Learn how to build FrontPage Web Sites from the ground up. This course will teach you everything from the basics of Web page creation all the way up to the more advanced features.

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Introduction

Introduction to HTML

• Explain hypermedia vs. linear media
• Define HTML
• Describe the Basic Document Structure

Overview of FrontPage 2003

• Switch between and describe the three editor views
• Work with the menu options
• Enable and disable toolbars in FrontPage

The Anatomy of HTML

• Describe the Basic Document Structure
• Identify the sub-elements of the header

Content Formatting

• List and describe the different heading elements
• Know when paragraphs are created
• Insert line breaks where necessary
• Add a Horizontal Rule

Character Formatting

• Change the colour and size of your text
• Use the format toolbar to change to appearance of text
• Align your text
• Add special characters
• Use other character formatting elements

Lists

• Create a unordered list
• Create an ordered list
• Create a definition list
• Create other lists Nest lists

Anchors, URL, and Maps

• Insert links into documents
• Define link types
• Define URL
• List some commonly used URLs
• Set link colours
• Create an image map using FrontPage's Mapping Tools

Images

• Distinguish between supported graphics formats and unsupported graphics formats
• Determine which graphic format for the type of image
• Add images to your pages

Tables

• Create a table
• Change a tables properties
• Edit a table
• Add a caption
• Modify a table cell and its properties
• Perform advanced table editing

Frames

• Create a frames based page
• Work with the frameset, frame, and noframes elements
• Use the attributes of the frames elements to control the display
• Set targets appropriately

Forms

• Create a FORM
• Add elements to a FORM
• Define CGI
• Describe the purpose of a CGI application

Special Elements

• Create live pages using the Meta element
• Use the Meta element to add information relevant to Internet search engines and people viewing your source code
• Add background sound to an HTML page
• Add a Marquee
• Add blinking text

Page Layout

• Use Technical Design Considerations in planning an HTML page or project
• Discuss effective page layout
• Plan a successful web site
• Create a web site that is easily navigated

Cascading Style Sheet

• Describe how to use a cascading style sheet
• Add an inline style
• Add an embedded style sheet

Java and JavaScript

• Describe JAVA
• Add a JAVA Applet to a page
• Describe JavaScript
• Add JavaScript to an HTML page

ActiveX and VBScript

• Describe ActiveX
• Add an ActiveX object to a web page
• Describe VBScript
• Add some VBScript to and HTML page managing and uploading a Web site

Advanced

Designed for experienced FrontPage users wishing to enhance their skills.

Frames

• Frames overview
• Creating a frames page
• Setting frame properties
• Hyperlinks and targets
• Noframes content

Cascading Style Sheets

• CSS overview
• Using FrontPage styles
• User-defined styles
• Inline cascading style sheets
• Creating embedded style sheets
• Creating external style sheets
• Adding and removing styles
• Applying styles to page elements

Animation

• Creating page transitions
• Dynamic HTML effects
• Overview of events
• Swapping images
• Interactive buttons
• Adding sound and video
• Inserting Flash content

Layers

• Layers and CSS2
• Creating layers
• Specifying attributes
• Manipulating layers
• Adding layer behaviours
• Showing and hiding layers

Components

• Overview of built-on components
• Include page
• Scheduled include page
• Schedule picture
• Hit counter
• Date and time
• Table of contents

Databases

• Overview of data-driven sites
• Creating a database connection
• Setting up query pages
• Displaying database results
• Formatting database results