Microsoft^? FrontPage 2003: Savvy^TM

by Christian Crumlish; Kate J. Chase

• ISBN13: 9780782142389
• ISBN10: 0782142389
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Sybex

Summary

Savvyn. Practical know-how.FrontPage 2003 makes web development and maintenance easier than ever. At the same time, it holds more power than evermeaning that even experienced users can use some help taking advantage of everything it has to offer.Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Savvy provides that help. Using a variety of informational, corporate, and commercial sites as examples, this book walks you through the web development cycle. You'll learn how to define and meet specific site goals, make wise technical choices, overcome inevitable obstacles, and keep the site working and evolving in ways that makes all its stakeholders happy.Tutorial-based instruction gets you up and running no matter what your experience. You'll also get focused coverage of new FrontPage features, including accessibility checking and improved CSS and Sharepoint support. Continue your progress with in-depth examinations of advanced topics plus hard-to-find workarounds and shortcuts. And beautifully realized examples, both online and in the book's full-color insert, demonstrate some of the things you can achieve with FrontPage 2003. Coverage includes: Planning: workspace customization, site architecture, content acquisition, server setup, team-building. Building: page layout, graphics placement, formatting text and links, navigation design and implementation. Adding dynamic content: animation, ActiveX controls and other advanced objects, forms. Integrating applications: database connectivity, scripting, dynamic page content, search engines. Administration: back-end interface design, remote maintenance, setting up your own web server.

Author Biography

Christian Crumlish has been designing web sites since 1994. Hes currently a consultant developing web-enabled applications for Fortune 500 clients. He has authored over 15 computer books including Dreamweaver MX/Fireworks MX Savvy.

