Basic Front Page Directions

You have to use a computer that has Microsoft FrontPage loaded on it to work on your webpages. See Terry if you need to buy another license.

Get on the internet and click on your website.

Look in the top left hand corner and find the word "File".

Click the word "File"

Click "Edit with Microsoft FrontPage"

Now there will be something that pops up.

Where it says "User name:" type in.....TechCoordinator (exactly like this)

In the next row where it says "Password:"....type in your school password that Terry gave you. You cannot make up your own password or change it.

Then click the word "OK"

Your FrontPage will come up.

To insert background color:

Go up to "Format" at the top bar.

Then find the word "Background"

There will be another pop up that says Page Properties in the blue part.

Look down to where it says "Colors"

Choose your color and click "ok"

Go to the word "File" in the upper left hand corner.

Click "Save As"

Leave the File name: index (DO NOT change this word!!!!!!!! Very Very important)

Then click the word "Save" in the word lower right hand corner.

Now you can type just like you type any document.

When you type whatever you want, be sure to save it.

Click "Save As"

Leave the File name: index (DO NOT change this word!!!!!!!! Very Very important)

Then click the word "Save" in the word lower right hand corner.

To open a new page:

Go back to the top right and find the word "File" again.

Now find the word "New" and move to the right where it says "Page or Web"

Click that.

When you do that, there will be a pop up to the right side of the page.

Find where it says "Blank Page" and click that. It will automatically create a new , blank, white page for you. It will say new_page_1.htm

(to the left of it, it will say index.html*) That is your first page.

You can insert a background color to this page.

Now save it, but you have to do another step......

Go to the word "File" in the upper left hand corner.

Click "Save As"

This time where it says "File name:" it will say new_page_1

You can change this to anything you want it to say. If you want this page to be your faculty page, type in Faculty.

Also look just above that where it says "Page title:"

It will say "New Page 1"

Change the title.... by clicking that button and change it to Faculty. If you don't , people on the web will see New Page 1.

ON ALL OF THE OTHER NEW PAGES YOU CREATE, CHANGE THE "FILE NAME" AND THE "PAGE TITLE"....BUT REMEMBER DO NOT CHANGE THE VERY FIRST PAGE THAT SAYS INDEX

To create a hyperlink from one page to the next:

Type the word "home" for example.

Now highlight that word and now go up to the word "Insert" at the top.

Let that drop down and find the word "Hyperlink"

Click it.

A pop up will appear again.

You will then click the word index.html and click the work "OK"

This makes your second page you created go back to your first page that is named index (which is the first page people see when they open up your website)

If you want this page to hyperlink to your Class Schedule page for example, you will insert a hyperlink and click it to say class schedule. (We will practice this. It is hard to explain.) This is how to get to the next page, but you have to create the next page first.

You can hyperlink any pages from the Dallas Co Webpage to your pages. I will show you how.

How to format a Theme instead of a Background:

Go up to "Format"

Instead of clicking the word "Background", choose the word "Theme"

Pick your choice. You can use this for all of your pages. Personally, I do not use these because I have each page a different color. A Theme will make every page the same color and format.

Insert scroll bar and hit counter:

Go up to "Insert" then click "Web Component"

Choose "Marquee" to make a sentence scroll back and forth.

Where it says "text" Type in the sentence you want to say and click ok. You can also change the speed of the marquee, the font, the color, etc.

You can also click 'Insert" then click "Web Component"

Choose the word "Hit Counter" and choose which you like. Then you can tell how many hits your website gets. You can reset it when you need to or want to.

Basically everything you do on the site is just like typing in Microsoft Word. You can insert charts, word art, insert pictures.

To insert a picture:

Go to "Insert"

If your picture is on disk, you will click "from file" and click floppy

If you want to choose a picture from the internet, you will choose "clipart" and you can choose a clipart you have on your computer or a picture online.