Lesson 1: Creating a Site

Using FrontPage's wizards, it's a snap to set up the basic pages for a site.

Using Wizards and Themes

If you're starting from scratch, select File/New/Web to get going. This calls up a window full of icons for you to choose from, some representing wizards and some templates. Click on one of the wizards and you'll be asked several questions about what kind of site you want. You can specify the pages to include what type of content you want on each page, what standard elements should go on every page, and what kind of stylistic theme they should all have.

Themes are bundled collections of graphics and colors included with FrontPage. There are 60 of them, ranging from corporate to quirky.

Apply a theme to existing pages by choosing Format/Theme while you have a page open. You'll get a window that lets you select the theme, then choose to put it on all your pages or only the one selected. You can also choose to make the colors more vivid or insert a background image.

Setting Up Style Sheets

If you're setting up a new site, you'll want to create a style sheet, so you don't have to make the same formatting choices for each page. While in Page View, select New/Page. In the window that opens, select the Style Sheets tab. Preview the various style sheets and select the one you want and save it.

To link pages to the style sheet, move to the Folder View and highlight all the pages that will work with the style sheet. Select Format/Style Sheet, then click Add to select your style sheet.

Edit the formatting choices on your style sheet by opening the sheet and choosing Format/Style. Select an element to change from the list on the left side, then click Modify. Do this for all the elements you want to edit. When you're done, click OK.

Checking Links and Spelling

If you don't find all the mistakes on your site, your readers will. To verify all the links, click the Reports icon in the Views table (on the left side of the screen). In the window that appears, click what pages should be checked and press Start.

If FrontPage finds broken links, fixing them is easy. Right click on a broken link to edit it. You can change each occurrence of a broken link at one time.

To check the spelling on your site, make sure you're in any view other than the Page view and click the Spelling button on the toolbar. Choose to check either the whole site or certain pages. When the checking is done, you can fix mistakes on the spot by double-clicking on them, or mark them to be done later by clicking the Add Task button.

• Lesson 1: Creating a Site
• Lesson 2: Working with Frames
• Lesson 3: Altering Images
• Lesson 4: Adding DHTML and Other Media
• Lesson 5: Managing a Site
• Lesson 6: Other Timesavers and New Features
• Introduction To Tutorial