Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 : The Complete Reference,9780072229400

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 : The Complete Reference

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ISBN13: 9780072229400
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Pub. Date: 2003-10-07
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Summary

Create and manage professional-quality Web sites with help from this comprehensive resource. Learn to use this popular Web authoring tool to build a simple Web site from scratch, or design and manage a complicated e-commerce site using the latest tools, processes, and features.

Author Biography

Martin S. Matthews (Freeland, WA) has over 30 years of computing experience. Marty has also held management and executive-level positions in several companies. He has been both a company president of a 45-person firm for six years and a vice president of finance at a 500-person firm for seven years. In these positions Marty could see the need for and use of the end products of computing. Marty has been writing computer-related books for more than 15 years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Part I Getting Started
1 Designing Quality Web Applications
3(46)
The Internet
3(1)
The World Wide Web
4(1)
LANs and an Intranet
4(1)
Internet Protocols
5(4)
TCP/IP
6(1)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
7(1)
Hypertext Markup Language
8(1)
What Is a Web Page?
9(3)
Designing Quality Web Applications
12(18)
Gathering Requirements
13(1)
Organizing Information
13(5)
Structuring the Web Application
18(2)
Developing a Navigation Scheme
20(10)
Working with Graphics
30(7)
What Are Graphics For?
30(1)
What Kinds of Graphics Are There?
30(2)
Where Do Graphics Come From?
32(2)
Monitor Color Settings
34(1)
Some Tips for Professional Looking Graphics
35(2)
Laying Out Web Pages
37(9)
Layout Limitations
37(3)
Page Elements
40(1)
Page Layout
41(3)
Using Color in Page Layout
44(2)
Testing, Testing, Testing
46(1)
Functional Testing
46(1)
Usability Testing
46(1)
Keep Them Coming Back
47(1)
Rich Content
47(1)
Stay Fresh
47(1)
Community
47(1)
Do It!
48(1)
2 Exploring FrontPage
49(42)
Creating a Web
50(2)
FrontPage Views
52(34)
Page View
53(27)
Other FrontPage Views
80(6)
Distributing FrontPage Webs
86(5)
Web Servers
86(1)
Publishing a Web
86(1)
FrontPage Server Extensions
87(1)
SharePoint
88(3)
3 Using Wizards
91(38)
Web Wizards
91(28)
Using the Corporate Presence Wizard
93(15)
Connecting with the Database Interface Wizard
108(6)
Working with the Discussion Web Wizard
114(3)
Using the Import Web Wizard
117(2)
Page Wizards
119(1)
Themes
119(6)
Assigning Themes to Web Sites
119(3)
Assigning Themes to Selected Web Pages
122(1)
Other Ways of Checking a Web Page Theme
122(1)
Customizing Themes
122(3)
Dynamic Web Templates and Shared Borders
125(4)
Link Bars
125(4)
4 Using Templates
129(42)
Dynamic Web Templates
129(5)
Creating the Common Areas
130(2)
Defining the Common Areas
132(1)
Attaching a Dynamic Web Template
132(1)
Detaching, Opening, and Updating Dynamic Web Templates
133(1)
Web Templates
134(18)
Using the One Page Web Site Template
135(4)
Applying the Empty Web Template
139(1)
Creating a Personal Web
140(3)
Using the Project Web Template
143(3)
Applying the Customer Support Web Site Template
146(3)
Teaming Up with the SharePoint Team Web Site
149(3)
Page Templates
152(7)
Feedback Form Template
153(1)
Confirmation Form Template
154(2)
Search Page Template
156(1)
Table of Contents Template
156(2)
Photo Gallery Template
158(1)
The Web Part Pages
158(1)
Creating Your Own FrontPage Templates
159(6)
Types of Templates
159(1)
FrontPage Folder Structure
160(1)
The INF (Setup Information) File
161(4)
Creating Page Templates
165(6)
Opening Your Custom Template
166(5)
Part II Creating Web Sites
5 Creating and Formatting a Web Page from Scratch
171(32)
Planning a Web
171(4)
What Are Your Goals?
171(1)
What Is the Content?
172(1)
How Is It Organized?
