To minimize the size of picture files, you can also use special programs that remove from them non-graphic information placed by graphic editors when developing and saving a picture. For example, the author of these lines uses the Advanced GIF Optimizer program from Gold Software. Using optimizers can often reduce the size of a GIF file by another 10-60%.

To speed up loading of a picture, you can cut it into separate parts and then place these parts on pages in different table cells. When viewed in the browser, a pieced-up drawing appears the same as a non-fragmented drawing. The advantage of fragmentation is that images, like other page elements, are loaded into the browser in parallel, which helps speed up page loading. In addition, the fully loaded fragment immediately appears in the browser, which allows you to create the illusion that the picture will load quickly. Coupled with the ability to transfer GIF and JPEG pictures and editing resources, you can achieve a noticeable acceleration in the loading of pictures on pages.

These pages are the first to be used for the Netscape Navigator browser. One such page represents a set of independent frame windows in the browser, which makes it possible to expand the capabilities for simultaneously displaying individual pages or different parts of a page, in particular, allowing them to scroll independently. Each frame is represented by a separate file, and another file is used to describe the way frames are displayed in the browser, which is a frame file. Each frame is a Web page and can be viewed as a separate page in one window.

In Fig. Figure 17 shows a Web page that allows you to navigate through pages displaying electronic teaching materials of the department.

The page is organized in the form of a menu and consists of three frames

The described method of organization allows you to create, in a user-friendly form, an arbitrarily long list of disciplines and specialties in the left frame and an arbitrarily long list of materials for each specialty or discipline for display in the right frame. In this case, in the list of the right frame you can always see the contents of the selected position from the list of the left frame.

When designing a frame page, the following pages were first created individually:

• header.htm – page that will represent the header of the frame page;
• menu.htm – page for displaying the menu in the left frame;
• informatique.htm – page for displaying a list of teaching materials for the discipline Computer science;
• certificate.htm – page for displaying a list of teaching materials in the specialty Certification;
• tms_metod.htm – the actual frame page.

To create the last page, a new file is organized using the menu File /

The window of the new frames web page (Fig. 19) will be divided into parts in accordance with the selected structure.

9. Example of developing a Web page

Rice. 20. View of a Web page in a browser

The view of the marked up page in the FP editor is shown in Fig. 21. First, a new page is created. Next, by right-clicking the mouse, a context menu is called up, in which the line is clicked Page properties. In the page properties window that appears (Fig. 3), its title is entered History of the TMS department. On the bookmark Other Each of the page border indentation options has a check mark and their values ​​are set to zero. This means that when read into the browser, the page should be displayed without any padding from the top and left borders of the viewport. By clicking the button Save the page is saved to disk under the name history.htm.

Next, using the insert table command, a table of four columns and four rows is placed on the page. In the cells of the top row, three pictures h1.gif, h2.gif, h3.gif are placed sequentially from left to right (the pictures were previously designed in the Photo Shop graphic editor). The first drawing (KSTU) has a size of 4 K, the second (TMS) - 3.6 K, the last - 1.4 K. All drawings are inscriptions made on a burgundy background. The last figure (with the inscription HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY) is made smaller in width in order to reduce memory.

Rice. 21. View of a marked up Web page in the FP editor

Chapter 9 FrontPage Program

Why FrontPage?

In the first chapters of this textbook, you became familiar with the basic capabilities of the Internet. While traveling through it, you, of course, noticed that you can find a variety of information there. Many newspapers and magazines post the latest news on their Web sites. Thousands of companies have their own Web pages where you can learn about the products and services they offer. Using the Internet, you will receive not only reference information, but also be able to place an order for the purchase of goods.

As the Internet actively enters our lives, new specialties are appearing on the labor market - the development and design of Web pages. Thanks to the FrontPage program, not only professional programmers can now create Web pages, but also users who want to have a Web site for personal purposes, since there is no need to program in HTML codes and know HTML editors.

FrontPage 2002, included with Microsoft Office XP, is designed for creating Web pages and Web sites. Using toolbars and menu commands, you can place text and graphic information, navigation bars, and links on a page to move from one page to another. In addition, you can use tables, frames, tickers, animation and much more to design a Web page. You can use templates and wizards to speed up the development of Web pages and sites. FrontPage allows you to use material in your Web site that was prepared in other software products included in Microsoft Office, such as Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.

