Writing 316 - E
Prof. Cora Agatucci

Advanced Prose Writing for the World Wide Web

Lesson #2 FrontPage 2000 - ENG 339-E, Spring 2003
URL of this webpage: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/Frontpage/lesson2.htm
Short Cuts:  Create New Page (1) | Create New Page (2)| Copy & Paste E-Paper from Disk to Web |
Edit Text | Work with Cora's Templates | Help

Create
New
Page (1)

 
Method #1: Create New Page & Enter Text (e.g. Your E-Papers) into Your Web

Step 1.  Create a New Page - four ways:
--
Review from < Lesson #1: Views: Main Frame:  
When you first open your web, the main frame of your screen will display a default new page (in glaring blank white).
or 

--Control + N
or
--
Click New Page icon at the top of your screen
or 
--
Select New Page from File menu at the top of your screen

A New Page will appear in your Main Frame, identified by a working partial URL at the top of the Main Frame (e.g. it will look something like this: new_page_2.htm)
--Position your cursor in the New Page and you are ready to enter text (i.e. your E-Papers).
--Type something into the New Page.

Step 2.  Save and Name a New Page
a. 
Select Save from File menu or click Save icon at the top of your screen or Control + S
b.  Save As
Dialog box will appear and you need to do two things:
--Page title:  click Change button.  Set Page Title dialog box will appear.  Type in your new page title (e.g. draft) and click OK.
--
*File Name:  back in the Save As dialog box, *type in a file name and click OK.
*Web page file name will part of the URL for this webpage, so do NOT use any spaces[See Cora for more guidelines.]
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Create
New
Page (2)
 Method #2:  Copy an existing page (e.g. index or a template web page) in your web and Rename it.

1.  In the Folder List view of your open web, position cursor arrow on the web page to be copied, and on your mouse Right press and Hold that web page, then Drag up to your root URL [marked] at the top of Folder List.

2. Release your hold and a short cut dialog box will appear:  Right click "Copy here."  Then wait while the copied web page is created.  When FrontPage has completed the operation, the new copied web page will appear in your Folder List, looking something like this:  template2_copy(1).htm

3.  Right click on the copied webpage and select Rename from the short cut menu.  The copied page will now appear in a marked box:  Hit Backspace key to erase the old name and then type in the new name of this webpage--and don't forget the file extension ( .htm )
Left click
cursor arrow and wait.  While FrontPage completes the operation, the renamed webpage will reappear in your Folder List.  

4. Open (i.e. double click on) the renamed webpage, and it will be loaded into your Main Frame for editing.  

5.  Change Page Title and Copy URL into your Footer
--
From the FrontPage File menu, select "Properties..." and 
"Page Properties" dialog box
will appear.  "General" tab should be displayed (if not, click "General" tab).
--In Title field, type in your new page title.
--Location field displays the current URL of this web page.  Mark and Copy the URL.  Then click OK.
--Position your cursor in your web page and paste the copied URL.  Footer information about your webpage--e.g. "URL of this webpage: . . . ")--is needed to identify your webpage for your web users, as well as to help you keep track!

6.  SAVE your edited web page!!  And SAVE often!!
Three ways to Save:
--Control + S
or
--select Save from File menu at the top of your FrontPage screen
or
--click Save icon at the top of your FrontPage screen

NOTE WELL: Whenever you move, copy, rename, etc., an existing file or folder in your web, you are also changing the URL of that file or folder as well. So follow up editing may be needed.  For example:
--You may need to revise Footer info copied in renamed webpage  (e.g. "URL of this webpage: . . . ").

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Copy and
Paste
E-Paper
from Disk
to Web

Step 3.  Copy-and-Paste Your E-Papers from Disk to Web
[Now we're going to MULTI-TASK:  I'm assuming that your web, and the new "draft" web page you've just created, are open.]

a.  Insert your floppy disk into your computer.

b.  Open Word [word processing software program]
--
Click Start in the lower left corner of your screen.
--Choose
Programs + Microsoft Word 
--
From the Microsoft Word File menu, select Open.  The Open dialog box and the Look In field will appear.
--Click the Look In menu, and under Desktop select the "3 1/2 Floppy" to access your disk (or click the up-arrow icon until you get to the same place).
--If all goes well, your floppy disk will be opened and your disk contents will appear.  
--Open your e-paper document.
NOTE:  If Microsoft Word will not open your file because you created your document in another wordprocessing software program that Word cannot translate, then see Cora!!  
--Copy the contents of your document -  two ways:
.....Control + A and then Control + C (to copy your entire word document); or
.....Mark text in your document to be copied, click the Edit pull-down menu, and select Copy.

c.  Click on the open Microsoft FrontPage button at the bottom of your computer screen, position your cursor at the place in your web page where you want to paste your copied document, and then - two ways:
--hit Control + V
--or
from the FrontPage Edit menu, select Paste.
NOTE:  FrontPage will "translate" your original wordprocessed document as best it can, but the formatting will not translate perfectly!  You can edit later!!  The main thing is that your text is successfully pasted into your FrontPage web file.

