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In this tutorial we’ll first create a single
web page using Microsoft FrontPage 2003. Then,
we’ll create a web site, which consists of multiple,
linked web pages. For the single web page
you can save your work on a formatted 3 ½ inch
diskette. For the web site it would be prudent to
save the data on your hard drive. Or, you can save them
both on your hard drive.
To load the Front Page 2003 program,
Double click the left mouse button quickly on the
FrontPage 2003 icon on the main Windows screen, or
click-the left button on Start in the lower
left corner of the screen, then click left-on
Programs, and then click left on Microsoft
FrontPage.
You should now be in the Microsoft FrontPage
2003 main screen. If you’re in FrontPage 2003, you’ll
see, in the upper left corner of the screen, a title
that looks like the one just to the right.
In this tutorial,
whenever we indicate that you need to click a mouse button, it
will mean to click the left mouse button – unless we indicate
that you should click the right mouse button. So, always move
the cursor over the “place” we indicate and “click left” unless
we tell you otherwise.
Click-on all
of the Titles in the Menu bar (like the one
below) and familiarize yourself with what they do. As you
click-on each Title, look at the items in the menus that
“drop” down when you click-on each Title.
You’ll notice that the major portion of
your screen, below the Menu Bar and Button Bars, is white.
In the upper left corner of this white area you’ll
see an image like the one on the right – new_page1.htm.
This is like a new, default document in a word processor, but
it’s a default FrontPage webpage. Later, after we’ve begun
creating our web page, we’ll save the web page with a different
name.
Now, slowly move the cursor over
the buttons in the button bars (like the one below)
and read the text help’s that appear. You’ll need to
pause a few seconds on each button to give the text
help time to appear. Notice that the buttons “do”
the same “things” as many of the drop down menu items.
If you have used Microsoft FrontPage 2000 and
2002, one of the first things you probably noticed
was that the Views Bar on the left side of the screen was not
available in FrontPage 2003. It is really still there in
a new way. When you are working on a single web page, as we
are now, you’ll notice at the lower left corner of the screen,
an image similar to the one on the right. This has replaced
the Views Bar and the tabs that were below the web
page design area in FrontPage 2000 and 2002.
When we are working in our web site, later in the
tutorial, you’ll see that this area is now “tailored” to a web
site (see image below).
When you get used to this you will find that it
is very handy to use. As you move around your web site, from
the site to a page, and back again, you’ll notice that these
“bottom bars” change to assist you. This also gives you more
area in which to create your web pages, as the Views bar is not
long taking up space.
 
A FrontPage 2003 Task Pane,
which allows you to do more “things” as you work with you web
pages and site, replaces the “old” Views bar. An image of the
initial Getting Started Task Pane is on the left.
If you click-on the small down pointing
triangle at the top of the Getting Started Task Pane, the
menu shown at the right will appear.
We’ll be using the Task Pane a lot as we go
through this tutorial. Task Panes are in all of the Office 2003
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