MS FrontPage 2000 Tutorial 

Once you create a new page, you can save it into your FrontPage Web by clicking

FILE à Save As…

The Save As screen shows the folders within your FrontPage Web. To save your page INTO a subfolder, you must double click on the folder so that the view changes to show the contents of that subfolder. If you just click once on the folder name, so that it is highlighted, you will be saving into the main folder, not into the selected subfolder.

You also have the option to save your work to a local folder, your Desktop, the My Documents folder or even to another Web site folder (you will have to provide a user ID and password to do so).

Below the view of folders there are three lines you can change: 

Page Title: this is the "user friendly" title of your page that will appear in the top, colored bar of the browser window. Your page title should be descriptive and meaningful. I.e.: Camden County University Outreach and Extension Center. If you have not already changed it, the title will be new_page1 or something like that. It's important to change it to something meaningful. Just click "Change" and type a new title.

File name: this is the actual name of your file and will be part of the "web address" or URL for your page. It is important to choose your file name carefully.

Save as type: This determines the suffix for your filename and also the format in which it will be saved. Normally you will choose either .htm or .html for web pages. Both of these are the same and you can use either one. It's a good idea to use one or the other consistently throughout your site.

Important tips for naming your web page files

• Keep it as short as possible while still being meaningful and unique. If you will be sending users to a specific page within your site, they may have to type the whole address in from a printed reference, so it's a courtesy to keep it short.
  
• Don't use spaces in file or folder names. Spaces can really confuse some browsers and often get converted to "%70" in URLs. It can be confusing to a user and may even prevent them from getting to your pages. Use a dash or underscore character as a separator if needed.
  
• Use lowercase letters for consistency.
  
• Web page files must end in .htm or .html. the endings are interchangeable, but only these endings tell the Web browser that the file is a Web page. If you named your file mypage.web, for example, Netscape would not know what type of file it is and would give the user a message asking what to do with the file. It's good practice to be consistent, either using .html or .htm throughout your site.
  
• The main page in your web site and the main page in each subfolder should be named index.html or index.htm. When someone types a URL into their browser that ends with a directory name (i.e. http://outreach.missouri.edu/boone/) the browser automatically looks to see if there is an index page in the directory. If there is, it displays that page. If not, it just shows the user a directory listing of files, and they have to guess which page is the main one. It's much better if they automatically get the first page.

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Kate Akers, kate@oseda.missouri.edu Webmaster, University Outreach and Extension Last modified: 08/27/02