The Web site developer is faced with the question of what tools can quickly and efficiently complete the task. There are currently two types of editors that create Web sites. These are editors that work directly with code and visual editors. Both technologies have pros and cons. When creating Web sites using code editors, the developer needs to know the HTML language. Working in a visual editor, which includes FrontPage, is quite simple and resembles the process of creating a document in Microsoft Word. You can see how a page created using FrontPage will look when viewed in a browser without leaving the editor.

According to some sources on the world Internet, up to 50% of all pages and Web sites, including large projects, are created using Microsoft FrontPage. And in the CIS, it is quite possible that this figure reaches 80-90%.

The advantages of FrontPage over other editors are obvious:

• FrontPage has strong web support. There are many Web sites, newsgroups, and conferences aimed at FrontPage users. There are also a lot of paid and free plug-ins for FrontPage that expand its capabilities. For example, the best graphics optimizers today, Ulead SmartSaver and Ulead SmartSaver Pro from Ulead, are built into plugins not only in Photoshop, but also in FrontPage. In addition, there is a whole industry of companies developing and releasing themes for FrontPage.
• FrontPage's interface is similar to that of programs included in Microsoft Office, making it easy to learn. In addition, there is complete integration between the programs included in Microsoft Office, which allows you to use information created in other applications in FrontPage.

Comment

The main complaint that developers who create Web pages using HTML code have about FrontPage is that in some cases it writes redundant code by default. For small Web sites this is not critical. In addition, FrontPage allows the developer to work with HTML code if desired.

Difference between FrontPage 2002 and FrontPage 2000

FrontPage is quite young. Information about the first version of the visual editor FrontPage 1.0 appeared on the Web site of the small company Vermeer on the Internet at the end of 1995. The product contained many advanced solutions at that time. Six months later, the company was purchased by Microsoft Corporation. Already in the first three months, about 150,000 copies of the package were sold under the Microsoft brand. In the spring of 1996, the next version of the package was released - FrontPage 1.1, and by the summer of 1996 it had risen to third place in sales in the United States, ahead of even Microsoft Office itself. Further versions of FrontPage appear one after another, and it confidently takes the position of the world leader among visual development tools for the Internet. In 2000, FrontPage 2000 was released, which had significant differences from previous versions. And here is a new version of the product - FrontPage 2002.

• New panels have appeared in FrontPage:
• The Clipboard panel allows you to simultaneously store up to 24 pieces of data on the clipboard while preserving the formatting elements used.
• The New Page or Web panel is designed to create new pages and Web sites, and also contains links to the most recently opened pages, templates, and wizards.
• The Insert Clip Art panel is designed for working with Clip Art gallery objects.

FrontPage includes new wizards and templates for creating pages and Web sites. Using the Database Interface Wizard, you create a Web site associated with a database in which you can view records, add new ones, and delete existing ones. The Photo Gallery page template allows you to easily create a photo gallery, and also use the properties window to edit graphic elements located on the page.

• Tools have appeared that allow you to create a link panel without using the Web site structure based on a list of links included in the panel.
• The list of reports on the Web site has been expanded. Now you can generate a report using both the Reporting toolbar and menu commands. FrontPage allows you to generate reports on visits to your Web site, browsers used by visitors, the most visited pages, as well as reports with summary information by day, week, month, etc.
• Added advanced text design tools using WordArt.
• It is now possible to publish a separate Web page. To do this, just select a file in the Folder List panel and execute the context menu command Publish Selected Files.
• New table formatting tools have appeared:
• Copy the information contained in a cell into the table cells highlighted below or to the right using the Fill Down and Fill Right buttons on the Tables toolbar.
• Automatically formats tables according to predefined formats. In FrontPage, you can open multiple Web pages at once and navigate between them using the tabs that appear at the top of the work area.
• The number of languages ​​supported by the program has increased to 26. Now, when developing a Web page, you can use Unicode encoding.

Launching FrontPage

You are getting started with FrontPage. Much of what you will have to work with (menus, toolbars, dialog boxes) will seem familiar if you have worked in the Windows environment.

To launch FrontPage, follow these steps:

1. Click the Start button.

2. Select the Programs command from the main menu that opens. A menu for this command will appear.

3. Run the Microsoft FrontPage command (Fig. 9.1). FrontPage will start and its main window will open on the screen.
(Fig. 9.2).

Rice. 9.1. Launching Microsoft FrontPage

Comment

To make it easier to launch FrontPage, you can create a shortcut on the Windows Desktop. You can even set the boot mode to FrontPage when Windows starts. To do this, you need to create a shortcut for the program and place it in the Startup folder.

