Enter your title.
Enter your text and/or
Bring in text written in Microsoft Word or another program.
Click Insert, File. (Where it says Files of Type,
click All Files.) Double click the file you'd like to insert. Front
Page will convert your text to html.
You may have to adjust spacing by deleting double spaces and replacing
them with single spaces by holding the SHIFT key when you hit the ENTER key.
Format your title and text (center title, choose fonts, colors, sizes,
etc.) Font color palate is on formatting toolbar (large A with a bold
underline).
Choose a background image or color (Format, Background, click
the box next to Background Image. Click Browse). Choose the file
you wish to use as your background (usually .gif or .jpg although most
graphics files can be used as backgrounds.) [If using background images from
the web, be sure to save them in the same folder as the web pages you are
creating now.] or you can use a Theme.
To use one of Front Page's many Themes (themes include
background colors as well as font colors, custom buttons, etc.), click Format,
Theme. Scroll through the themes and choose the one you want to use. If you
don't find a theme you like, go back to step 5.
If you’d like to modify a Theme, choose the Modify
button. Look through the Themes dialog box to see the other choices
you may make to create an eye-pleasing theme.
If you choose a theme and want to undo it, click Format, Theme.
In the Themes dialog box, scroll up to (No Theme) and select
it.
Insert pictures into your web page.
Insert, Picture, From File. Then choose the picture file. or
Insert, Picture, Clipart. Then choose the clipart you'd like
to use.
Create Hyperlinks:
Type the name of your link.
Highlight it.
Click the Insert Hyperlink button or click Insert, Hyperlink.
You now have several choices:
In the blank space next to URL: type in the web site address or
name of the web page to which you want to link or
Click the first button to the right of the box to use your web browser
to select a web page or file or
Click the next button to make a hyperlink to a file (a web page that
you've already created) on your computer or
Click the third button to make a hyperlink that sends email or
Click on the last button to create a page and link to the new page
To create a Link to another part of a web page that you have created
(a bookmark):
Decide to where you would like to link.
Highlight the first word of that section.
Click Insert, Bookmark.
Give the bookmark a name or accept the suggested name. Click OK.
Type the name of your link.
Highlight it.
Click the Insert Hyperlink button or click Insert, Hyperlink.
From the drop down menu next to the word Bookmark, select the
appropriate bookmark and click OK.
Create a Table:
Click Table, Insert Table.
Specify the number of rows and columns (these can always be changed).
Specify the style if you wish. Then you can choose the Format button
to format Font, Paragraph, Border, Numbering and Position (or these
properties can be modified at a later time by selecting the table and
choosing table properties).
Enter your information – text and pictures can be used in a table (use
the TAB key to get around your table).
To change font colors, highlight the text or cells and go to Format,
Font and choose your color.
Any other adjustments to your table should be done using the Table
menu items. (The table (or a part of the table) needs to be selected in
order to use these menu items.)
Create Bullets:
Click Format, Bullets and Numbering
Use pictures from current theme or
Specify image and Browse to choose your image file. Be careful, because
most custom images will be very large as bullets and will need to be
modified with an image editor.
Add a Timestamp:
Click Insert, Date and Time.
Choose the Display and Date and Time Formats.
Click OK.
You can write: This page was last updated on … before the timestamp (on
your web page) if you wish.
To create a moving Marquee (usually at the top) on your page:
Choose Insert, Component, Marquee
Type your text.
Make various choices in dialog box – don’t for get the style
and then format buttons for further choices.
You’ll need to go to Preview to see the Marquee in action.
To wrap text around a picture (or pictures):
Put the picture wherever you like and then select it.
Choose Format, Position
Then choose Wrapping Style: Left (or right), Positioning Style:
none.
