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Introduction to WebPages
Before you get started using the powerful capabilities of FrontPage 2003, get a basic understanding of what makes a web site and how we "surf" the world wide web to view the great content that is created around the world.
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Installation and Defaults
Installing FrontPage 2003 is not difficult, however when you start it up for the first time there are some settings that are enabled and/or disabled that might affect the creation of your web masterpieces. Find out what is on or off and how to set yourself up for success.
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Getting Started
For those of you who are familiar with FrontPage or other Microsoft Office products, the interface is pretty familiar. However, FrontPage incorporates different views from Design to HTML to Preview. How do we navigate among the different web pages we have on our website? Learn how to get started on a brand new website or import an existing site to begin making changes with FrontPage 2003's powerful editing tools.
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Text Formatting and Editing
While we definitely will have images and perhaps even video and other multi-media, you will need to have text on your website at some point. We learn how to format, import, and change text on your web pages in this video.
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Text Formatting and Editing Part 2
You have text on your web pages. Now what? Let's spice up our text in this video with Styles, Lists, Borders and Shading, and even add comments to your fellow web editors. It's all part of the many text features available with FrontPage 2003
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Hyperlinks - Creating and Editing
We are all connected across the world wide web. In fact that's what allowed the web to be created; 'Hyperlinks'. In this video we'll look at how we can link to places within our website, link to other websites and pages around the world, send email with links, and even bookmark on a single page.
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Hyperlinks - Advanced Navigation Tools
Hyperlinks are definitely necessary to make 'surfing the web' possible. How would you like to have a row of relevant links across the top, side, or bottom of your web pages that always remains the same and links you to the important parts of your site? Link Bars with Shared Borders is the answer. We'll give you the skinny on these cool tools in this advanced look at links.
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Pictures and Graphics
Text and hyperlinks are important, but your website and web pages will be pretty boring if that's all that you have. Here we add some color, clip art, and photos to our web pages. Do you have a bunch of photos you want to share with friends, family, the world? Come learn how to create a Photo Gallery with FrontPage 2003 as well as fancy WordArt that will dazzle your site visitors.
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Forms
Anytime you go to a website and order something or request information, you typically fill out an online form that is submitted to the organizations' website. How do we build these nifty features? The good news is that you have Templates already built for common uses, a Wizard to help you with even more advanced features, and finally you have the ability to get under the hood and add/modify fields to your heart's content. Learn about these powerful forms in this video and you'll have your site gathering and distributing information with ease.
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Grid Tables
In this video we take a look at your basic Grid Tables. If you use Microsoft Word or Excel, you'll be very familiar with the grid table and how it can compartmentalize and organize data on your screen. Here we show how to use, modify, delete, and even convert your tables.
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Layout Tables
While you can see the outline of the Grid Table and use that to organize your data, how would you like to organize content on your page by using a Table? That's what Layout Tables are for and you can place any content you want in these table, format the cells to accommodate the content, and even size up content to your specifications. Layout Tables can take a cluttered web page and make it a thing of beauty.
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Frames
If you have visited many websites recently you will have noticed that some web pages seem to have "windows" of content that can change at will without affecting the rest of the webpage. Click a link and the "window" changes, yet the rest of the page remains static. That is the power of using Framed Sites. We'll show you how to create the Frame Page and then populate the frames with Content pages. This is where your web page becomes a work of art while engaging the person visiting your website. FrontPage 2003 makes it easy.
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Dynamic Elements
If you have to constantly update content on your website, it can get pretty overwhelming. How would you like to schedule content to appear on your website or a particular web page based on what time of year it is or time of day? You can do that with Dynamic elements. Want a button to change color when you hover over it or click it? You can do that with Dynamic elements. Want to track the number of visitors to your site with a hit counter? You can do that with Dynamic elements. FrontPage 2003 gives you a great selection of dynamic tools to use for your web page and they are very simple to set up.
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Video, Sound, and other Multimedia
The websites that set themselves apart from the mundane text driven pages of the past need to include multimedia. The great news is that FrontPage 2003 makes it easy to add video, music/sfx, flash animations, and more to your site. What is even better is that you can add elements that will show up on any web browser utilizing plug-in capabilities. Come see how to make your website sparkle and impress your visitors with FrontPage 2003's multimedia tools.
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Publishing and Securing your Website
You've created all these incredible web pages to build your website. Now how do you get it out on to the Internet so that everyone can enjoy the fruits of your labor? FrontPage 2003 gives you several options from FTP to Remote Web Services using FrontPage Server Extensions on your Web Server. Do you want to secure who visits your website or who can make changes? This is easily done with Permissions that can be set using the FrontPage Server Extensions.
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HTML and CSS - Advanced Formatting
Many people viewing this series on FrontPage 2003 want to know if the program supports things like Dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML editing. The answer is: Of course! From using the Split screen to view the HTML code and the design elements, to smart tags, to applying Styles to numerous pages, FrontPage 2003 has got you covered.
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