172(1)
What Will It Look Like?
173(2)
Starting a Web
175(3)
Adding and Formatting Text
178(11)
Entering the Footer
178(2)
Creating the Home Page Title
180(1)
Listing the Current Specials
181(1)
Adding the Major Categories
182(1)
Building the Title for Pages 2 and 3
183(2)
Entering the Offerings for a Major Category
185(1)
Importing the Details of an Offering
186(3)
Working with Fonts
189(1)
Obtaining and Working with Pictures
190(13)
Creating and Inserting Pictures
192(1)
Adding Horizontal Lines
193(2)
Placing Clip Art
195(2)
Adding Colored Text
197(1)
Adding a Background
197(3)
Other Techniques with Pictures
200(3)
6 Adding and Managing Hyperlinks and Hotspots
203(22)
Adding Hyperlinks to Text and Graphics
204(16)
Assigning Hyperlinks to Text
204(12)
Assigning Hyperlinks to a Graphic
216(4)
Managing Hyperlinks
220(5)
7 Using Tables and Frames
225(38)
Designing with Tables
225(21)
Displaying Tabular Data in a Table
226(15)
Building a Tabular Table
241(5)
Using Tables for Page Layout
246(6)
Using Tables with Pictures and Text
246(2)
Using a Table to Lay Out a Page
248(1)
Precision Sizing of Tables and Cells
249(3)
Laying Out with Frames
252(11)
Creating a Traditional Frames Page
253(7)
Creating an Inline Frame
260(3)
8 Working with Forms
263(22)
Using Forms
263(22)
Creating Forms with the Form Page Wizard
263(12)
Building Forms from Scratch
275(6)
Handling Form Input
281(4)
9 Using Web Components
285(32)
Incorporating Components in Your Webs
286(26)
Date and Time Component
286(2)
Comment Component
288(1)
Web Search Component
288(2)
Spreadsheets and Charts Component
290(2)
Hit Counter Component
292(2)
Photo Gallery Component
294(1)
Included Content Components
294(7)
Table of Contents Components
301(5)
Top 10 List Components
306(2)
Microsoft Site Components
308(1)
Confirmation Field Component
309(3)
Using Shared Borders
312(5)
Assigning Shared Borders to a FrontPage Web
313(1)
Assigning Shared Borders to a Web Page
314(1)
Changing Shared Borders
314(3)
10 Advanced Formatting Techniques
317(36)
Customizing Existing Themes
317(8)
Modifying a Theme
317(2)
Changing the Colors in a Theme
319(2)
Replacing the Graphics in a Theme
321(2)
Applying Different Text Styles to a Theme
323(2)
Creating and Using Style Sheets
325(7)
Creating Embedded Style Sheets
326(2)
Creating External Style Sheets
328(2)
Linking to External Style Sheets
330(1)
Using Style Sheets
331(1)
Positioning and Wrapping Text Around Objects
332(5)
Positioning Objects on a Page
332(5)
Easily Choosing Web-Safe Colors
337(4)
Creating Graphics within FrontPage
341(7)
Using AutoShapes
341(2)
Using WordArt
343(1)
Additional Layout Tools
344(4)
Customizing the Look of Tables
348(5)
11 Importing and Integrating Office and Other Files
353(26)
Importing Microsoft Office 2003 and Other Productivity Files
353(22)
Using Text from Microsoft Word and Other Word Processors
353(12)
Drag and Drop Files Into FrontPage
365(2)
Bringing Files from Other Productivity Applications
367(5)
Using Legacy Files on an Intranet
372(1)
Looking at Imported Files in a Browser
373(2)
Importing Hyperlinks
375(4)
Part III Working Behind the Scenes
12 Working with HTML
379(46)
Introducing HTML
380(23)
Using Basic Tags
381(2)
Using Color
383(1)
Setting Paragraph Styles
383(3)
Applying Character Styles
386(2)
Displaying Special Characters
388(1)
Style Sheets
389(1)
Working with Images and Image Maps
390(1)
Adding Hyperlinks and Bookmarks
391(2)
Defining Forms
393(2)
Creating Tables
395(3)
Incorporating Frames
398(3)
Using Multimedia
401(2)
Understanding FrontPage-Generated Code
403(8)
How to Look at FrontPage Code
403(5)
Looking at the HTML Example
408(1)
Looking at Your Chapter 5 Web
408(3)
Adding Capability to a FrontPage Web with HTML Code
411(10)
How to Add HTML Code to FrontPage
411(1)
Inserting HTML to Modify a Table
412(1)
Code Authoring Tools
413(8)
HTML Authoring Resources
421(4)
13 Using Dynamic HTML
425(22)
Dynamic HTML
425(22)
Event Handling
426(2)
Animating Text with DHTML
428(2)
Collapsible Lists
430(2)
Form Group Box
432(1)
Adding a Border to a Graphic
433(3)
Clickable Form Field Labels
436(1)
Page Transitions
437(1)
Positioning
437(4)
Extending DHTML in FrontPage
441(2)
Behaviors Task Pane
443(4)
14 Extensible Markup Language (XML)
447(20)
What Is XML?
