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a Front Page Web
You can open your web/ webs easily using several option that
Front Page provides.
 | Choose File, Open Web from the file menu |
| On the Front Page Toolbar click down arrow
beside the open icon and select Open Web from the drop down
list. |
| The third way is to go to File menu and
select Recent Webs, and the name of the web you want to
open. |
You can specify which web you want to load
first when you start Front Page. To do this:
| Go to Tools Menu, Options |
| In the Options window, check "Open
last web automatically" box. |
The ensuing Open Web dialog box provides
several ways of looking at your web/webs.
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Using the Folder List
It is primarily a navigation aid. Clicking a
folder displays the contents of that folder in the Contents
pane.
| Open a web in Front Page 2000. |
| Click Folders icon in the Views bar. |
| Click folders/sub-folders in the folder
list. |
| The contents are displayed in the contents
pane. |
Folder list will not allow you to view
sub-webs of the current web. To view sub-webs, double click the
web icon in the folder list pane. It opens a new instance of
Front Page 2000 where you can see the sub-web's folders and
sub-folders.
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Right clicking a folder in the Folders View,
yields several options on the shortcut menu:
| Copy |
| Delete |
| Properties |
| New Page |
| New Folder |
| Cut |
| Rename |
| Convert to Web : Converts a folder from a
folder into a web. |
| Convert to Folder: Converts a web to a
folder.
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Working with Front Page's Views
Folders View
Not very graphically pleasing but is well
suited for people who are comfortable dealing with files and
folders. Intended for web designers and maintainers who like
working at file and folders level.
To access Folders view:
| Click Folders icon on Views bar |
| Or alternatively, click Folders from the
Views Menu |
Folders View shows Contents pane and Folder
List. It is like Windows Explorer. You can see your files and
folders here.
The contents pane displays the following
information:
| Name of file or folder or web. |
| Title of the document |
| Size of the document |
| Type of the document, like .html , .asp or
simply a web. |
| Modified date. |
| Modified by. |
| Comments. |
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Working with
Individual Pages in Folders View
Double clicking a document in Folders View
opens it in Page View Front Page editor. You can edit and save
your page here. Right clicking a document will yield a short cut
menu with several options:
| Open: opens the document. |
| Open with: opens a document in the editor
of your choice. |
| Cut: removes a page or folder and places it
in a clipboard. Use it to move files or folders around. |
| Copy: copies to clipboard a file or a
folder. |
| Rename: lets you change the name of a file
or folder. |
| Delete: removes a file or folder
permanently. Use carefully. |
| Add Task: used to assign tasks to people to
manage webs. |
| Properties: shows a file's properties. |
| Check in/check out: It will only appear if
you have the check in/check out feature enabled through
Tools, Web Settings dialog box. Very useful for
multi-designer shops.
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Reports View
Is a tool for maintaining your
web. It runs several reports on your web like how many broken
hyperlinks you have in your web. Chapter
18 covers this in greater detail.
Navigation View
Offers a visual display of your web along with
its navigational structure. Helps you organize your web's
navigation bars. It makes it easy to add and organize your web
structure. To work in Navigation View
| Click Navigation in the Views Bar |
| Or Click Navigation from the Views Menu |
| Navigation Views also shows Folders List |
| You can drag and drop files from the Folder
list to make your structure. |
| Each rectangular box in the navigation view
is a page. |
| It shows the relationship of one page to
the other. Also the hierarchy of the web is evident in this
view. |
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You can do a lot of things in this view.
| You can add new pages. |
| Drag and drop pages from the folder list to
organize your structure. |
| You can rename a page, and give them a new
title. |
| Right click any file in Navigation View and
a menu pops up with several options. |
Navigation View is the View used when Front
Page formats your navigation bars for your web. If the structure
is not right, the navigation bars would not be correct. You can
do the following in Navigation when you right click a box:
| Open a page |
| Open a page in your editor of choice |
| Add an external hyperlink to your page and
web. |
| Cut |
| Copy |
| Paste |
| Rename |
| Delete |
| View Sub-tree Only: lets you see the child
pages of the selected page. |
| Add Task |
| Properties |
| Rotate: rotates the web structure. |
Several other options are available. Explore
and experiment with them.
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Hyperlinks View
Hyperlinks view shows explicitly the links
between the various documents in the web. Hyperlinks View comes
with Folders List.
| Select a file in the Folder List |
| Then click Hyperlinks icon on the Views Bar |
| It will show you how the selected page is
related/linked to other pages. |
| Right click any document in the Hyperlinks
View and choose Move to Center. |
| You see the selected page move to the
center and its relationship to other pages. |
| You can click the plus (+) sign on any
document to view its relationship to other pages. |
You can do several things using Hyperlinks
context menu. Click away from a document in the Hyperlinks
window.
| Show Page titles shows the titles of the
pages |
| Hyperlinks to Picture shows how the
pictures are hyperlinked. |
| Repeated Hyperlinks shows multiple
hyperlinks to several pages. |
| Hyperlinks Inside Page shows links within a
page |
| Web Settings brings up the web settings
dialog box.
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Front Page Menus
We are already familiar with most of them. To
get more detailed information go to pp. 352-356.
No need to repeat what you know. Play around some more with the
Menu options.
