Front Page Express
Tutorial

by Jenny Kiaschko

Overview

This tutorial is an overview of FrontPage Express. FrontPage Express is a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Editor.  This purpose of this tutorial is to help you learn how to use FrontPage Express and be able to create a website.  FrontPage Express is a simpler version of FrontPage.  Once you have mastered FrontPage Express, it would be very easy to upgrade to FrontPage to allow for more details to your web page.

FrontPage Express is very similar to Word97.
 
 

Toolbar

(Your tool bar may be arranged different or have some components missing. You can fix this by choosing View from the menu bar and selecting all toolbars.)
 
 

Text

Entering text into a webpage is much like entering text into a word processor. Simply type the text you want to appear and then use the following steps to spice it up.

Layout
The text on your webpage doesn't have to all be in paragraph blocks. You do something:

• Line Break
  When you press ENTER at the end of a line of text, the cursor drops down two lines and starts a new paragraph. The only way to get text directly underneath the first line of text is to finish filling up the line and letting word-wrap do the rest (much like this paragraph). But sometimes you want to go to the very next line after only a few words. An example of this is a centered heading:

  Jenny Kiaschko Ed Psy 490NET

  This is called a Line Break. To create a line break, simply hold down the SHIFT key and press ENTER. In FrontPage Express, Line Breaks are denoted by a .

  Alignment
  You can align text and pictures to the right, center, or left of your webpage. To do this, highlight the text or picture you want to move and click on either the right, center, or left buttons on the toolbar. If you haven't started typing the text, just click on either the right, center, or left buttons and the cursor will move to that part of the page. (labeled above in purple)

  Indents
  You can indent blocks as text as well. To indent some text, click the Increase Indent Icon on the toolbar. To out-dent or unindent some text, click the Decrease Indent Icon on the toolbar. When you indent or out-dent a block of text, the entire paragraph that the text is in is indented or out-dented. So be careful when using indent and out-dent, especially inside of lists. (labeled above in maroon and grey)

  Lists
  You can also make lists. Lists are indented and denoted and are especially good for outlines. Here is an example of the two major kinds of lists, the Numbered List and the Bulleted List:

  Numbered List	Bulleted List
  Apples Oranges Kiwi Tomatoes	Dogs Cats elephants Sheep

  To make a list, select either the Numbered List or Bulleted List Icon from the toolbar. Type the text of the first list item. When you hit ENTER, the cursor drops down to the next line (not a new paragraph) and another number or bullet appears for the next list item. To end the list, press ENTER after you've typed the last list item. Then, deselect the selected List Icon. The cursor will then drop down to a new paragraph and will be out-dented to the indent before the list was started. (labeled above in teel and aqua)

  In the case of outlines, you may want to nest lists, or have a list inside of another list. It would look something like this

   

  Math Department   Calculus   Jenny Kiaschko Nancy Pence Algebra   Matt Reed Joby Crum Geometry   Robin Ehrhart Jenny Kiaschko Erin Scheffler Science Department and so...

  build a nested list, start by creating the top most list, or parent. (In the case above, you'd make a Numbered List and type in the first item.) Then to make a sub-list of that item, do the following:

  1. Press ENTER after typing in the list item of the parent list.
  2. Click the Increase Indent Icon.
  3. Select the either the Numbered List or Bulleted List Icon from the toolbar. (In the case above, you'd select Numbered List.)
  4. Type in the first item of the nested list.

  To end a sub-list and return to its parent list (In the example above, end the list containing Mike Loosbrock and Matt Christians and get back to list containing Work Study, Part-Time Employees, and Staff), do the following:

1. Press ENTER after typing in the last item of the sub-list.
2. Either press BACKSPACE twice, or click the Decrease Indent Icon twice.

