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To create your home page, open Microsoft FrontPage.. The screen shown in Figure 17-23 appears, displaying code to create a blank web page.. Explore FrontPage’s Text-Editing Capabilities

To create your home page, open Microsoft FrontPage The screen shown in Figure 17-23 appears, displaying code to create a blank web page

FIGURE 17-23 The Microsoft FrontPage toolbar command buttons look like the

familiar Microsoft Word interface

Normal tab

Add files

to this menu.

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Before you begin typing any text onto this blank page, which will become your home page, you need to give it a title and save it so it has a filename To give your home page a proper title and save it to a file, follow these steps:

1. From the menu bar, choose File, then Save The Save As dialog box appears,

as shown in Figure 17-24

FIGURE 17-24 Enter a filename with the html extension

2. Under File Name, enter index.html FrontPage allows you to name your home

page anything your want, but many ISPs and WPPs require that you use the name and extension “index.html.”

3. Click Save

Now that you’ve created and saved a home page, you’re officially up and running You can proceed to add text, images, and increasingly sophisticated features as you master this program

Explore FrontPage’s Text-Editing Capabilities

When you create a Web Page using Microsoft FrontPage, the program is actually creating a hypertext markup language (HTML) document behind the scenes HTML is a special language that defines text formatting for all documents that appear on the Web

Enter HTML filename.

Perhaps the most attractive feature of Microsoft FrontPage is that it allows you to add and edit text using an interface similar to Microsoft Word If you’re familiar with Microsoft Word, editing with FrontPage is easy and intuitive You can type, select, move, copy, and delete text in FrontPage exactly as you do in Word

Formatting text is a little bit different You can resize text, make it bold, underline

it, align and center it, change the color, and apply a heading style using the dialog box shown in Figure 17-25

FIGURE 17-25 The FrontPage Font dialog box

Adding Scanned Photos Using FrontPage

What can be duller than a web page that contains only text? Your scanned photos can make it a site worth visiting

To add scanned photos to a web page you’ve created with FrontPage, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the Start menu on your Windows desktop to access the Explore window, then select the file containing the scanned photo your want to import 17

2. Right-click the file you want to import, then click Copy on the pop-up menu that appears

3. Open Microsoft FrontPage

4. Click the Normal tab and the folder on the left side of the screen where you want to import the scanned image (see Figure 17-23)

5. Right-click in the pane containing the file list and select Paste from the pop-up menu The image appears on the web page

When you import an image onto a web page using the above steps, it usually isn’t sized or positioned exactly the way you want it You can resize the photo by following these steps:

1. Right-click the scanned photo, then click Picture Properties on the pop-up menu that appears The dialog box shown in Figure 17-26 appears

2. Select the Specify Size check box

3. To maintain the height-to-width proportions, select the Keep Aspect Ratio check box

4. Specify whether you want to change the size in pixels or percentage, then enter values in the Width and Height boxes

5. Save the changes you’ve made to the web page

Obviously, this chapter tells you only a fraction of what you probably want to know if you decide to create your own web page using Microsoft FrontPage It’s intended only to give you a feel for the familiar Windows-like interface, and to demonstrate how intuitive this program can be If you think you’d like to use

FrontPage to create a web page using your scanned photos, you’ll find How to Do

Everything with FrontPage 2000 (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001) to be an excellent

resource

Sending Large Image Files Using a File Transfer Protocol

It’s often inconvenient to send large or multiple image files over the Web That’s why many ISP and WPP sites allow you to send files using a file transfer protocol (FTP)

FIGURE 17-26 Reposition and resize photos uploaded with FrontPage

program In fact, you should inquire whether your service provider allows you to use FTP to transfer files, and what programs are available for you to use for this purpose

FTP programs are designed to facilitate and expedite the transfer of large files over the Web Perhaps the most popular file transfer program is WS_FTP You can download a free 30-day trial version for this program from www.ipswitch.com/

Products/WS_FTP, shown in Figure 17-27

Adjust picture size.

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