Main window

In Fig. Figure 9.2 shows the main Microsoft FrontPage window as you will see it after launching the program. It contains the title, menu, toolbars, operating modes bar and the program work area. Let's look at the purpose of the main window elements.

Rice. 9.2. FrontPage main window

Heading

The main window header contains three objects: a small copy of the program icon, the name of the Microsoft FrontPage program, and buttons for controlling the size of the window. After left-clicking on the program icon, a control menu opens, containing commands for moving and resizing the main window (Table 9.1).

Table 9.1. Control menu commands

On the right side of the header there are buttons for controlling the main program window:

Standard FrontPage Toolbar

FrontPage has a wide variety of toolbars, containing a set of buttons that depends on the purpose of this panel.

If you switch to any operating mode, the necessary toolbar appears in the main program window. For example, when you switch to the mode of viewing and creating reports on a Web site, the Reporting panel is loaded, and when working with graphic images, the Pictures panel is loaded. If the toolbar is not on the screen, to display it, use the Toolbars command from the View menu. When selected, a menu appears containing a list of all FrontPage program panels, presented in table. 9.2.

Table 9.2. FrontPage toolbars

Select the desired panel from this menu. In this case, a checkmark will appear in the menu on the left side of the name of the selected toolbar, and the panel itself will appear in the main window. To remove an unnecessary toolbar from the screen, you must select the corresponding menu command again. The checkmark located in the menu next to the name will disappear, and the toolbar will be removed from the main FrontPage program window.

Advice

To display a list of toolbars on the screen, simply place the cursor on any toolbar located in the main window of the FrontPage program and click the right mouse button.

Let's get acquainted with the standard toolbar of the FrontPage program, which is used in all modes (Fig. 9.3).

Rice. 9.3. Standard FrontPage toolbar

The purpose of the buttons on this toolbar is described in Table. 9.3.

Table 9.3. Purpose of the buttons on the standard toolbar

Advice

When working in any window, you can determine the purpose of a button on the toolbar by placing the mouse cursor over it. Its name will appear.

The last button on the standard toolbar is More Buttons. It contains a context menu. When you select the Add or remove buttons command from it, and then the Standard option, a list of all the buttons on the standard panel will appear on the monitor screen. By selecting a button from this list, you can remove buttons that are not needed from the toolbar. To restore a missing button on the toolbar, just select its name from this list again.

By default, the standard toolbar is placed at the top of the main window, but you can change the position of the toolbar by moving it anywhere on the screen, and you can also change its size.

Menu

Interaction with FrontPage is carried out using menu commands. Most teams are hierarchical. As a result of selecting one of these commands, its submenu appears on the screen.

You can use any of the following methods to select a menu command:

• The simplest is to use the mouse (place the cursor on the desired command and click the left mouse button).
• If you prefer to use the keyboard, first move the cursor to the menu bar. To do this, press either the key , or . The first command in the menu is highlighted. Place the highlight on the required command using the keys <←>, <→>, <>, <↓>, then press the key .
• You can click<Аlt>+<подчеркнутый символ имени команды>(the command will be executed without pressing a key ).

Comment

To the right of the names of some menu commands, key combinations may be indicated; when pressed, these commands are called up quickly.

Let's look at the File, Edit, and View commands. The purpose of the remaining commands will be described later in the book as we consider the modes in which they are used.

File

The File menu contains commands for creating, opening, closing, saving and printing files (Table 9.4). The last command in this menu is Exit. It is intended to exit FrontPage.

Table 9.4. File menu commands

Edit

Most of the Edit menu commands are familiar to you if you've worked with other Windows applications. They are used when editing Web pages (Table 9.5).

Table 9.5. Edit menu commands

The Tasks command opens the next level menu containing options that control tasks:

• Add Task - adds a new task
• Edit Task - edits the current task
• Start Task - starts the current task for execution
• Mark Complete - changes the task status
• Show History - allows you to view the entire list of tasks, including previously completed ones

View

The View menu contains commands (Table 9.6) that control the operating modes of the FrontPage program, as well as the display of the Views panel, Navigation Pane, Folder List and toolbars.

Table 9.6. View menu commands

Context menu

The FrontPage program (in addition to the main menu) provides a context menu, the composition of which depends on the current operating mode. To access the context menu, simply place the cursor on the object you are currently working with and press the right mouse button. Selecting commands is carried out in the same way as from the main menu.

