Creating Web Pages with Microsoft Front Page

Introduction

This semester, you will be asked to insert hyperlinks into written materials and place them on the Web. You will also work with other students on a group project that will be presented to your classmates as a website. The software that you are most likely to work with is FRONTPAGE. This software is on the computers in the lab where our classes will meet and it is on most campus computers. To ensure that everyone is familiar with the basics of creating a web page using FRONTPAGE, your first assignment is to follow the directions in the following tutorial and create a web page ABOUT yourself.

Your page should include the following:

A PHOTO

Please note: you can scan one in Instructional Tech Services, (1^st floor Forcina Hall); you can use a digital camera in ITS and upload the file to your TCNJ account; you can insert a link to a photo that you already have on the Web and use it.  The staff in ITS can show you how to access your TCNJ web space (http://www.tcnj.edu/~your tcnj e-mail name)

For all of the following, you may use text and/or images (e.g. a family photo or a statement about your family).

YOUR NAME

YOUR HOME TOWN ( link to website for your home town)

FAMILY (text and/or photo and or link to website if appropriate)

MAJOR AT TCNJ (link to the TCNJ website for your major)

(text; images; audio; video and/or hyperlinks to websites would be appropriat for all of the following)

CAREER GOALS (talk about your goals. Use text and/or images and/or hyperlinks)

HOBBIES 

EMPLOYMENT (if appropriate)

FAVORITE SUBJECT

FAVORITE BOOK

FAVORITE MOVIE

FAVORITE ENTERTAINER

Design

Color can ruin some web sites. You want to be sure to use color but don't over do it. Background images are nice but often make the text hard to read. Be sure that any background image compliments your text and graphics.

Be sure to regularly check your page in the Internet browser that you will be using.
To do this click on the display in browser button.

This will launch the browser and show your page in the browser on your computer.

Microsoft FrontPage does a great job creating web pages but it isn't exactly WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get).

Getting Started

1. Create a folder on your desktop It can later be moved to the appropriate place on your server with help from your web master.

Create folders within the folders based on your menu items. Example:  Family, Home town, hobbies, etc.

Opening FrontPage

1.  Open the application FrontPage
2.  If you don’t have a Front Page icon on your desktop, go to Start in the lower left hand corner. Then go to programs and then to FrontPage and click on FrontPage for it to open

3.      From the file menu choose 'New,' and select 'Normal Page.'

4. You will use the following three things to create your page, the Menu Bar, the Tool Bar and the Text Editors

Ready to Begin?????

Click on one of the areas to find out how to create/use the item.

• Text
• Tables
• Images
• Linking
• Color
• HTML Help and graphic sources
• More Graphic Sources

Save your finished web page to disc and bring to the second class meeting. If your file is too large to save on a zip disc call the HELP DESK (x 2660) to find out how to save it to the network.