and other formatting across a single page or all
pages in your site. There are many new themes and the rest have been
updated. Each has its own look and feel, including coordinated bullets,
buttons, background, page banner, horizontal line, and font styles.
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Modifying or Customizing a Theme - In
addition, you can apply a virtually limitless variety of formatting
options to these 67 themes because they are all customizable. To
customize a Theme, open a new or existing web in FrontPage 2002, and do
the following:
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On the Format menu, select Themes.
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In the list box on the left, select a
Theme and a preview of it will appear in the Sample of Theme: window.
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To customize your theme, select the
Modify button.
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Under What would you like to modify?,
select:
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the Colors button to change the color
scheme of a theme
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the Graphics button to change the
graphics used in a theme
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the Text button to change the text
styles used in a theme
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Click OK to return to the Themes dialog
box.
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Under Apply Theme to: choose whether to
apply the changes to All pages in your web or only Selected page(s).
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Click Save As, enter a name for your
modified Theme and click OK.
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Now, click OK to apply the theme. Tip
When you modify a preset theme, you must save your changes to a new
theme; you cannot overwrite a preset theme.
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Shared Borders
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Shared Borders allows you to define
borders at the top, bottom, left, and or right of your page that will be
exactly the same from one page to the next. This way you can put
company logo, navigation links, ads, page banners, and other elements in
your site without having to add them manually to every page.
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Go to Format > Shared Borders.
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The Shared Borders dialog box opens.
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Select a radio button to apply the
shared border to the current page only, or all pages
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Select the check boxes for the borders
you wish to create. If you check the
Include Navigation Buttons
box, FrontPage will automatically insert Link Bars based on your web
site design (see below).
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Clicking on the
Border Properties
button opens another dialog box that will allow you to apply different
colors or graphics to you border areas.
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Page Banners
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A page banner is a title box usually
found at the top of your web page. If included in a Shared Border area,
the Banner will display consistently on all your pages, but will display
a different title of your choice for each page.
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Go to Insert > Page Banner
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The Page banner dialog box opens, and
you can choose to show only text, or a picture based on your theme. You
can enter or edit the text displaded inside the Page Banner in the
provided box.
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A quick way to get back to the page
banner box is by Right Clicking on the Page banner, and selecting
Page Banner Properties from the Context Menu.
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Creating Navigation Structure for your
Web Site
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When you design your Web site, one of
the most important considerations is providing a logical navigation
structure, allowing site visitors to find the content they want quickly
and easily. You want to ensure that site visitors always know where they
are in the site, and provide them with the proper context for the
content they are reading. There
is a good article on navigation structure at WebReference.com.
http://www.webreference.com/graphics/column42/index.html. Microsoft
FrontPage includes the following methods to help you add a navigation
structure to your Web site:
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Link Bars - A link bar is a set of
hyperlinks that enable site visitors to navigate to the pages in your
Web site. You place link bars in a prominent and consistent location on
each page, and they act as a map to the pages you designate. You can
create link bars with either graphic or text hyperlinks.
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When you create your Web site, you can
either create link bars that you specify the links for, or add a link
bar that is based on the navigation structure of your site. FrontPage
maintains the link bars you create; if you move or add a page, FrontPage
updates the link bar accordingly. You can format your link bars in the
following ways:
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You can place link bars horizontally or
vertically on a page.
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You can add more than one link bar to
each page, for example to navigate to different page levels.
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You can change the style of a link bar
that uses buttons instead of text.
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The types of link bars that you can add
to your Web site include the following:
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Creating Link Bars based on Web Site
Structure for your Web Site
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After you have designed your Web site
and determined a hierarchical and logical flow for the content, you can
add a link bar based on that navigation structure. The structure
determines which hyperlinks you will assign to the link bar, and the
node labels determine the labels for those hyperlinks. The following
example shows the structure of a Web site in Navigation view and an
explanation of the relationships among the pages in the site:
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Home page The first page that is added
to a navigation structure is typically named Default.htm or Index.htm,
and is indicated by the home page icon. In the preceding example, Home
is the home page.
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Global level pages These pages are at
the same level as but do not include the home page. In the preceding
example, the global level page is Contacts.
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Parent level pages These pages are
located directly above another page or pages, including pages that are
directly connected to the parent level page on the same level (with the
exception of the Home page). In the preceding example, the parent level
page for What's New is Home.
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Child level pages One or more pages
that are located directly below a parent level page. In the preceding
example, Home has three child level pages (What's New, Products, and
Services), Contacts has one child level page (Jobs), and Products has
two child level pages (Search and Ordering).
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Same level pages Pages that are on the
same level in the hierarchical structure and share the same parent level
page. In the preceding example, What's New, Products, and Services are
same level pages; Search and Ordering are also same level pages.
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Back and next pages In the preceding
example, if you add a link bar that includes back and next links to the
Products page, the next link directs the site visitor to Services and
the back link directs the site visitor to What's New.
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When you add a link bar that includes
back and next links, FrontPage relies on the navigation structure of the
Web site to automatically set up those links. You can add hyperlinks to
the home page and to the parent level page of the active page by using
the link bar properties dialog box. Additionally, in Navigation view,
you can create links to external Web pages.
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Creating Custom Link Bars for your Web
Site
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When you add a custom link bar, you can
link to any of the pages within your Web site, as well as to external
pages. You can set the link bar up in any way that you want, you can add
back and next links, and you can add and remove pages from it at any
time.
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Table of Contents
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You can configure FrontPage to
automatically generate a table of contents based on the categories
(category: A classification for labeling and grouping Web pages and
files by common criteria such as page contents, file types, or a similar
distinction.) that you assign to your pages. For users of FrontPage
client software that connect to servers running FrontPage Server
Extensions, you can configure FrontPage to automatically generate a
table of contents based on the navigation structure of your Web site.
While the actual links do not display in FrontPage, they do in the Web
browser.
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You can format your table of contents
for example, change the heading font size and you can also set it so
that FrontPage automatically recalculates the table of contents whenever
you edit a page in your Web site.
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Site Map
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When you create a site map, you select
the categories that you want and create a Table of Contents, and this
makes up the list of all the pages belonging to those categories
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For a personal or small Web site, you
can create a site map with a list of hyperlinks to all the Web site's
pages, by using the Table of Contents Web component.
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For a corporate presence or large Web
site, a site map typically contains lists of hyperlinks to pages in
different subsites, categories, or other groups organized under logical
headings. For example, if you sell appliances, your site map might have
columns of hyperlinks for Large Appliances, Small Appliances, and
Customer Service. You can create this kind of site map by using
categories.
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Your Own Hyperlinks
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Linking to Other Pages on your Web
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Linking to Other Websites
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Linking to Existing Places on the page
using Bookmarks
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