In need of some help with Frongtpage

[MC Webster]

Hey everyone, I am looking to design my first webpage and I could use some help. I have Microsoft Frontpage, but I am not very familiar with how to use it.

Are there any tutorials in the program that could help me out? If not, is there any help on the web that could help me in designing a web page with Frontpage?

Thanks for your help!

 

[jonmullen]

Tip -

If your serious about learning HTML or making webpages don't even bother with FrontPage. Try Dreamweaver or if your really patient just use notepad. But by all means try to stay away from FrontPage.

 

[Redviffer]

But if your going to use FrontPage, it comes with a lot of templates that should get you started. Then it's just a matter of doing things "visually" (i.e. drag and drop). FWIW, my workplace uses FrontPage as a standard, so I don't have much of a choice. I originally learned by using Netscape Compose, but Dreamweaver is by far the best.

 

[Workin']

Frontpage comes with it's own tutorial...

 

[MC Webster]

Where do I find the tutorial in Frontpage?

ie - What menu prompts do I follow to view the tutorial?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Noooo!

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

 

[Workin']

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Where do I find the tutorial in Frontpage?

Mine was on the original CD and had to be run separately. The book told how to run it (I have a full retail copy).

Here's a bunch of stuff from Microsoft's web site.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Workin'

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Know of any place I can look at it?

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Workin'

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Know of any place I can look at it?

Googled

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Workin'

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Know of any place I can look at it?

Googled

Cool, not that bad. No doctype, but that's about the only horrible thing I see in it (and it could be ALOT worse...like old frontpage html 🙂)

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Workin'

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Know of any place I can look at it?

Googled

Cool, not that bad. No doctype, but that's about the only horrible thing I see in it (and it could be ALOT worse...like old frontpage html 🙂)

See, frontpage isn't that bad 😉

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Workin'

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Know of any place I can look at it?

Googled

Cool, not that bad. No doctype, but that's about the only horrible thing I see in it (and it could be ALOT worse...like old frontpage html 🙂)

See, frontpage isn't that bad 😉

My main problem wasn't with frontpage itself, just the html it spits out. The stuff I usually see from frontpage is just sacreligious, tags for markup that only work in IE, etc.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Workin'

Please, do the web a favor and don't use frontpage.

Quit talking out of your posterior, Frontpage XP/2002 makes perfectly fine HTML.

Know of any place I can look at it?

Googled

Cool, not that bad. No doctype, but that's about the only horrible thing I see in it (and it could be ALOT worse...like old frontpage html 🙂)

See, frontpage isn't that bad 😉

My main problem wasn't with frontpage itself, just the html it spits out. The stuff I usually see from frontpage is just sacreligious, tags for markup that only work in IE, etc.

If I'm not mistaken, it can still make those if you don't set the compatibility options. Other than that, frontpage is a nice WYSIWYG html editor.

 

[Workin']

Hehe, I use Frontpage to manage some moderately large sites, complete with scripting and databases and all that good stuff. I've found that Frontpage makes decent HTML, makes creating complex tables a breeze, and also isn't too bad at a lot of other things. That said, I also always go back over the markup just to make sure, plus to add my own tweaks when necessary.

Frontpage prior to the 2000 version was a POS, and that is why a lot of people are against it. But FP 2000 and 2002 are actually pretty good. Dreamweaver is too complex and expensive! for mid-size and smaller sites, and using notepad or vi for more than a few pages is the mark of a masochist 😉

 

[MC Webster]

How do I access the Frontpage tutorial on the Office XP cd?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Workin'
and using notepad or vi for more than a few pages is the mark of a masochist 😉

Using notepad for anything is masochist, using vi is an indicator of wisdom 😉

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: MC Webster
How do I access the Frontpage tutorial on the Office XP cd?

You may not have it - It was on my full-copy retail Frontpage CD, but it is not on my OEM Office XP CD.

Did you try that link I gave you? It seemed to address almost anything you might want to do.

 

[MC Webster]

Yeah, I did look at the link, thank you.

I am just hoping I could find a tutorial that would sorta take me through the steps of creating a web page in Frontpage.