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BEGINNING TO USE FRONTPAGE 2000
TO EDIT WEB PAGES

Dr. Richard L. Bowman
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA 22812

II. Start FrontPage 2000

1. Begin by clicking on the Windows "Start" button, selecting "Programs" and locating the link to FrontPage 2000. (Often it will be in a Microsoft Office folder, or it may be in a Multimedia folder.) Once FrontPage 2000 is running, a blank web page will appear ready for composing.

2. Set the options appropriately for basic web authoring. FrontPage 2000 has a number of default settings that add a number of different functionalities to web pages that are not compatible with all of the major browsers. The first step is to change these. From the "Tools" menu, select "Page Options." Click on the "Compatibility" tab. Then set the "Browser" option to "Custom" if that is not the option showing. Also, click on the option, "Enable with Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions," so as to un-check it. Make certain that the only options selected in the next section are "JavaScript," "Java applets," "CSS 1.0" and "CSS 2.0." These last two options allow for automatic generation of cascading style sheets, however, some older browsers do not support this capability and not all of the newer browsers implement style sheets in the same way. So for the most certain compatibility with most browsers, do not leave "CSS 1.0" or "CSS 2.0" checked. Your Page Options/Compatibility dialog box should look like that shown below.

Also, from the "Tools" menu, select "Options," not "Page Options" as done above. Then click on the "General" tab, if it is not already showing. Click the checkboxes as necessary to mark the options as shown below.

3. To create a webpage from scratch, begin by typing directly into this clean web page window, as seen below.

To create a new web page while editing another page, simply click on the "New" button on the toolbar. For more options, click on the "File" menu in FrontPage 2000 and then click on the selection called "New." A list of possible "wizards" or default types of web pages will pop up. Select the one most appropriate to your needs.

4. To edit a web page that already exists on your hard drive or your institution's web server, locate the file and double-click on it to display it in Internet Explorer. From the toolbar of Internet Explorer press the arrow beside the "Edit" button and select FrontPage Editor. (If no "Edit" button exists or the FrontPage Editor is not available, contact the IT Center.) One may also first run FrontPage 2000 and open the web page file from the "File" menu.