Kate Chase is an online technical manager who has lead support communities on AOL, MSN and ZDNet. Kate has authored several computer books including Instant E-Commerce and PC Disaster and Recovery. She has helped people use FrontPage to create professional sites.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xix
PART I PLANNING YOUR PROJECT AND SETTING UP FRONTPAGE	1	(102)
Chapter 1 Planning and Preparing for a Web Project	3	(20)
How FrontPage Helps You Prepare	4	(2)
Questions You Must Answer	6	(8)
Brainstorming Your Concept	14	(8)
Getting Started	22	(1)
Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Workspace	23	(20)
Getting Oriented	24	(3)
Changing the View	27	(8)
Customizing Your Workspace	35	(5)
Planning for Accessibility	40	(1)
From Page to Site	41	(2)
Chapter 3 Web Pages Deconstructed	43	(14)
The Elements of a Web Page	44	(1)
Working with Content	45	(2)
Designing for the Web	47	(5)
Setting Up a Navigation Scheme	52	(3)
Time for Groundbreaking	55	(2)
Chapter 4 Defining Your Website	57	(28)
Further Developing the Site Design	58	(2)
Setting Up Your Website	60	(7)
Dynamic Web Templates	67	(1)
Using Themes	67	(5)
Hands On: Creating Your Own Theme	72	(1)
Considering Your Navigation	73	(2)
Setting Up a Web Server	75	(9)
Going Forth From Here	84	(1)
Chapter 5 Gathering Content and
Working with a Team	85	(1)
Taking an Inventory of Content	86	(6)
Creating Reusable Web Content	92	(2)
There's No "I" in Team	94	(1)
Version Control with Check-in/Check-out	95	(3)
Teamwork with Windows SharePoint Services	98	(4)
Enough with the Planning, Already	102	(1)
PART II BUILDING A WEB PAGE	103	(192)
Chapter 6 Creating a New Web Page	105	(22)
Starting a New Web Page	106	(3)
Hands On: Building a New Page with the Help of a Wizard	109	(4)
Setting Up Your New Page	113	(4)
Applying Themes	117	(1)
Working with Style Sheets	118	(6)
Adding a Page Transition	124	(2)
Doing Page Layout	126	(1)
Chapter 7 Working Through Page Layout	127	(40)
Test, Learn, and Enjoy	128	(1)
Selecting and Fine-Tuning a Predefined Layout or Theme	129	(3)
Page Layout with Tables	132	(12)
Page Layout with Cascading Style Sheets	144	(13)
Page Layout with Frames	157	(3)
Hands On: Setting Up Frames for Your Site	160	(4)
Anchor Points or Bookmarks and the Positioning Toolbar	164	(2)
All the Text Content That's Fit to Format	166	(1)
Chapter 8 Inserting and Formatting Text	167	(34)
The Importance of Effective Formatting	168	(3)
Working with Text and Formatting	171	(17)
Working with Style	188	(1)
Hands On: Adding Style Rules and Applying Style	189	(4)
Repurposing Office Content	193	(3)
Hands On: Copying Material from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint	196	(4)
Picture It	200	(1)
Chapter 9 Working with Graphics	201	(28)
Creating Graphics	202	(4)
GIF, JPEG, and PNG File Formats	206	(1)
Inserting Graphics into a Web Page	207	(3)
Hands On: Inserting and Positioning a Picture	210	(8)
Editing Graphics	218	(7)
Creating a Photo Gallery	225	(1)
Tracing a Page Design	225	(2)
Connecting Pages	227	(2)
Chapter 10 Inserting and Maintaining Hyperlinks	229	(24)
Fundamental Concepts	230	(3)
Inserting Links	233	(7)
Creating a Bookmark	240	(1)
Using an Image as a Link	241	(1)
Creating an Image Map	242	(3)
Modifying Links	245	(1)
Controlling Hyperlink Colors and Effects	246	(2)
Managing Links	248	(4)
From Deep Structure to Interface	252	(1)
Chapter 11 Implementing Your J Navigation Scheme	253	(24)
Navigation Savvy	254	(2)
Using Navigation View	256	(4)
Major Navigation Scheme Tools	260	(3)
FrontPage Navigation: Go it Alone or Improvise?	263	(1)
Creating Navigation/Link Bars	263	(2)
Creating Navigation Menus	265	(5)
Troubleshooting Your Navigation	270	(1)
Creating DHTML Navigation Menus	271	(1)
Inserting Menus	272	(1)
Leaving Breadcrumbs	273	(2)
From the Static to the Dynamic	275	(2)
Chapter 12 Working with Dynamic Web Templates	277	(18)
About Dynamic Web Templates	278	(4)
Creating a Dynamic Web Template	282	(1)
Hands On: Designing a Dynamic Web Template	282	(7)
Applying the Dynamic Web Template	289	(4)
Modifying a Dynamic Web Template	293	(1)
Getting More Dynamic With Your Site	294	(1)
PART III ADDING DYNAMIC CONTENT	295	(72)
Chapter 13 Adding Animation and Multimedia	297	(20)
Creating Image Rollovers	298	(6)
Creating Animated GIF Files	304	(1)