Attributes
FrontPage Express allows you to make all the same attribute changes you can make in Word97. The first step in changing text attributes is to highlight the text you want to modify with the mouse. You can then make the following changes:

• Font Type
• 
  Font type is the font family of text, such as Comic Sans, Times New Roman, and Courier New. To change the font type, select the font you want from theFont Type List Box on the toolbar. (Try not to use a lot of non-standard fonts because if the font is not loaded on the computer where your page is being viewed, the font will appear as the browser default.) (labeled above in lime green)

• Font Style
• 
  The style of the text can either be bold, italics, or underline. To change the font style, select one or more of the Style Icons on the toolbar. (labeled above inpurple)

• Font Color
• 
  The color of the text can also be changed. To change the font color, select the Text Color Icon on the toolbar. The Color Dialog Box appears. Choose the color you want and click Presto...we mean...OK. (labeled abovein orange)

• Font Size
• 
  You can change the font size by clicking the either the Increase TextSize or Decrease Text Size Icon from the toolbar. (labeled above in blue and brown)

Images

You can insert images (*.gif, *.jpg, *.bmp) into your webpage. Keep in mind that you need to keep your images realitively small in size, otherwise, your pages will take a long time to download.

To insert an image, put your cursor where you want to place the image and then:

1. Select the Insert Image icon from the toolbar. (labeled above in fushia)
2. The Image Dialog Box appears. Click the Browse Button.
3. Find and select the image you wish to insert and click OK.

The image should appear on the webpage. After you have placed the image on the webpage, you can change the attributes of the image by right clicking on the image and choosing Image Properties.

The Image Properties Dialog Box appears. Choose the Appearance Tab.
 
 

Alignment
The Alignment property allows you to set how the image is aligned vertically in respect to the line of text it is embedded in. For example: (labeled above in red)

Bottom Align	Middle Align	Top Align
bottomalign	middlealign	topalign

You can also align the image horizontally:

Left Align

Here is an example of an image that is left aligned. The text wraps around the image, which is align to the left.

Right Align

Here is an example of an image that is right aligned. The text wraps around the image, which is align to the right.

Links

Links create a connection between more than one of your pages. Links also can connect your page to other pages across the World Wide Web.

To link to a webpage other than your own, determine where you want to link to (For example, you might want the viewer to click on the words "CNN News" and have them sent to http://www.cnn.com). To do this, first highlight the text, picture, or both, that you want to be linked (in this case, we would highlight the words "CNN News"). Next click the Create or Edit Hyperlink Icon on the toolbar. (labeled above in green)

The Create Hyperlink Dialog Box should appear, as below. Choose the World Wide Web tab. Then make sure theHyperlink Type List Box is set to "http:" on the Hyperlink Type List Box. Lastly, on the line titled URLtype the address of the webpage. In this case we would type out http://www.cnn.com. Click the OKand you have just created a link that should look and work something like this link: CNN News.

To link your own pages together, you first need to determine how the pages are to be connected. For example, you may want the viewer to click on the word "Hobbies", and have it go to a separate page of yours. To do this, follow the same directions as above: highlight the text and click the Create or Edit Hyperlink Iconon the toolbar (labeled above in green).

The Create Hyperlink Dialog Box should appear, as below. Choose the World Wide Web tab. Next, select "(other)" for theHyperlink Type:. On the URLline type the name of your other page. In this case we would type "hobbies.htm". Once that is done you can click the OKand you will have created a link to another one of your pages.

Special Features

The one line text box allows you to add a box for interactive typing, such as the one below.
 

The scrolling text box allows you to add a scrolling text box for more information than a one line text box can handle.  This is a good way to ask for a great amount of information while using minimal space.
 
 

The check box allows you to add a box to gather information in a yes/no format.
 
Please Vote for One Person

The radio button box gives you the same capabilities as the check box only in a radio button form.
 
Please Vote for One Teacher

The drop down menu box allows you to give a list of choices in a compressed amount of space.
 

The push button box allows you to add a button for different tasks: submit or reset.
 

The tools listed above are extremely useful because it allows you to add higher level features to your webpage without haing to know any type of coding.