Using Frontpage

What two steps are recommended in planning your site?

Establish the goal of the site first:

tips for creating a goal for your site:

• Make sure you know who your audience is. For example, is your site intended for customers? employees? students? friends? family?
• If you are making a site for your company, make sure the goal is specific and quantitative. After all, your boss will want to see results, and that usually means a specific dollar amount gained or number of labor hours saved.
• Keep your goal simple. A couple of sentences or a short paragraph is enough. If your goal is too long, your site will end up looking like it's trying to do too much.

Sketching out a structure before creating a site in FrontPage and after you've sketched a map of your site, it's time to start sketching a common layout for each of your pages.

What is a web server?

A Web server is a computer that runs special serving software. That software "serves" HTML pages and associated files when requested by a client, such as a Web browser.

How do you put your website on a web server?

To put your site on a Web server, you publish it.Publishing generally means copying all of the files to a remote location on a server. In most cases, the remote location is either an HTTP path or an FTP path. The path you use depends on what technologies your server supports.

A server running FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Services    If your Web server is running one of these technologies, you would publish your site to an HTTP location.

A server supporting FTP    FTP (the File Transfer Protocol) is another popular way to upload files to a remote server. If your server supports FTP, you would publish to an FTP location.A server supporting

WebDAV    Although not as common as the methods above, your server may support WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning). If this is the case, you would publish your site to an HTTP location.

FrontPage has two key functions – website design and …..?

Management tool

What are some commonly used file names for Home Pages accepted by servers?

html

What is FrontPage Metadata and which two folders contain these files?

FrontPage metadata is information about your FrontPage Web site that makes managing the site possible. The _vti_cnf folder contains information about every file, such as which links are within the file and who modified the file and when. The _vti_pvt folder stores all of the configuration information for the site.

There are two basic types of website can you create in FrontPage; what are they and how do they differ?

 a disk-based site is a FrontPage Web site you create on your local hard disk and then later publish to a Web server. A server-based site is one you create and work with directly on a Web server, without the extra step of publishing.