frontpage express tutorial inserting background

Frontpage Express tutorial to insert background, image and text.

Frontpage Express Tutorial
This tutorial shows how to insert background
insert an image and insert text with the Frontpage Express program

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Frontpage Express Tutorial

Inserting a background. Inserting an image, Inserting text.

Frontpage is an easy program to make web pages with. All you need are the basics and you will be making professional pages in no time at all. *smiles* Follow these steps in your Frontpage program and make a page with me.

Let's begin. Open your Frontpage program.

Inserting the background

The start of any webpage begins with the background color or image. This page background is white.
Your background color should be the default, grey.
Let's make yours the same as mine.

1. On the uppermost tool bar click on format.

2. Next, scroll down and click on "background". A popup box will appear.

3. To the left of the first dropdown menu is background. Click on the dropdown menu and choose white from the color list.

4. Click ok and you now have a white background.

Inserting a background image.

1. On the uppermost tool bar click on "Format.
2. Next, scroll down and click on "image". A popup box will appear.
3. This time check "background image."
4. Click "Browse" and from the popup window check "From File" and click "Browse"
in this box.
5. Find the folder that your background image is in and click on the file.
6. Click "Open".
7. You are now returned to the first popup window. "Click ok". Your background
image is now on your page.

Inserting a header banner.

Most webpages open with some kind of banner at the top of the page. At the top I have
my banner. You may choose to have an image that says Welcome or something else,
but the steps are the same in all situations.

1. Click inside the page where you want your image to appear. For this tutorial click up
ear the top of the page.
2. You can position the image either "left", "center" or "right", by clicking on the 3 boxes
in the 2nd row of toolbars, to the right of the artists palette.
(See toolbar image below. This image is "left".)

1. From the top toolbar, select "insert".
2. From the dropdown menu select "image".
3. From the popup window, check "file" and click "browse".
4. Find the folder that your background image is in and click on the file.
5. Click, "open" and click "ok". Image is now on page.

You now can insert a background and an image.
Well done. *smiles*

Inserting Text.

(Hint. The second row of the toolbar contains all the text functions.)

1. Position your cursor where you want your text to appear and type anything you like.
2. You can have your text left, center or right by following the same steps as for image above.
3. Change your text style by choosing from the drop down menu where it says "Times New Roman".
4. You can increase the size of the text by highlighting a selection of text and clicking
the capital "A"
5. Decrease the size of the text as above but clicing the small "A".
6. Highlight your text and make it bold (click "B") make it ITALICS (click "I")
or underline ("click "U").
7. To color your text, highlight the selected text, click on the color palette, select color,
click ok.
8. To delete text, highlight a selection and hit the delete button on your keyboard.
9. Sorry, There is no spell checker. :-(

With the above steps you can make a basic webpage.
Let us now save this page.

Saving Pages.

1. Make a new folder on your hard drive to save your files.
(To make a new folder click "Start", (left bottom of screen)
"Programs", "Accessories", "Windows Explorer".
Click "File", (top left of screen) "New", "Folder", at the bottom of your files you will
now notice "new folder" highlighted.
Hit your delete key and type in a name of your choice. This is where you will save
your pages. (Close windows explorer.)
2. Select "file" in Frontpage. (Top left of screen)
3. Select "save as"
4. Name your page (page title) and click "as file".

5. Select your new folder at "save in".
6. Type in your file "name.html" (Note; You are saving a html document that can
be viewed in a browser.)
7. press "save"