Operating Modes Panel

FrontPage offers 6 modes for viewing and creating a Web site. To switch to one mode or another, use the Views panel on the left side of the main FrontPage window, which contains 6 buttons. The purpose of the buttons on this panel is described in table. 9.7.

The display of this panel on the screen is controlled by the Views Bar command of the View menu. If you do not want the View Bar to be present in the main window, taking up the work area, remove it from the screen by selecting the View Bar command again.

Table 9.7. Mode panel buttons

Comment

To switch to one of the operating modes, in addition to the buttons on the Views panel, you can use the menu commands of the same name
View.

Opening files

To view and edit existing Web sites and pages in FrontPage, you must open them using menu commands, the keyboard, or the standard toolbar.

Opening a Web site

To open a Web site in FrontPage, follow these steps:

1. From the File menu, select Open Web or on the standard toolbar, click the arrow to the right of the Open button and select Open Web from the menu that opens.

2.Using the Look in drop-down list in the Open Web dialog box that opens (Figure 9.4), select the folder in which the Web site you are opening is located.

3.Select the required Web site and click the Open button.

Rice. 9.4. Open Web Site Dialog Box

Comment

The icons that designate Web sites (Figure 9.4) are similar to the icons for folders containing an image of a globe.

The Open a Web Site dialog box contains buttons designed to make it easier to find a Web site on your disk if it is located in one of the system folders:

Advice

To open, after starting the program, the Web site that you worked with the previous time you started FrontPage, you must select the Options command in the Tools menu and on the General tab of the dialog box that appears, select the Open the last Web site at startup checkbox FrontPage (Open last web automatically when FrontPage starts).

Advice

To open a Web site, you can use the Recent Webs command on the File menu, which contains the names of the four most recently opened Web sites.

Each Web site you open appears in a new FrontPage window. To prevent this from happening, before loading a new Web site, close the open site using the Close Web command from the File menu.

Opening a Web Page

You can use the Open File dialog box in FrontPage to open Web pages stored on disk as individual files, Web pages from the Internet, and Web site pages. When you open a page that is part of a Web site, the Web site itself opens.

To open a Web page, do one of the following:

• From the File menu, select Open.
• On the standard toolbar, click the arrow on the right side of the Open button and select Open from the menu that appears.
• Press the key combination +.

When you perform any of these actions, the Open File dialog box opens (Fig. 9.5). Using the Look in drop-down list, select the folder in which the Web page you are opening is located. Then place the cursor on the selected page and click the Open button.

Comment

Notice the web page icon. It really does resemble a page with an arrow pointing outward.

Rice. 9.5. Open File Dialog Box

Using the buttons in the Open File dialog box, you can speed up the search for the required Web page if it is located in the system folder, the name of which is located on the left side of the window. You can also open a Web site by using the Recent Files command on the File menu, which contains the names of the four most recently opened Web pages.

Folder List and Navigation Pane panels

In the main program window in the Page, Navigation and Hyperlinks modes, you can display the Folder List panel, showing the folder structure of the open Web site (Fig. 9.6). To do this, select the Folder List command from the View menu. When you switch to Folders mode, this panel is located in the main FrontPage window by default.

Rice. 9.6. Folder List panel

Comment

Using the Folder List panel, look at the Web site's file name extensions. The web page has the file name extension HTM. In addition to Web pages, a Web site may contain GIF and JPG files (graphics files), as well as other file types if you use programs included with Microsoft Office to create the pages.

In the Page, Navigation, and Hyperlinks operating modes, to the right of the Folder List panel there is a work area for viewing and editing a Web site or Web page (depending on the mode you are in). ). In Fig. 9.7 an open Web page is located in the work area.

Pay attention to the bottom part of the Folder List panel in the Page operating mode. The Folder List and Navigation tabs are located there, allowing you to display the folder panel or navigation panel, respectively, without using the menus and buttons on the main toolbar.

Rice. 9.7. Displaying the folder structure of a Web site in Page mode

Working with the Folder List panel is similar to working in the Windows Explorer window. By opening the folders that define the structure of a Web site opened in FrontPage, you can easily find the required page and open it for viewing and editing. To open a page, double-click its name or icon. This will display the selected page in the FrontPage workspace, which you can view or edit. If several pages are open, at the top of this area there are tabs with their names, which serve to navigate between pages
(see Fig. 9.7).

