|
|
How to check for broken hyperlinks
This report allows you to find pages that contain broken hyperlinks to
either internal Web site pages or links to other Web sites.
- From the Site Summary display you can click the Hyperlinks link or
from the top menu select View >> Reports >> Problems >> Hyperlinks.
- Then click the check hyperlinks icon.
- From the Verify Hyperlinks dialog box, select either Verify only
unknown hyperlinks or Verify all hyperlinks, and then click the Start
button.
- Once the hyperlinks are verified, you can right-click any broken link
to either edit the hyperlink or edit the page.
|
How to check for
accessibility problems
- On the Tools menu, click Accessibility.
- From the Accessibility dialog box, specify the pages you want to check
for accessibility issues.
- Specify the accessibility guidelines you want to check for conflicts.
- Specify the types of items you want to include in the accessibility
report.
- Click the Check button.
- Once all of the selected pages have been checked, those pages with
accessibility issues will be displayed.
- To move up or down in the list of issues and view the associated html
code, click Previous or Next.
- Pages with issues, the type of issue, and a problem summary will be
displayed. Problem details and suggested corrections also will be
displayed for each issue.
|
How to make title
attributes (called Screen Tips in FrontPage)
- In Design view, select the hyperlinked text, and then click the
Hyperlink icon on the Toolbar.
- Click the ScreenTip button.
- Type the text you want to use as a title attribute, and click OK.
|
How to remove html
formatting
- In Design view, select the content that you want to remove formatting
from.
- On the Format menu, click Remove Formatting.
|
How to make a simple jump menu by creating a form
Open your page in HTML view and select within the <body> section of the code the part of the page where you want your menu to appear using the following code:
<form>
<select onChange="if(options[selectedIndex].value)
window.location.href=(options[selectedIndex].value)">
<option>Select one...
<option value="http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/">Dr. Alice Christie's Home Page
<option value="http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml">U.S. Department of Education
<option value="http://www.ade.state.az.us/">AZ Department of Education
<option value="http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html">Education Week
</select>
</form>
Change the code to link to your web pages. You also can change the "Select one..." display in the form to whatever instructions you prefer.
Automatic jump menu sample:
|
Using FrontPage without the FrontPage server extensions
Many of FrontPage's features will function without the server extensions being available,
but the following features require that the server extensions are installed:
- Forms processing (but you can use FrontPage to design forms, and a CGI script to process the form)
- Themes
- Search form
- Bulletin board
- Security
- The hit counter
- SubWebs
- Database features
|
Creating hover buttons
- Place the
cursor on the page where you want the button.
- From the top
menu, select Insert > Interactive Button.
- From the
Interactive Button window, select the button style you want from the
Buttons menu list.
- Type in the
Text box, the text you want to appear on the button and type the link
for the button in the Link box.
- You can see how
the button will look in the Preview window.
- By selecting
the Font and Images tabs, you can change the settings for the text font
and image attributes.
- Click OK to
insert the button.
- Save the Web
page. When the Save Embedded Files window appears, click OK to include
the button images in the folder with the Web page.
|
Inserting meta tags
Insert meta tags: Open the htm page.
Right-click on the page. Select Page Properties… In the Page description
box, Type in a meaningful description of the web page. In the Keywords box,
type in keywords (separated by commas) that are descriptive of the web page. |
Inserting page titles
Right-click on the page. Select Page
Properties… Type in the Title of the web page in the Title text box. |
Creating a school home page that includes a banner, a gif title, a simple navigation bar, a table
containing school information, a nested table, and a footer for copyright
notice
-
Open a new page
-
Press Enter to set a carriage return. Place the cursor at the top of the
page and using the Table Icon in the top tool bar, select a table with 1 row
and 1 column.
-
Right-click within the table and select Table Properties. Specify a width
of 755 pixels, 0 cell padding, 0 cell spacing, and a border size of 0.
-
Place the cursor in the table and using the Image Icon, browse to the
Images folder containing the banner.jpg file and insert the image.
-
Place the cursor below the table and create another table with 3 rows, 1
column, and a width of 755 pixels, 0 cell padding, 0 cell spacing, and a
border size of 0.
-
Place the cursor in the top row; from the text tool bar specify Verdana,
10 pt. and type in the pre-defined menu bar.
-
Insert the pre-defined text in the second row. Specify body text to be
Verdana, 10 pt.
-
Highlight “Welcome to Our Web Site!” and specify Heading 2, Verdana.
-
Highlight “Our mission” and specify Heading 3, Verdana.
-
Highlight “Contact us” and specify Heading 3, Verdana.
-
Put the cursor in the bottom row and type in: “2005 Verde Canyon
Elementary School District. All rights reserved.” Then place the cursor in
front of 2005, and from the top menu, select Insert – Symbol. Scroll until
you see the copyright sign and double click it to insert it before the text.
-
Highlight all of the copyright text and specify Arial, 10 pt.
-
Insert nested table with non discrimination text.
|
Link to an external cascading
style sheet using FrontPage:
-
While in Design view, from the top menus,
click Format > Style Sheet Links > Add.
-
Locate and click the .css file for the
external style sheet.
-
To link the external CSS to only the
current page, click Selected page(s).
-
To link the external CSS to all pages in
the current Web site, click All Pages.
Note:
Turn support for cascading style sheets on or off: On the Tools menu,
click Page Options > Authoring tab. Select or clear the CSS 1.0
(formatting) and CSS 2.0 (positioning) check boxes.
|
Using anchors (in
FrontPage an anchor is called a "bookmark.")
-
Place the
cursor at the top of the page; then from the top menu, select Insert >
Bookmark.
-
From the
Bookmark window, type "top" in the Bookmark name text box and click OK.
-
Type "go to
top" at the end of the page, highlight that text, and click the Insert
Hyperlink icon in the toolbar or from the top menu select Insert >
Hyperlink.
-
From the
Insert Hyperlink window, click the Bookmark button, click the "top"
bookmark, and click OK, OK.
|
|
