FrontPage Resources Tutorials

What Kinds of Microsoft Front Page Resources Tutorials are There?

The Basics of Web Page Design

Web design is not a simple skill. One of the beauties of FrontPage is that it can be simple enough that, quite literally, even a child can do it. In fact, at the FrontPage 2000 in the Classroom website, there are tutorials and teachers guides to do just that. The skills taught in this illustrated tutorial include

• Adding hyperlinks
• Creating tables
• Simple database interaction
• Web-based forms
• Theme selection
• Adding text and images

All of these are skills that any web designer would want to have, but if the simplistic, child-oriented site is too unprofessional, there are also sites such as The Web Work Site that offers more specific and advanced tutorials, such as

• Discussion forums – Creating threaded discussion bulletin boards with FrontPage
• Hidden hit counter – To get a good idea of the number of visitors to your page
• Collapsible lists – Making site navigation more professional with linked drop-down lists
• Insert Flash into FP – Inserting, editing and positioning Adobe Flash movies into FrontPage documents

These are only a few examples of web-page specific skills that are available at sites like Web Work. There are also more community-based resources such as Access FP, which announces on the front page "We find FrontPage Resources so YOU don't have to!" This certainly includes Microsoft FrontPage Resources tutorials, sometimes created by users just like you. Often they are humorously named ("Cleaning Up Your FrontPage Code!" for example) but they are also very useful and may be explained in a way more intuitive than corporate-driven sites.

Publishing Your Web Page

Microsoft FrontPage is not just a web page editor, it is also a website management tool. It can be used not only to create and maintain the web pages but also to interact with the server to upload files, maintain FTP directories, and perform other site management tasks.

This is where the mother of all Microsoft FrontPage Resources Tutorials comes in: the Microsoft website itself. Frontpage is considered to be a part of the Microsoft Office suite of the products, and the tutorials in both visual, text, and audio are extensive.

For example, in the tutorial entitled "How to Publish Web Sites with FTP," it has very clear objectives. By the end of the lesson, you can:

• Make an informed decision about using FTP or some other method to publish your site.
• Acquire the necessary information to publish
• Actually upload your site to the server via FTP

The tutorial also includes a short test at the end to evaluate your knowledge and also provides a small "cheat sheet" note card to help out in future publishing.

And all of this is free on the Microsoft site. They have enough information to completely educate novice designers in the skills of logical site organization, user-based site navigation, and more. It also has a section on Great FrontPage Features that covers a wide range of site-management tools such as sitewide find-and-replace, embedded web pages, and dyname content.

A Web Full of Resources

Since FrontPage has been around since the early days of the internet, there are a wide variety of sites dedicated to FrontPage resources tutorials. It is important that whatever tutorial you use is appropriate for the version of FrontPage you currently own, as there is a lot of obsolete content out there. But with these links as a starting place, learning the ropes of this web design program is not hard at all.