Comment

If you are in Navigation and Hyperlinks mode, then double-clicking on the name of the selected Web page automatically switches to editing mode.

In the Page operating mode, you can place a Navigation Pane in the FrontPage program window, designed to view the navigation structure of an open Web site. This panel shows the pages of the site and their hierarchical relationship with each other. To display the Navigation Pane, you can use the command of the same name from the View menu, the Toggle Pane button on the standard toolbar, or the tab at the bottom of the Folder List pane.

The width of the Views panel, Folder List panel, and Navigation Pane can be adjusted using the mouse. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Place the cursor on the right vertical border of the panel or area whose width you want to change.

2.When the cursor changes to a double-headed arrow, press the mouse button and, while holding it down, move the cursor to the right to increase the width of the panel or folder area, or to the left to decrease it.

3.Once you have set the desired panel or area width, release the mouse button.

Operating modes

As mentioned above, there are 6 operating modes in the FrontPage program, to switch to which are the buttons on the Views panel, as well as the first six commands of the View menu. Let us briefly consider the main operating modes.

Modes for viewing and editing a Web page

When you open a new or previously created Web border in FrontPage, you find yourself in Page view and editing mode. To switch to editing mode from other modes, use the Page button of the Views panel or the Page command of the View menu.

In Fig. Figure 9.8 shows the main program window in Page mode. As you can see, the window contains the Views operating mode panel, the Folder List panel, and on the right is a work area intended for viewing and editing a Web page. At the top of the work area there are tabs with the names of the pages you have opened and how to navigate between them.

Rice. 9.8. Operating mode Page

In Page mode, you can create new Web pages and edit existing ones. In this mode, you can set a theme for a Web page, place text on it using formatting elements, graphics and video images, hyperlinks, tables, frames, etc. In other words, in editing mode, the page contains everything that a visitor will see when opening it on the Internet.

When you switch to page editing mode, menu commands and buttons on toolbars that are responsible for editing the content of the Web page become available.

In the Page mode, at the bottom of the work area in which the page being edited is located, there are three tabs that allow you to view the Web page in different modes (Table 9.8).

Table 9.8. Web page viewing modes

Rice. 9.9. Viewing a page in HTML codes

Advice

To correctly navigate the HTML codes and easily find the place to edit, in normal mode, place the cursor at the place on the page where you want to make changes and go to the HTML code tab. The cursor will accurately indicate the editing location.

Folder structure view mode

To switch to viewing mode for the folder structure of a Web site, use the Folders button on the Views panel or the Folders command from the View menu. In this mode of operation, the main window silently contains the Folder List panel with the names of the hidden Web site folders, located in a hierarchy, and the program work area contains the contents of the folder selected in the panel (Fig. 9.10).

Rice. 9.10. FrontPage main window in Folder mode

The information in the workspace is presented in tabular form and contains detailed information about the files in the selected folder. Using this mode, you can find out the name of the file with which it is saved on disk, its type, size, the name of the developer and the date of the last modification of the file, as well as the name of the Web page.

The list of files in the table can be sorted by ascending or descending values ​​located in a particular column. To sort the list of files in alphabetical order in ascending order, just click on the header of the column by the values ​​of which you want to sort the data. To change the sort order, you can click on the header again. To sort files by the date they were last modified, use the Modified Date column.

Look at the icons of the files located in the program work area. Folder icons are familiar to you from working with Windows. The most common icons are Web page icons and graphic file icons. File icons imported from Microsoft Office contain the logos of the original programs. To organize files by their types, in the right work area, click on the Type (Type) column header.

From folder structure view mode, you can switch to page editing mode without using the Views panel. To do this, in the workspace of the FrontPage program, in the list of files, place the cursor on the page to be modified and perform one of the following actions:

• Double click
• Press the key

When performing any of these actions in the work area of ​​the main program window, instead of a list of files in table form, the selected page will open in editing mode. To exit this mode and return to the folder structure view mode, click the Folders button on the Views panel.

Creating new folders

If, while working in FrontPage, the need arises for a new folder to organize existing files, you can create it from the folder structure view mode. To do this, follow these steps:

2. In the Folder List panel, which displays the hierarchical folder structure, place the cursor on the folder in which you want to place the created folder.

3. From the File menu, select the New command, and then from the submenu that appears, the Folder command, or right-click and select the New and Folder commands from the context menu. A new folder named New Folder will appear in the hierarchical folder structure of the left workspace. The same folder will appear in the right pane, and its name is active for renaming (Figure 9.11).

