Starting With Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft FrontPage is one of most popular web page editors and also the easiest one to use if you are familiar with other Microsoft products like Word or
Publisher.
There are three main versions of FrontPage in use 2000, 2002 and the current latest version Microsoft FrontPage 2003.
In General the articles and tips are applicable to 2002 and 2003,and if there are any major differences I will try to highlight them.
Starting Tips For FrontPage
- Start using a basic HTML template as your FrontPage template.
- Don't try to use any of the more advanced features like themes until you are very happy using FrontPage.
- Don't cut and paste from Microsoft Word directly into FrontPage as it produces terrible HTML and if you need ever to edit the HTML it's very confusing. You are also likely
to finish up with a mixture of fonts on the same page.
- If you need to copy content from Word then copy it first to Notepad or any other plain text editor (not Wordpad) and then copy it from Notepad into FrontPage. You will need
to re-do formatting but the result is much better.
- Don't use any of the FrontPage features that require that you web host supports FrontPage extensions. Some FrontPage features that require FrontPage sever extensions are:
• Confirmation Field
• Discussion Form Handler
• FrontPage created server-side Image Maps
• Hit Counter
• Registration Form Handler
• Save Results Form Handler
• Scheduled Image
• Scheduled Include Page Component
• Search Form
- Support for FrontPage Server Extensions is not essential in order to host FrontPage-based Web sites. If you use a FrontPage component that requires FrontPage
Server Extension support and the host doesn't provide it the visitor will receive a 404 error.
- When you create FrontPage Web site the folder icon changes and the folder will also contain files that support FrontPage-specific functionality that allow the Web site to
be opened, copied, edited, published, and administered with FrontPage. Don't edit any of these files.
- Always create a FrontPage web site when starting a new website. Although you can edit web pages that are not part of a FrontPage web site, functions like find and replace
across multiple web pages only work if the web pages are part of the same FrontPage web site.
Starting FrontPage Tutorials and Guides:
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