Rules of the Road for Web Animation	305	(1)
Hands On: Creating an Animated GIF	306	(3)
Adding Other Media to Your Site	309	(1)
Using Multimedia Add-ins	310	(4)
Inserting Other Types of Dynamic Content	314	(2)
Man Those Controls!	316	(1)
Chapter 14 Inserting ActiveX Controls and Other Advanced Objects	317	(20)
Consider Your Audience	318	(1)
ActiveX Controls	318	(6)
Hands On: Using ActiveX Controls/Office Web Components to Add a Web-Based Spreadsheet	324	(2)
Other Advanced Controls	326	(8)
Testing and Troubleshooting Controls and Objects	334	(1)
Taking Up a (Data) Collection	335	(2)
Chapter 15 Building Forms	337	(30)
Data Collection vs. Navigation	338	(1)
How Forms Work	338	(2)
Planning Your Forms	340	(2)
Anatomy of a Web Form	342	(12)
Creating a Form	354	(5)
Hands On: Creating a Jump Menu	359	(3)
Handling Forms at the Back End	362	(3)
Next Stop, Faster Scripting	365	(2)
PART IV DEVELOPING WEB APPLICATIONS	367	(132)
Chapter 16 An Overview of Database-Backed Sites	369	(28)
An Introduction to Database-Backed Sites	370	(1)
Designing and Testing Web Applications	371	(1)
Choosing an Application Server Model and Scripting Language	372	(1)
Setting Up an Application Server	373	(4)
Working with ASP, ASP.NET, JScript, and VBScript	377	(7)
Working with XML	384	(11)
Right Down to the Code	395	(2)
Chapter 17 Working Directly with Markup and Scripts	397	(30)
Working with Added HTML	398	(7)
Using Code Snippets to Store Repeated Code Blocks	405	(5)
Using Microsoft Visual Basic Editor	410	(3)
Adding VBScript, JavaScript, and JScript	413	(12)
Troubleshooting Scripts and Markup	425	(1)
Give Us Your Data	426	(1)
Chapter 18 Developing Data-Driven Websites	427	(34)
Working with Databases	428	(2)
Preparing a Database	430	(3)
How FrontPage Views Data	433	(1)
Defining a Data Source	434	(1)
Working with Data Connections	435	(10)
Working with SharePoint Data Views	445	(6)
Working with Web Parts	451	(2)
Hands On: Combining Data Views	453	(1)
Troubleshooting Database Connections	454	(2)
Working Directly with SQL	456	(3)
Bells and Whistles	459	(2)
Chapter 19 Adding Automatic Web Components	461	(20)
Using Office Web Components	462	(3)
Adding Office Web Components to Your Site	465	(7)
Hands On: Creating a Web-Based Interactive Spreadsheet	472	(2)
Connecting to Web Services Using NET	474	(2)
FrontPage Automatic Web Content Components	476	(2)
Up for Discussion	478	(3)
Chapter 20 Promoting Community with Discussions	481	(18)
Defining Discussions	482	(1)
Setting Up a Discussion	483	(13)
Managing Your Discussions	496	(2)
Empowering a Living Site	498	(1)
PART V SITE ADMINISTRATION FROM START TO FINISH	499	(74)
Chapter 21 Setting Up the Back-End Interface	501	(30)
Establishing User Administration	502	(12)
About Login Pages and Processes	514	(15)
Spare Yourself the (Web) Winter of Dis-Content	529	(2)
Chapter 22 Enabling Content Management	531	(14)
Defining a Content-Management Strategy	532	(3)
Content Updates with Dynamic Web Templates	535	(1)
There are Templates. .. and Templates	535	(1)
Integrating a Weblog	536	(3)
Choosing a Weblog Tool	539	(2)
Working with Weblog Templates	541	(1)
Hands On: Adding a SharePoint Weblog to Your Site	542	(1)
Last-Minute Checklist	543	(2)
Chapter 23 Going Live	545	(14)
Checking Browser Compatibility	546	(6)
Meeting Accessibility Standards	552	(3)
Quality Assurance and Final Testing	555	(1)
Turnover: From Staging to Production	556	(2)
The Long Haul	558	(1)
Chapter 24 Maintaining and Administering a Site	559	(14)
Making Updates and Corrections	560	(2)
Hands On: Creating and Revising a Site Map	562	(3)
Managing Users	565	(1)
Journalmg, Site Versioning, and Rollback	566	(1)
Handing the Product Off to a Client	567	(3)
Tracking Site Activity	570	(2)
Go Forth	572	(1)
Appendix A Installing a Web Server	573	(20)
Do You Need a Web Server?	574	(2)
Internet Information Services	576	(7)
Running Windows SharePoint Services	583	(10)
Appendix B Online Resources	593	(12)
General Resources	594	(3)
Microsoft Frontpage Websites	597	(1)
Website Planning Information	597	(1)
Web Accessibility Resources	598	(1)
Design and Layout Resources	598	(1)
Web Development and Applications Resources	599	(2)
Resources for Developing Data Backed Sites	601	(1)
Content-Management Resources	602	(1)
Website Administration Resources	603	(2)
Index	605