Creating
your FrontPage 2000 web site
- After
you have installed FrontPage to your workstation, open the
program from your Start, Programs menu in Windows.
- After
the application opens, you'll be presented with a blank page.
You can start entering text or go up to the toolbar to change
the text colors, etc. just like in any other MS Office 2000
application.
- Once
you have tried a few different things out, right-click anywhere
in the new page you've been working in. Choose Page Properties...
- Here
you can change the page title, that appears on the web browser's
toolbar when you view your web pages, the background color,
link colors, etc.
- If
you want to use a "theme" that was included with
the application, close out of the Properties window and select "Theme..." from
the Format drop down menu. Select the theme you like best,
or not one at all, and click okay.
- Go
to the File drop down menu when done with the page, and choose
Save As... and save your file. You will want to save your
files to the default directory that appears under Save As...
unless you have used FrontPage before and understand how
subwebs and webs work on your PC.
- When
ready to start a new page, go to the File drop down menu,
and select New > Page. If you implemented a theme in the
earlier step, you'll notice the theme appears automatically
in the new page. If you did not, you will need to manually
configure the way the page looks.
- You
can link the pages together by going to the Navigation view
(clickable on the left-hand side of the FrontPage window)
and clicking on the files and dragging and dropping them
together.
- Once
you've created several pages, and are ready to practice publishing,
read the next section.
- Remember:
Practice makes perfect. Once you start to play around with
the program a lot, you'll learn about the many new and cool
things that you can add to your site, like message boards,
forms, images, links, etc.
- You
can always buy an additional book on getting started with
FrontPage if the manual does not contain enough detail.
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Publishing
your FrontPage 2000 web site
Once
you are done building your pages or making changes to existing
ones, you are ready to publish. The steps below are the same
steps you will take every time you need to publish your web
or make changes to it.
- Connect
to the Internet. (Do this before opening FrontPage. If FrontPage
is already open close it down, connect, then reopen it).
- If
you don't already have FrontPage open, open it, and go to File,
Open to open the web site that you would like to publish. (The
web should be already saved to your PC).
- Once
the web is open, go to File, Publish Web...
- Enter
in either your site's web address or IP address that were sent
to you when you signed up the account. If you know that your
domain is already active (it's propagated) then you will likely
want to enter http://www.[insertyourdomain.com] into the field.
- Then
click Publish.
- As
long as your FrontPage application locates your web address
on the Internet and verifies that the FrontPage server extensions
are installed (see the "Getting your site FrontPage ready" section
on this page), you will then be prompted for the username and
password for your account.
- Enter
in both the username and password exactly as they were sent
to you. Our web servers are case sensitive.
- After
you have done this, you will see the pages start to publish
to the site.
- When
the publishing is done, you will be presented with a link to
view your web site. Click on the link and it will take you
to the site.
- If
you want to make any changes, just go back into FrontPage,
make the changes and publish again as outlined above.
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