If you'll remember, in the Microsoft Editor tutorial, we browsed on the internet and found a nice, colorful, background to replace the white default background in the web page. 

Now, in Microsoft Explorer we have the neat option to have a "Theme" background throughout our web site.  The theme uses essentially the same color scheme for each web page (you can change them page by page later if you desire in the Editor), its buttons and links. 

Now, in the Editor, click-on the browser button in the button bar.  Or, you can click-on File in the Menu bar and then click-on Preview in Browser.  If you do click-on Preview in Browser, Explorer will ask you to choose a browser that is saved on your computer.  We normally use Microsoft Explorer, as it has proven more reliable of late.  However, if you are a Netscape or other browser user, then choose your favorite if this is important to you. 

We’ll create a small personal web site to get you started.  You should be in Navigation View. 

First, left click-on the Home Page in the middle of the screen.  Prior to your click, it will appear as a light yellow icon, when you click-on it, the page will turn blue.  This indicates to FrontPage which page you desire to work on.  In this case we’ll add, and automatically link, three additional pages below our main home page. 

In this tutorial we’ll create a small web site using Microsoft FrontPage 98 Explorer.  If you have not completed the tutorial: Creating a Web Page Using Microsoft FrontPage Editor 98 for Windows 95/98 you should do so prior to attempting this tutorial.  The FrontPage Editor Tutorial explains how to create and edit a single web page; this knowledge is pretty essential prior to your attempting this tutorial.  In the Editor it explains how to hyperlink or link to other web pages.  The really neat thing about Explorer is that it creates these links “automatically” for you.

Now we’ll link,  using the internet, to a great small college in Virginia.  Make sure that you are below the sound link.  If you are not, click-below the sound link and see if the flashing cursor appears.  If it does not, tap Enter.

Now type-in something like:  A visit to Lynchburg College.

The cursor should be flashing to the right of the earth.  Tap Enter once to move the cursor below the earth.

Sound is a bit unique.  We could put the sound in the “background” to the page and it would begin playing when the page was opened if we were using only Microsoft Explorer.  However, other browsers can’t “hear” the sound when you do this.  So we’ll put the sound in with a “link.”  This is what web pages are all about:  links.

In the status bar at the bottom of the view screen you will see the Microsoft Editor (red feather) displayed.  We will now return to the Microsoft Editor to insert the background, animation and sound we just captured and saved.  So click-on the Micorsoft Editor button.

If you don’t have a sound card and speakers or earphones, you will not be able to hear the sound and may get an error message when you do the below procedure.  You may not want to attempt “capturing” the sound until you have these peripherals.

Next we’ll “capture” a famous annimation by Dan Austin.  In the upper left corner of Microsoft Explorer is an arrow that indicates “Back” when you move the cursor over it.  Click-on the back arrow two times.  This will take you back to the graphics page.  It has a black background.  Run down the page a bit more until you see:

Our web page looks a bit drab at this point, so let’s add a colorful background, an annimation, a sound and a link to a really wonderful college.

So far we have been working only in the Microsoft Editor.  We have not really seen how the web page will look to the “world” in a browser.  In the button bar, below the Menu bar, there is a button that will load our web page in the browser.