FrontPage98
FrontPage has two programs, Explorer and Editor.
When you open FrontPage, it opens the Explorer. Click "cancel" and then select from "tools" "show FrontPage Editor". Now you have FrontPage editor open and you can open one of the pages you have already edited or you can start to edit a new page.
Tables
The easiest way to add a table is with "insert table" button from standard toolbar. You'll find "table properties" -menu by clicking the right button of the mouse when your cursor is on the table.
Images
From Insert menu you'll find "insert image" or "insert clipart". When you have selected the image you can activate the image toolbar where are different tools with which you can edit your image.
 This is a clipart in a table. |
 In this clipart the background is transparent. You can
find the "make transparent" tool from the image toolbar. |
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Here one cell is splitted into two cells. | |
Hyperlinks and hotspots
A link to the IMW homepage
When you do a image as a hyperlink, a blue border will appear around the image. You can take the border away by setting border thickness = 0 (image properties and appearance).
Send an e-mail to me.
This is a picture with two hotspots. You can make hotspots with polygon, circle or retangle from image toolbar. You must first activate image toolbar by selecting your image.
Note! FrontPage98 creates server-side image maps, which requires a FrontPage server, usually NT IIS server. Helia's myy-server is an unix-server. When you are doing web pages to such a server, you can avoid needless problems by defining FrontPage to use client-side image maps, which are handled in browser. This definition you'll find in FrontPage Explorer's menu Tools/Web settings/Advanced. One such kind of needless problem is a wrong directory path to an image with hotspots, when it is on Helia's myy server.
If you can't use FrontPage Explorer you can correct the directory path FrontPage has generated. One way is just edit the html-code which frontpage has generated and take the first part of the directory path away. An other possibility is:
- move your image to the server in the right directory
- when you edit your page, take the image from the server and check that the path is correct
- add hotspots to your image
- save your file.
Frames
When you make frames, you have to have at least three pages:
- one, where you define, what kind of frames you'll use
- one, where you have your navigation bar
- one, where you have the contents of your first page.
Be careful! Each of these must have a different name. It is recommended that you'll create first the other pages and then the page where you define your frames.
You can choose your frame from the frame models which you'll find when you click "File - New - Frames". If you have the other pages ready, you can just add them to your frame by clicking buttons "set initial page".
After that you can edit all these pages separately or in the frame. If you edit them in the frame, you must save them clicking "Frame - save". The whole frame will be saved by clicking "File - save".
When you add hyperlinks, you have to define the target frame. The default value is "main frame" where you may have your contents. The other possibilities are:
- same page
- whole page
- new window
In general the default value is ok. However, if you have links to other web sites, you have to use values whole page or new window. It would be a copyright problem, if the pages of an other web site will open in your frames.
Forms
You can add Forms to your web page. You'll click "View - Forms toolbar" and you'll get the bar with Form elements:
- one-line text box
- scrolling text box
- check box
- radio button
- drop-down menu
- push button
It is recommended to start with a one-line text box. Then move your cursor between the box and buttons and add extra rows by pushing enter so you'll have a whole form with one box at the top and two buttons (submit and reset) at the end.
Now you can add different elements and texts to your form. You can also edit the text of the buttons if you like.
Where will the filled form be sent? Please, ask your webmaster, if you could use some already existing cgi-scripts to get the feedback in a readable form to your e-mail. In Helia we can use the script which is in the address: http://www.helia.fi/cgi-bin/lomakeposti
How to define where you like to get the feedback from the form? Click the form with the right button of the mouse, select "form properties". Select "send to others" and "options". Write there the address where you can find the cgi-script, method "post" is ok, click ok. Select "Advanced" and "add". You have to give a value to at least three parametres:
- to <your e-mail address>
- from <your e-mail address>
- name <name of the form message e.g. feedback>
If you like, you can make your own feedback page which will be shown to users when they submit the form. Then you must give a value to a fourth parameter:
- nexturl <the whole address of your feedback page>
Note! If you use forms, you should know that there might be a data security problem, if someone will put too large an input in a form.
Example of a form:
My hobby
Page updated 2.8.2000
Eija Kalliala