Target audience

Participants should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC) and have experience using Word and a Web browser. No prior knowledge of FrontPage is assumed.

At course completion

After completing this course, participants will be able to:
~ Create a shared border, a page banner and a navigation bar
~ Manage a website o Work with frames
~ Create user input forms o Incorporate database results on a web page
~ Apply a variety of styles and themes to web pages
~ Add a search form
~ Customise web pages

Prerequisites

The delegate should have completed the FrontPage XP Introductory course, or gained similar knowledge in the workplace

Related courses

~ Windows 2000, 2002
~ Advanced FrontPage 2002

Tailored training is available

Topics

~ Designing a website - planning and designing a website; use navigation view; add and delete pages in navigation view; rename a page; add and move existing pages; import source files; ensure browser compatibility; control page download times; use reveal tags; modify HTML formatting

~ Shared borders and link bars - create a shared border; modify a shared border; change the shared borders for selected pages; create a page banner; create a link bar; create a custom link bar

~ Managing a web - work with pages in folders view; proof text across a web; use navigation view; re-organise pages in navigation view; verify hyperlinks; view web reports; view and add web tasks; publish a web

~ Working with frames - create a frameset; add and edit content within a frame; add hyperlinks between static and dynamic frames; change the layout of a frameset; change frame properties

~ Creating User input forms - create a form; add a text box; change form control properties; add a check box; add an option group; add a drop-down box; add a push button; validate user input; save form results to email; save form results to a file

~ Working with databases
Setup a data source; save form results to an access database; use the database results wizard; create a database query in the database results wizard; use a data access page in a website

~ Themes and styles - what is a cascading style sheet?; what is a theme?; apply a theme; customise a theme; apply a different theme to a Ppage; create and link a style sheet; modify HTML tag styles; create a class style; apply a style

~ Active elements and special formatting - add a FrontPage component; create a hover button; add a search form; insert an office web component

~ Customising web pages -
position graphics and text on a page; use a position box to group elements; change the Z-Order of elements; add a background image; use HTML and CSS character formatting effects; apply CSS paragraph formats; apply custom Hyperlink formatting.