447(4)
XML Data Is Highly Structured
449(1)
XML Data Describes Itself
449(1)
XML Data Is Application Independent
450(1)
XML Data Structures
451(3)
Elements
451(1)
Attributes
452(1)
Entity References
452(1)
Processing Instructions, Comments, and CDATA Sections
453(1)
Syntax
454(1)
Formatting XML
454(8)
CSS
457(2)
XSL
459(3)
Document Type Definitions (DTD)-Valid XML
462(3)
Stand-Alone Documents
462(1)
Document Type Declarations
462(2)
Entity Abbreviations
464(1)
Additional XML Resources Online
465(2)
15 Web Scripting Languages
467(22)
JavaScript
468(12)
Form Validation with JavaScript
468(6)
The JavaScript Form Validation Script
474(6)
VBScript
480(3)
The Microsoft Script Editor
483(6)
16 Active Server Pages (ASP).NET
489(26)
ASP.NET Overview
490(3)
ASP.NET Is Compiled, Not Interpreted
491(1)
ASP.NET Is Multilanguage
491(1)
ASP.NET Is Browser and Device Independent
492(1)
ASP.NET Is Control Driven
492(1)
ASP.NET Configuration and Security Models Are Portable
492(1)
The ASP.NET Application
493(1)
ASP.NET Prerequisites
493(3)
ASP.NET Web Forms
496(2)
ASP.NET Server Controls
498(6)
Web Server Controls
504(2)
Rich Controls
506(6)
ASP.NET Resources
512(3)
17 Working with Databases
515(30)
Understanding Databases on the Web
516(5)
Microsoft Access
518(1)
Microsoft SQL Server
518(1)
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
519(1)
How the Web Server Handles a Request
520(1)
Data Source Name (DSN)
520(1)
The Frontpage Database Interface Wizard
521(15)
Formatting a Database Interface Page
526(3)
Writing to a Database
529(7)
Working with SharePoint Web Parts
536(9)
The OLEDB Connection
536(1)
The SharePoint Data Source Catalog
537(3)
Adding and Formatting a Data View
540(5)
18 Activating Your Webs
545(32)
Active Browser Features
545(2)
Adding a Scrolling Marquee
546(1)
Java
547(22)
Object-Oriented Programming
548(2)
Banner Ad Manager Component
550(3)
Creating an Interactive Button
553(1)
Finding Java Applets
554(7)
The Sun Java Development Kit
561(3)
Compiling Java Applets
564(5)
ActiveX
569(8)
ActiveX and FrontPage
570(7)
Part IV Extending Your Web Site
19 Adding Multimedia to Your Web Site
577(22)
Capturing the Sound
578(6)
The Sound Source
578(1)
Connect the Sound Source to the Sound Card
578(2)
Record the Sound Digitally
580(4)
Using Nonstreaming Audio Files
584(2)
Using Standard WAV Files
584(1)
Compressing the WAV File with MP3
585(1)
Using Streaming Audio Files
586(13)
How RealAudio Works
586(3)
Creating a RealAudio File
589(5)
HTTP Streaming vs. Network Streaming
594(1)
Creating a RealAudio Metafile
594(1)
Linking to the Metafile
595(1)
Live RealAudio
596(3)
20 Security on the Web
599(32)
Security Needs
599(2)
Controlling Access
601(21)
Limiting Access to a Web Site
601(2)
Setting Permissions
603(15)
Controlling Access to a Web Server
618(4)
Limiting Access to an Intranet Site
622(1)
Securing Transmission
622(4)
Private Key Encryption
622(2)
Public Key Encryption
624(1)
Combined Public and Private Key Encryption with SSL
624(1)
Implementing SSL
