Microsoft FrontPage 2003

Configuring FrontPage

For our requirements, we need to change only a few options.

Click on the menu Tools | Options, this opens the options window. Next, click on the tab “General.”
Remove all checkmarks under this tab except for-
1. Open last web automatically when FrontPage starts.
2. Show status bar
3. Warn before applying themes to all pages in a web.
In FrontPage 2003 click on Tools | Page Options | Authoring and change the drop down menu under FrontPage Extensions and Share Point Technologies to “none.”
This will make all menus that require the extensions inactive.

Page Properties

The Page Properties dialog box is used to set the attributes of newly created or existing web pages. These attributes include adding a page title, format changes, and positioning a page in a web browser.

To access these attributes open a web page and then:

Click on the menu File | Page Properties
Right-click anywhere inside the page’s window, and choose Page Properties from the short-cut menu

The Page Properties dialog box contains six tabs: General, Formatting, Advanced, Custom, Language, and Workgroup. Each of these tabs controls different page attributes, which are discussed in the subheadings below.

General Page Properties

Under the tab General, there are several options.

Location: This read-only text box displays the location (URL) of the open page. The location in the caption shows that the page exists in a file located on my hard drive. file:///C:/fishing/default.htm

The directory is called fishing and the page’s name is default.htm. This is the lead page or so called home page in my directory. The name default will not display in the URL.

Title: Enter the page’s title in this box. The title identifies the name of the page in the title bar of a web browser.

Description: Enter a short description of about your web page here. FrontPage adds a description tag inside the code, which is stored in some search engines. If your description matches a users query it will be added to the search results.

Keywords: Enter any words that best describe your page here. Place a comma between each word limiting them to seven; most search engines categorize only the first seven words. FrontPage adds a keyword tag inside the code that is detected and stored by a search engine to produce search results from a user.

Base location: Leave this area blank. It is rarely used even by advanced users.

Default Target Frame: Used to update pages that appear within a frame page. A frame page is a web page that is divided into two or more sections. When a user clicks on a navigation link, the new page opens within the frame.

Formatting Properties

The options under Formatting are used to assign a web page’s color scheme.

Background

Background picture: Place a checkmark in the box provided to use a picture for the background instead of a color.

Next, click on the Browse button to locate the desired picture.

Note: a picture that is smaller than the web page will tile across the page. To prevent this requires adding some hand coding.

Such as inserting an in-line style into the code, for example:
<style type="text/css">
 </style>

Colors

Background: The control used to assign a color for the background of the page.

Text: The control used to assign a color to text.

Hyperlink: The control used to assign a color to a hyperlink.

Visited link: The control used to assign a color to a visited hyperlink. The assigned color appears on a visited link when the user immediately returns to the page. When the page is refreshed the link returns to the color assigned to the Hyperlink.

Active link: This control is used to assign a color to the hypertext link when someone clicks on the link.

Advanced

The Advanced tab is used to set page margins and CSS styles.

Margins

Most web browsers use a default setting of 8 to 15 pixels on all sides for displaying web pages. To customize these settings for your web page use the controls below.

Top Margin: Enter the number of pixels that you want your page to display from the top of the web browser.

Left Margin: Enter the number of pixels that you want your page to display in the left margin of the web browser.
For example, entering "zero" to the Top Margin, Left Margin, Bottom Margin, and the Right Margin positions the web page to top of a browser’s window.

Margin Width: This controls the amount of space that you set between the left and right edges in the browser window.

Margin Height: is the amount of space that you set between the top and bottom edges in the browser window.
Note: These settings are only applied when a new web page is created and not when used in conjunction with a University template.

Styles

Body style: Click on this button to open the Modify Style dialog box, which allows you to modify body style for the current page.

Enable hyperlink rollovers: Check this box to change the appearance or color of the text when a mouse passes over a hyperlink.

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