FrontPage - Getting Started

 

1. To begin setting up your Web site on the Wesleyan server (named Condor), open FrontPage and select "Open Web" under "File" in the main menu.
    

2. Enter "http://condor.wesleyan.edu/username" in the "Folder Name" box and click to "Open" (replacing the 'username' here with your actual Wesleyan email username, of course). 
    
   
    

3. Enter your email username and password where prompted.  Important Note: If you are using a public computer, make sure you uncheck the box to save your password. If the box is checked, click in the box to remove the check.
   
    
    

4. FrontPage opens to a screen that looks something like (without the explanatory text in red, of course):
    
   
    
   As with most Microsoft products, the drop-down Menu Bar accesses all available functions, and the Standard and Formatting Toolbars offer quickly accessible icons to click to perform the most common tasks.
    

5. Start creating a Web page (see later pages in this tutorial for specifics).
    

6. When you save your page, an icon for it will appear in the Folder List. Double click on the icon to open the page for editing or updating.

To create a new page, you can
        - click the "New Page" icon
        - look under "File" in the main menu for "New," then select "Page"
        - right click in the Folder List area and click "New Page" in the menu.

To create a new folder,
        - look under "File" in the main menu for "New," then select "Folder"
        - right click in the Folder List area and click "New Folder" in the menu.
You can create more files and folders within your new folder.

To create more that one Web site, create two or more folders and then turn each folder into a Web. FrontPage uses "Web" as a label for a separate Web site, each with its own structure, files, folders, images, etc, and each with its own reports accessible from the list of options under Views. To turn a file into a folder, right click on the folder icon in the Folder List and select to "Convert to Web."

Make sure one of your files is named "index.html". Your main file, your primary home page, the page you want people to see first, should be named "index.html". If someone goes to your website at "http://username.web.wesleyan.edu", the "index.html" page will automatically be accessed. Without an "index.html" page, those accessing your page would have to know a specific file name (http://username.web.wesleyan.edu/filename.html). Otherwise, anyone who accesses http://username.web.wesleyan.edu would see a list of all the files and folders at your site rather than the page you want them to see first.

If you have more than one "Web," make sure the main file in each one is named "index.html".

 

Next: Page Settings

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Contents - How a Web Page Works - Getting Started - Page Settings - Text Options
Creating Links - Images - Tables - Preview - Design Tips - Managing Your Web Site