Instructions for Updating Webpages on a Frontpage Webserver

 

www.educ.ttu.edu/portfolio

Last updated Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:07 PM by Wesley Fryer

Before starting, make sure:

  1. You have your Eraider or TLTC Frontpage account information (web address, userid, password)
  2. Frontpage is installed on your computer. If you do not have it, TTU students/faculty/staff can either:
    1. Download a copy from www.eraider.ttu.edu
    2. Purchase a copy for $5 from High Tech Computer Store in the UC basement

OPEN YOUR WEB IN FRONTPAGE:

From the FILE menu, choose OPEN WEB:

Type the full address of your eRaider or TLTC website:

htttp://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/userid

This will create a new "web folder" on your computer which you can open subsequently instead of typing this complate address again. You will always be required to enter your userid and password to open the site, however. DO NOT click the checkbox to "Remember My Password" if you are using a lab or other public use computer. That would allow other computer users to access your website and alter content.

Start with a TEMPLATE website

If desired, students can Download a set of webpage template files: www.educ.ttu.edu/portfolio/template.zip

  1. Download / save this file to your desktop.
  2. Double click the file. If Winzip or another file expansion utility is installed on your computer (it should be), it should open this compressed / zip file and show the contents. Click EXTRACT and choose to copy the entire folder to your MY DOCUMENTS folder.
  3. Close Winzip.
  4. Open My Documents, and right click the folder you just extracted (it is named PORTFOLIO.) Choose COPY.
  5. With your website open in Frontpage, right click in the Folder List and choose PASTE. A new folder on your website should be created (named "portfolio") containing several template files, which you can now edit as desired.

TO EDIT A PAGE ON YOUR WEB IN FRONTPAGE:

1-    Double click the file you want:  

2-    It should open within Frontpage.

TO ADD TEXT TO A PAGE:

1-    After the page is open, add text to the page like you would in a word processor.

2-    Numbered lists and bulleted lists are added like they are in a word processor.

3-    Text alignment to the center, right ,and left is changed the same.

TO ADD GRAPHICS TO A PAGE:

1-    Copy the graphic from a webpage IN INTERNET EXPLORER (not Netscape) by right clicking the graphic and choosing COPY.

2-    In Frontpage, click where you want the graphic to be inserted.

3-    Choose EDIT ­ PASTE (or right click and choose PASTE)

4-    Choose FILE SAVE to save the webpage. Frontpage will automatically prompt you with a saving dialog box for the unsaved images on the page (because on a webpage, images are saved SEPERATELY from the HTML pages). On this dialog box, click CHANGE FOLER:

5-    Click on the IMAGES folder and click OK to set this as the location:

6-    Change the file name if desired (NO SPACES OR SPECIAL CHARACTERS, DON’T CHANGE THE FILE EXTENTION: .gif or .jpg).

7-    Click OK to save the image file.

8-    The webpage (HTML file) will be saved with the same filename and in the same location as before.

TO  ADD A RELATIVE LINK ON A PAGE (a link to another page on YOUR WEBSITE):

  1. Type the text or insert a graphic you want to make into a relative link.
  2. CLICK ONCE on the graphic, or highlight the text that will be a link.
  3. Click once on the hyperlink tool:
  4. Click on the page you want to link to.
  5. Click OK to make the link.

TO  ADD AN ABSOLUTE LINK ON A PAGE (a link to a page on ANOTHER website):

  1. In your web browser, copy the complete web address you want to insert on your page. (Highlight the address in the address bar, then choose EDIT/COPY)
  2. Switch from your web browser into Frontpage.
  3. Type the text or insert a graphic you want to make into a relative link.
  4. CLICK ONCE on the graphic, or highlight the text that will be a link.
  5. Click once on the hyperlink tool:
  6. Beside URL, paste the complete web address you copied in step 1. (EDIT/PASTE)
  7. Click OK to make the link.

 

To Save a Word Processing File (Word or WordPerfect) to your website as HTML:

NOTE: Do these steps BEFORE you OPEN YOUR WEB in Frontpage. Otherwise Frontpage will not recognize the new files you have added to your site.

1-    Open the document in your word processor.

2-    Click on the pull-down menu File

3-    In MS Word 97, click "Save as HTML"

4-    In MS Word 2000, click "Save as Web Page"

5-    In the dialog window, click on the DOWN ARROW and navigate to WEB FOLDERS and your WEB FOLDER:

6-    Enter a name for the file. DO NOT USE ANY SPACES OR SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN THE NAME. The file extension ‘.htm’ will be automatically added to the page name.

7-    Click SAVE.

8-    Repeat to save all the files you want to add to your website.

 

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