Improving Your skills

Inserting Text:

When FrontPage was developed, MS’ intention was to make it as close to MS Word 97 as possible. As you will see editing and entering text is as easy as positioning the cursor and typing. However, since we are in a HTML format, there are a few tricks to know: I have listed a few:

• When you hit the enter key, FrontPage assumes you are staring a new paragraph and will double space. To avoid this you can either: Hold the shift key down and press enter (shift + enter) or
  go to format>paragraph,
  Set

Spacing, Before to 0

Spacing, After to 0

• When you insert text into a cell, it will place it in the middle unless you change the defaults. To change the defaults, right click in the cell, choose Cell properties and change the defaults to your choice such as top + center or top + left.

Manual Hyperlinks

Navigation Bars and Page Banners are Great but when transferring Files from other computers, FTP etc they should be avoided .Hyperlinks can be manually constructed using FrontPage and they are a great deal more reliable.

• Open your Digital Portfolio
• Create retitle and save a now page called “Main Page
• Open the home page, and type the following text

Welcome to the Digital Portfolio of “Your Name”

Click Here to enter

Highlight the text by dragging the cursor over it.

Click on the hyperlink icon.

The Insert Hyperlink dialogue box will appear.

Choose the Main Page file

Click OK.

Click Save.

TEST Move the cursor over your link.

Hold the control key down and click on the hyperlink.

This should open the page.

Set return Hyperlink

Type “Return to Home Page!” at the bottom of the Main Page

Repeat the steps listed above to set a return link!

Look carefully at tthis dialogue box! You can set Bookmarks, and email.