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Using FrontPage 98 Exercise

  
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To gain more familiarity with using FrontPage 98, you will take a group of unstructured HTML and MS Word files and organize them into a child web of only HTML pages for the ACME Industrial Products Company.  This is a fairly typical type of request a webmaster might receive -- "here are a bunch of files, and can you make me a fabulous Internet site out of them!"  Assume the site you are creating would eventually be posted on the Internet as the company's web site, and that your career hangs in the balance...

1. Copy all of the files in the FP98EX2 directory from the location provided by your instructor to your local hard disk ( c:\temp\ ). You may want to delete any files already in the c:\temp directory to avoid confusion.

2. Start FrontPage 98 and create a new "Empty Web" on your computer's Personal Web Server.

3. Import all of the .HTM, .GIF and .JPG files into your empty child web by selecting "Import..." from the FILE menu, click on the "Add File..." button in the "Import File to FrontPage Web" dialog. In the "Add File to Import" dialog, navigate to the c:\temp\ directory on your local hard drive. Select all of the .HTM files, and click on the "Open" button. Then click on the "OK" button.  The files will be imported (copied) from the c: drive into your child web.

4. To import and convert a MS Word file to an HTML file, create a new page in FrontPage Explorer. Open the new page, and select "File..." from the INSERT menu. Navigate to the the c:\temp\ directory and select one of the MS Word documents.  Repeat this process for all of the MS Word files.

5. Begin to open and examine the files. Note the similarities between the different files. You will probably want to rename the files and modify them with a consistent style (e.g., same layout, link to the home page [at least] or global navigation bar, etc.).   In addition, you should make several folders for the different types of content.

6. Lastly, you should make a root directory home page for the entire site that connects all of the content.

7. When you are done, contact an instructor for a critique of your site.  Hope you don't lose your job...

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