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 FrontPage 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. 

If you haven’t already, you’ll notice that there is no “Save” option under File in the Menu Bar.  Nor is there a little “Save diskette” in the button bar.  One of the neat things in FrontPage is that it automatically saves your web site as you make each change.  To prove this, click-on File in the Menu Bar and then click-on Exit.  FrontPage will close.  Now open FrontPage as you did at the beginning of this tutorial.  When FrontPage appears, click-on File and then click-on Open.  The Open File menu screen (on the next page) will appear.  You will need to first click-on the small triangle to the right of the Look in area, then when the menu appears below, click-on the C: drive.

In the button bar along the left side of your screen the Page button should be depressed.

To create a web site, click-on File in the Menu bar and then click-on New and then on Web (should look like the picture on the left). 
The New (FrontPage Web) menu will appear (see below).  It will not look exactly like this.  You will need to do a couple of simple things to create a “place on your hard disk” for your web pages. 

First, make sure that the upper left icon “One Page Web” is highlighted.  If it is not, click- on it. 
Second, in the “white area” under Options – Specify the location of the new web:  type-in the following:  c:webtest.  Your New menu screen should look like the one below.  When it does, click-on OK. 


This will take you back to the FrontPage 2000 main screen.  However, you will notice there are some changes to the appearance of the screen.  On the left side you will notice that two additional “columns” have appeared: Folder List and index. tm.


The Folder List indicates that your new web site is located on the C: drive in the Folder webtest.  Notice also that two new folders have been created by FrontPage – private and images.  FrontPage has also created your initial home page called index.htm .  When we finished the single web page in the last tutorial, we clicked-on Reveal Tags.  In the index.htm screen you are in the Page (edit) “mode,” just like you were when we created the initial single web page.

To create our web site we’ll want to be in the Navigation View.  So, click-on the Navigation button as indicated by the arrow above.

A little web page and a world globe will appear with an arrow circling the page and the globe.  This indicates that your web site is being created as you requested.  When this process is complete you will see your initial Home Page of the web site in the center of the screen.  Take a few minutes to look at all of the “stuff” on the screen.  In the center of the screen you will see:



Take note of the words below the Home Page, they’re important. We’ll come back to this in a moment.

In this tutorial we’ll create a small web site using Microsoft FrontPage 2000.  If you have not completed the tutorial: Creating a Web Page Using Microsoft FrontPage Editor 2000 for Windows 95/98 you should do so prior to attempting this tutorial.  This Tutorial explains how to create and edit a single web page; this knowledge is pretty essential prior to your attempting this tutorial.  In the previous tutorial it explains how to hyperlink or link to other web pages.  The really neat thing about this tutorial is that it creates these links “automatically” for you.

So far you have been working in a program very similar to a word processor with some limitations.  Actually, FrontPage 2000 has been “converting” your work into the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).  To “see” the computer program code you have created we’ll do two things.

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:  Visit 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” of the page and it would begin playing when the page is opened if we were using only Microsoft Explorer.  However, other browsers can’t “play” the sound when you do this.  So we’ll insert the sound with a “link.”  This is what web pages are all about:  links.

Since we previously saved the earth, we’ll insert the earth in our web page!  Sounds rather awesome.