625(1)
FrontPage and SSL
625(1)
Authenticating People, Servers, and Data
626(1)
What's Coming for Internet Security
627(2)
Bibliography
629(2)
21 Doing E-Commerce
631(40)
Factors Important to E-Commerce
632(6)
Security
632(3)
Payment
635(2)
Web Design Tips for a Web Store
637(1)
E-Commerce Sites Using a Form
638(28)
Building a Form-Based Store with FPSE
638(15)
Building a Form-Based Store with SharePoint 2
653(13)
Shopping Cart Stores
666(2)
E-Commerce Packages
668(2)
Low-Mid Priced E-Commerce Software
668(1)
Higher-Priced E-Commerce Software
669(1)
Marketing Your Web Store
670(1)
Keep Them Coming Back
670(1)
The E-Commerce Future
670(1)
22 Setting Up an Intranet Web Site
671(40)
What Is an Intranet?
671(2)
Why Have an Intranet?
673(1)
Communication
673(1)
Productivity
674(1)
Cost Reduction
674(1)
Employee Involvement
674(1)
What Do You Put on an Intranet?
674(1)
Conducting a Needs Analysis
674(1)
Types of Intranets
675(2)
Decentralized Intranets
676(1)
Centralized Intranets
676(1)
Getting Buy-In from Users
676(1)
Building Your Infrastructure
677(6)
Setting Up and Configuring Your Environment
677(1)
Installing TCP/IP on Your Network
677(2)
Configuring TCP/IP
679(2)
Using Your FrontPage-Created Intranet
681(2)
Security and Firewalls
683(1)
Building Your Intranet
683(13)
Overview
684(1)
Creating an Intranet
685(3)
Adding Content to Your Intranet
688(2)
Managing Content on Your Intranet
690(6)
Using a SharePoint Team Site
696(15)
Adding and Managing Members
698(3)
Adding and Managing Content
701(7)
Customizing a Team Web Site
708(3)
23 Publishing and Promoting Webs on the Internet
711(20)
Publishing Your Web Pages
711(10)
FrontPage Server Extensions
713(2)
Identifying Which Pages to Publish
715(1)
Publishing to a Server with FPSE or WSS
715(4)
Publishing to a Server Without FPSE or WS5
719(2)
Promoting Your Web Site
721(4)
Being Found by a Search Engine
721(1)
Making Your Web Search-Engine-Friendly
722(3)
Other Promotional Steps You Can Take
725(1)
Case Study: Promoting the BookBay
725(6)
Part V Appendices
A FrontPage 2003 Installation
731(14)
What You Need to Install FrontPage 2003
731(1)
Installing FrontPage 2003
732(3)
Using the Default Installation
732(2)
Performing a Custom Installation
734(1)
Connecting to the Internet
735(3)
Installing a Local Web Server
738(2)
Installing Internet Information Services
738(2)
Installing STS and FPSE
740(4)
Installing FrontPage Server Extensions by Themselves
742(2)
Installing WSS
744(1)
B FrontPage's Shortcut Keystrokes
745(6)
File Menu Keystrokes
746(1)
Edit Menu Keystrokes
746(1)
View Menu Keystrokes
746(1)
Insert Menu Keystrokes
747(1)
Format Menu Keystrokes
747(1)
Tools Menu Keystrokes
748(1)
Table Menu Keystrokes
748(1)
Help Menu Keystrokes
748(1)
Other Keystrokes
748(1)
Code View Keystrokes
749(2)
C Constructing Web Templates
751(8)
Importing the Template Files
753(1)
Copying Files to Create a Web Template
753(2)
Working with the INF and MAP Files
755(4)
Index 759

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