Using Frontpage

What two steps are recommended in planning your site?

-establishing a goal for your site first is important: sketch a site structure.

-After you've sketched a map of your site, it's time to start sketching a common layout for each of your pages.

What is a web server?

A Web server is a computer that runs special serving software. That software "serves" HTML pages and associated files when requested by a client, such as a Web browser.

Provide examples of some features that FrontPage Server Extensions provide for a website?

If a Web server is running FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Services, your Web pages can have handy features like link bars, discussions, and hit counters. World Wide Web and Intranet.

How do you put your website on a web server?

To put your site on a Web server, you publish it. Publishing generally means copying all of the files to a remote location on a server. In most cases, the remote location is either an HTTP path or an FTP path. The path you use depends on what technologies your server supports.

FrontPage has two key functions – website design and …..?

Website Design and MANAGEMENT.


What are some commonly used file names for Home Pages accepted by servers?

Commonly used file names for Home Pages accepted by servers are .htm was created by Windows/DOS because of it's requirement for 3 character file extensions. It also references HTML (and XHTML) files, and can be used on any web server, regardless of operating system. index.htm and index.htmlThis is the default page in a directory on most web servers. If you want someone to go to your web page, but you don't want them to have to type a file name, you should name the first page index.html. For example http://webdesign.about.com/index.htm will go to the same place as http://webdesign.about.com/. Some web servers call this page "default.htm" and you can change the filename if you have access to the server configuration.

What is FrontPage Metadata and which two folders contain these files?

FrontPage metadata is information about your FrontPage Web site that makes managing the site possible. This data is used by FrontPage to do all of the great management features we spoke of earlier (creating and moving files, running reports, publishing, and so on). The folders are the _vti_cnf folder and the _vti_pvt folder.

There are two basic types of website can you create in FrontPage; what are they and how do they differ?

The two basic types are disk-based and server-based. A disk-based site is a FrontPage Web site you create on your local hard disk and then later publish to a Web server. A server-based site is one you create and work with directly on a Web server, without the extra step of publishing.

Follow the prompts in the “How to create a web page” section at the end of the tutorial to create a  FrontPage website containing one or more pages.