FrontPage XP Web page Editing

frontpage| Web page After the last study, presumably reader friends have mastered the use of FrontPage XP to establish and manage the site, then the establishment of a site, the next job is the reader's friends most concerned about the production and editing of the Web page. We know that a site is composed of multiple pages, a Web page is composed of text, images, sound, video, hyperlinks and other objects, this time we will be around the production of web elements, to use the FrontPage XP step-by-Step completion.

creation of web pages

There are two ways to create a Web page, one based on a blank Web page, and the other is a quick build based on the page templates provided by FrontPage XP. The former requires the author to construct the page layout format, the latter does not need to construct the page layout, but only modify the elements in the page template.

When you create a page based on a blank Web page, click File/New, click the Web page or Site command, pop-up the new page or web Task window, and under New, click Blank page.

To quickly create a Web page based on a page template, click File/New, and then click Web Page or site, and in the new page or Web Task window, under new from template, click Page Template. In the Page Template dialog box, click the template tab that you want to use, such as the General tab, and then click the template you want to use, and the thumbnail of the template appears in Preview view. Finally click the OK button to complete, Fronpage XP will open a new page based on the template.

Add search engine keywords

A page has just been set up, the following need to add keywords to the page, so that those who can identify the keyword search engine easier to find this page, thereby increasing the browsing rate.

Click the file/Properties command to open the Page Properties dialog box, click the Customize tab, click the Add button in user variables to open a System Variables Settings dialog box, and then in the Name text box, enter the name of the keyword, such as "Xword", and then in the Value text box , enter the search keywords for your web site, use commas as a separator between keywords, and then click OK, as shown in Figure 1.


Figure 1 Setting Search keywords here

set margins and title bar

If you customize the page margins, right-click the page, and choose Page Properties on the shortcut menu. Go to the Page Properties dialog box, and then click the Margins tab, where you can set the top and bottom margins of the page, select the Specify top margin check box, and then enter the height value of the margin below, if you select the Specify the left margin check box, and you need to enter the value of the distance to the left of the page in the following Value box, as shown in Figure 2.


Figure 2 The page margins are set to complete here

In the General option in this dialog box, you can also set the title of the page, which can be different from the filename, such as a page whose file name is Default.htm and its title can be "my home page." In the title text box, enter the title text of the file you want to appear in the page banner or link bar, and then click OK, as shown in Figure 3.


Figure 3 Setting a distinctive page title

apply a Web page theme

In Page view, open the page for which you want to apply a theme, and then click Format/Theme to open the Theme dialog box. If you want to apply the current theme to the currently selected page, you can select the selected pages option and then, in the list of topics, select the theme you want to apply, preview under sample theme, and then click OK to apply the currently selected theme to the Web page.

When you apply a theme to the current Web page, the page will no longer use the default theme settings for the Web site, which means that any theme changes applied to the current site will not affect this page theme.

Insert Picture

Web page production is inseparable from the picture, we look at how to add a picture in the Web page.

In Page view, place the insertion point where you want to insert the graphic, and then click Insert/Picture/From file, and in the Open dialog box, select the image file you want, and then click the Insert button to insert the picture in the current position of the page.

Select the picture you just inserted, and then click and drag the handle on the graphic to resize it to fit. After adjusting the size of the picture, you need to set the wrapping style of the picture. In Page view, right-click the picture, click Picture Properties on the shortcut menu, select the Appearance tab, and then in wrapping style, select how the text will flow around the graphic, and then in the layout Select the alignment of the picture in the horizontal spacing and vertical spacing boxes, and then enter the spacing to display at the edge of the graphic, as shown in Figure 4.


Figure 4 Properties for inserting a picture in this setting

Settings for Hyperlinks

The way to create a hyperlink is simple, you can first select the text or picture you want to make a link to, and then click the Insert Hyperlink Tool button in the toolbar, select the page or file you want to link to in the Open dialog box, or directly enter the link URL, such as http://www.tongyi.net, as shown in Figure 5.


Figure 5 Hyperlink settings are the simplest

In addition, there is a way to hyperlink in a Web page, is to point to e-mail, such as some of the pages often have "write me" links, first select the text or pictures you need to link, and then click the "Insert Hyperlink" button, in the Open dialog box, select the "E-mail Address" button, "e-mail Address" box, and then in the Subject box, enter the subject of the e-mail message.

after a few steps, a Web page on the basic production well.

Arrival tip: After a few steps, the basic elements of the Web page are properly edited to make it more in line with your style. There are a lot of techniques in the process of making the Web page, and next time we will start from the layout of the page and introduce how to plan a Web page.