Creating a Class Web Site

OBJECTIVE - to design an educational web page using Microsoft Front Page

MATERIALS - Microsoft Front Page 2000

            ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -

                              - Clip Art ( from the Clip Art Gallery or from Clip Art On-line.

                              - Scanner

                              - Digital Camera

PROCEDURES - steps needed in building a successful website.

• Make an outline of your website

• Decide what you want on your front page.  Your front page will be called index.htm.

• Create a new file called a Web.

• Search the Clip Art file in the gallery or on the Internet.  Save the Clip Art to this Web.  Be sure to save the Clip Art, Photos to the same drive that you are building your Web.

• Some of the Clip Art that you will want are the following: Backgrounds, Page Banners, Background Sounds, Clip Art figures and Photos, and Animated Clip Art.

• Start with your Index.  After opening the Front Page program, click on the file button.  Click on New and then Page.  You now have a blank Web page.  Right click on the mouse and then click on page properties.  On the first screen you can enter your page title and background sounds.  On the second screen you can enter your page background.  It helps to show some continuity by using the same or similar backgrounds and sounds.

• It is now a good time to place the banner at the top of the page.  Click on Insert, picture, and then Clip Art or File.  The banner size can then be stretched to fit your page by first clicking on the banner and then pulling the corners as needed.

• The page background, the background sounds and the page banner could also be entered through the HTML code.

• Before you enter any text, or photos, or marquees to the page, it is good time to copy the page to your next page.  First click on File, then on Save As, then save the original page.  Then repeat the procedure to save the page template you have made to page two of your Web.

• You can enter text the same as in Microsoft Word.  You can personalize your web, by choosing the font style of your choice.  You should choose one that is easy to read on screen and does not fade out in your page background.  You can also select the text color of your choice.

• Besides normal text, a message can be placed by means of a scrolling marquee.

Use the mouse to left click on Insert.  From the dropdown menu that appears, left click component.  From the component list click on Marquee.  A box will appear and you can enter the text and color of the background for the scroll.  You can click on the fnished marquee and change the font, or text color from the format box.

• The next think is to begin to link the pages together.  This procedure is called Hyperlink.  Click on the Insert box, click on Hyperlink.  Select the name of the page that you want to link.  It will then appear in the URL: box, or if you know the exact page name you can type it into the URL: line.  Then click OK and you have linked the two web pages.

• At the bottom of each page you should have Hyperlinks to go back to the previous page, to go to the home page or go to the next page.  See below.

EVALUATION - Web site rubric

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