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Microsoft® FrontPage® Version 2002 Step by Step
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Author
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Online Training Solutions, Inc.
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Pages
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368
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Disk
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1 Companion CD(s)
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Beg/Int
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Published
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06/06/2001
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ISBN
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9780735613003
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Price
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$29.99
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Chapter 7: Enhancing the Capabilities of Your Web Site
Chapter 7 Enhancing the Capabilities of Your Web Site
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Organize files and folders efficiently from within FrontPage.
- Link between Web pages based on navigational structure or other criteria.
- Create a subweb and link to subwebs and external sites.
- Add ready-made components and dynamic elements to your site.
In the early days of its existence, the Internet was used primarily as a way of making large volumes of information available to government agencies and universities around the world. This information was static text, and it was of interest only to researchers and people who needed it for their jobs. When the World Wide Web was developed, it added graphics and interactivity, and the ability to jump from one item of information to another. Static pages of text are a thing of the past. These days, to create an effective Web site you have to be able to enhance it with the bells and whistles that distinguish dynamic Web sites from static ones.
There is no point in building a site if your visitors can’t easily move among its pages to find the information that interests them. If you have organized your site into a logical system of files and folders, FrontPage can intuit the hierarchy of the site and can add navigational tools so that your Web visitors can easily find their way around using elements such as shared borders and link bars. You can also use graphic elements such as image maps to visually show visitors what’s available and how to access it. If your Web site must serve the needs of several different groups of visitors, it might be appropriate to divide your site into a main Web site and one or more linked subwebs so that particular categories of visitors aren’t distracted by information they don’t need. For example, if The Garden Company wants its Web site to cater to both customers and employees, it might create a subweb that is accessible only to employees with a user name and password and then use the subweb to communicate information of internal interest.
In addition to enhancing the navigational capabilities of your site, you will want to explore the categories of Web components and dynamic elements that come with FrontPage. These ready-made components add a professional touch to your Web site by inserting special-purpose mini-programs that perform such tasks as counting the number of visitors or scrolling banners across the page.
In this chapter, you will organize files and folders within a Web site in a way that makes it easier to enhance the site. You will then refine the navigational structure of the Web site by adding shared borders, link bars, hyperlinks, and image maps. You will also create a subweb and link it to the main Web site. Then you’ll take a look at some of the dynamic elements that you can add to a page, including the Web components that come with FrontPage.
You will be working with files that are stored in the following subfolders of the SBS\FrontPage\Capabilities folder: Organize, Subweb, LinkPages, LinkSites, Components, and Elements.
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