d. Save the pasted text in your open FrontPage web page (you can edit later!!): Three ways to Save:
--Control + S
or
--select Save from File menu at the top of your FrontPage screen
or
--click Save icon at the top of your FrontPage screen

NOTE:  If your wordprocessing document contains images, see Cora!!
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Edit Text

Edit Text with FrontPage 2000
FrontPage 2000 works a lot like any other common word processing software.  For example, you can mark text in a web page and then use the tool bar at the top of your FrontPage screen to set the font, point size, alignment [left, center, right], style [bold, italics, underline], and color of text.
But there are some differences and restrictions to note:

1.  WWW communication conventions understand underlined text to mean a hyperlink.  So to avoid confusion in your web documents, indicate a title or  emphasis with the "I" / italicize or B / Bold function. 

2.  New paragraphs:  Indicate a new paragraph with double spacing by hitting the Enter key.

3.  Line Breaks without double spacing:  If you want to start some text on a new line, but don't want to create a double space, then you need to use a "soft carriage return": that is, hold down the Shift key and press the Enter key. [Shift + Enter]

4.  Spellcheck:  There are several ways to check spelling in your webpage documents, and FrontPage 2000 spellcheck works a lot like it does on Microsoft Word.  See Tools drop-down menu above.
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Work with Cora's
Templates

Work with Cora's Web Templates
Cora has copied 6 templates using Tables & Themes into your new web, filed in "templates" folder, which you should see in your "Folder List."  

Step 1:  Review each of these Templates
--Single click
the boxed + icon next to "templates" folder, and a list of pages nested in the "templates" folder will become visible.
--Double click
each of the listed web files in your "templates" folder, and review them as possible templates to use in creating your Electronic Paper web assignment for WR 316.
--To see how each of these templates will look on the WWW:   At the bottom of the main frame screen, note that "Normal" is selected.  Click "Preview" tab to see how the current webpage template will look on the WWW.  Click "Normal" to go back to editing mode. 

To view the Templates on Cora's web via your internet browser:
Template 1: [Frontpage 2000 Theme: Tabs and Folders ]
Template 2: [Frontpage 2000 Theme: Radius ]
Template 3: [Frontpage 2000 Theme: Canvas ]
Template 4: [Frontpage 2000 Theme: Corporate ]
Template 5: [Frontpage 2000 Theme: Leaves ]
Template 6: [Frontpage 2000 Theme: Willow]

Step 2:  Choose one of these templates for presenting (one of) your E-Papers.  [NOTE:  This is web practice in learning FrontPage 2000 basic operations. Even if you hate all of Cora's templates, follow the steps below.  Then later Cora will help you develop a different one.]

Step 3:  Copy selected template as a (new) page in your web:
(select-drag-copy operation)
In the "Folder List" frame:
--Point cursor arrow on web icon of selected template web file; then
on your mouse, press and hold Right button to mark the the selected template web file;
--Drag
it up to your root URL (given at the top of the "Folder List" frame);
--Release your hold on the right mouse button; then select "Copy Here" from the short cut menu
-- "Confirm Copy" dialog box will appear and  wait until it finishes. When the FrontPage operation is completed, you should see a new webfile appear in your "Folder List" frame, which will look something like this: template1_copy(1).htm

Step 4:  Rename (the copied template) web file 
In the "Folder List" frame:
--Right click the file and select "Rename" -
this will mark and box the web filename.
--Type in a new web file name and the file extension 
(e.g. " .htm ")
in the box.  
NOTE WELL:
When you rename a file or folder in a web using this procedure, Microsoft FrontPage automatically repairs any hyperlinks to or from the renamed file (or files in the renamed folder).  If you do not use this method, you may have to redo any hyperlinks in the copied-and-renamed webpage!!
FOLLOW-UP WEB EDITING may be needed:
--
Whenever you rename a file or folder in your web, you are also changing the URL of that file or folder

--Renaming a web filename does not automatically rename the Page Title, so you will need to do the following: 
(a) Open the renamed web page; 
(b) Select Properties from the File menu; 
(c) Title field is usually marked by default, so hit Enter key (to erase the existing Page Title) and type in the new Page Title that you want to appear in WWW references. Then click OK.

Step 5:  Now you are ready to copy text from your "Draft" web-file into, and edit the Renamed web template . . . .
[if we get this far on Tues., Cora will give more instructions in class.]
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Help

Use Microsoft FrontPage Help:
--Click the Help button at the top of your screen, and select Microsoft FrontPage Help from the Help menu, or press F1 on your keyboard.
--Click on a tab to select one of these help options:

bullet Content: Display the Help table of contents. Click on a topic to display help for that topic.
bullet Answer Wizard: Perform a natural language query.
bullet Index: Find information by keyword.

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Create New Page (1) | Create New Page (2)| Copy & Paste E-Paper from Disk to Web |
Edit Text | Work with Cora's Templates | Help

URL of this webpage: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/Frontpage/lesson2.htm
Last Updated: 19 June 2003

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