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Viewing web pages in a browser

Now, in Design View, 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.  Your initial view of your Home Page (index.htm) should look like the image at the top of the next page.

Now you’re in a browser and your “blank” web site will respond like any web site.  When you move the cursor over New Page 1, 2 and 3, you will notice that the “little pointy hand” appears indicating a hyperlink.  Click-on New Page 1.  Your New Page 1 should look like the image below.

Notice that all of the “text buttons” are on the “line” below New Page 1 (see arrow above).    These are “real” hyperlinks back to the Home Page and to Pages 2 and 3.  When we created our Shared Borders in FrontPage 2003, links for pages that are ABOVE or on the SAME level as Page 1, show below the page title (New Page 1).   It does not matter if there are more than three pages above, or on the same level as the current page, all the pages will show with their names.  These are part of the automatic hyperlink that we mentioned earlier.  As indicated earlier, in the tutorial, this means that all of the pages are either above [Home] or on the same Navigator level as New Page 1 [New Page 2 and 3]. 

Now click-on New Page 3 in the browser, remember that we created two new pages below New Page 3.  Your browser should now look like the image below.

Notice the line below New Page 3 contains the text links for pages above (Home) or on the same Navigator level (New Pages 1 and 2).  The text links on the left are to pages below New Page 3 (Pages 4 and 5).