Course Outline
Web Page Design Made Easy with FrontPage 98
5-Week Course, March/April 1999
Placer
School For Adults
CLASS 1: Introduction/Overview
- Students should already be proficient in Window 95/98 and have Internet experience
- Present overview of what they will walk away with after 5 weeks of class
- Find out who the students are and what they hope to take away from the class
Getting Started with FrontPage
- Creating a new web
- Importing an existing web
- Using the Editor and Explorer
How to Approach a Website Project
- Deciding what you want to do (purpose of website)
- Choosing a Wizard or Do It Yourself
- Designing the organization and navigation
- Creating pages
- Publishing documents
- Maintenance of website
Creating a Web with a FrontPage Wizard
- Pick the Corporate Presence or Personal Presence web
- Walk through choices, filling out information, picking web themes
CLASS 2: Customizing Webs
(hyperlinks, text and paragraph formatting, page properties)
- Using the Task View to organize the things you need to do
- Using the FrontPage editor to place text
- Making links, arranging the relationships between pages
- Making mailto links
- Formatting fonts, pros and cons of various ways
- Formatting paragraphs
- Page properties (background, link colors, titles, etc)
- Design theory: Why websites are laid out the way they are
- How FrontPage lays things out for you automatically
CLASS 3: More Customizing Webs
(images and tables)
- Importing data from other formats (from MS Word, WordPerfect, etc)
- Inserting images
- Linking images to other pages
- Linking images to larger images
- Using tables to layout your page (creating tables, adjusting tables)
- The limitations of HTML for layout
CLASS 4: Website Consistency
- Why it's important your website is consistent in "look and feel" and layout
- Go through website so far and fix inconsistencies: create headers and footers to use throughout
- Which of FrontPage's "helpful features" to avoid to ensure global compatibility
- Linking to other websites and using the Net as a resource for your own website (pros and cons of offsite linking, too)
- Find some websites to link to and make a link page for them (or incorporate them into existing pages)
CLASS 5: Review & Questions
- Guidelines for finding an ISP (local, etc)
- Uploading your website (tools, etc)
- Review everything from previous classes and answer remaining questions
- Answer questions on any areas we didn't cover (if possible)