4. Enter the folder name and press the key .

Comment

If you do not immediately enter a name for the created folder, the folder will have the name New_Folder, which is assigned to it by default by FrontPage. You can later rename the folder using the context menu command Rename. In addition, to rename, you can also highlight the folder name and, after a short pause, click the mouse button. The folder name becomes editable and you can enter a new name.

Rice. 9.11. Creating a new folder in Folders operating mode

Moving files

To move files between folders on a Web site in folder structure view mode, FrontPage allows you to use the "move and place" method. For example, to organize your files, you created a new folder and want to place files of a certain type or on a specific topic in it. To move files, follow these steps:

1. Go to the folder structure viewing mode Folders.

2. Using the workspace of the FrontPage program, which in this mode of operation contains a list of files and folders of the Web site, select the file or group of files to be moved (Fig. 9.12). To select consecutive files, use the pressed key , and for files that are not located in a row - the key .

Rice. 9.12. Selecting files for further movement

3. Click the left mouse button and, while holding it down, move the cursor to the Folder List panel, which displays the hierarchical structure of the Web site, to the folder in which you want to place the selected files.

4. Release the mouse button. The procedure for moving files will begin, during which a window appears on the monitor screen indicating the operations performed. Once the move is complete, this window disappears from the screen, indicating that the operation was successful.

Comment

When you move files between folders on a Web site, you don't have to worry about maintaining existing links, because FrontPage takes care of that.

Mode Transitions

The Navigation operating mode, also called the navigation mode, allows the developer to visually view and modify the hierarchical structure of the pages of the Web site being created. This structure is used to create link bars that are placed on pages and serve to navigate between pages of a Web site. To switch to the Transitions mode, use the Transitions button on the Views mode panel and the Navigation command from the View menu.

In the Transitions operating mode, the Folder List panel appears in the main program window, and the hierarchical structure of the Web site is located in the program work area (Fig. 9.13), on which pages are presented in the form of rectangles. The name of the rectangle corresponds to the name of the page it displays. A rectangle with a house icon indicates the home page. This page is always located in the structure at the highest level of the hierarchy.

Creating and changing a hierarchical structure is carried out using the "move-and-leave" method, which allows you to "take" a Web site page from the Folder List panel and place it in the desired place in the structure, as well as move something already in it within the structure page.

Rice. 9.13. Web site in operation mode Transitions

Operating mode Hyperlinks

The Hyperlinks operating mode allows the developer to view in graphical form all the links installed on the pages of the Web site. To switch to the hyperlink viewing mode, use the Hyperlinks button on the Views mode panel and the Hyperlinks command from the View menu.

In the hyperlinks viewing mode, the main window of the FrontPage program displays the Folder List panel, and in the work area - the link diagram of the open Web site (Fig. 9.14).

Rice. 9.14. Web site hyperlink viewing mode

In the hyperlink diagram, files are represented as icons with their names next to them. Links in the diagram are represented as lines. To the left of the icon are links incoming to the page, and to the right are outgoing links.

If there is a plus sign inside the icon, it means that there are files that have links to this file or the file itself has links to other pages. When you click on the plus sign, these links are expanded, and the plus sign is replaced with a minus sign. The icon can be used to judge the file itself. For example, a globe icon indicates files posted on the Internet. If the icon looks like a picture, then this file is graphic.

Report generation and viewing mode

As a rule, a Web site is a complex object, which in turn consists of a large number of Web pages, hyperlinks, and files (graphics, multimedia, text). The Reports viewing mode allows you to group files according to certain criteria, see the volume they occupy, their estimated download speed, see a list of files created or modified over a certain period of time, etc.

To switch to the Reports operating mode, use the Reports button on the Views mode panel and the Reports command from the View menu. When performing these actions, a table is displayed in the work area of ​​the FrontPage program (Fig. 9.15), the names of the columns of which, as well as their number, depend on the type of report specified using the Reporting toolbar and the Reports menu options.

Rice. 9.15. Report viewing mode

Mode for generating and viewing tasks

The Tasks operating mode is intended to help in planning and organizing work on creating a Web site, which is important when conducting large-scale development with a large number of participants. In this mode, you can create a list of works, the priority of their implementation and in what time frame these tasks should be completed, and indicate the performers.

To enter the mode of creating and viewing tasks, use the Tasks button on the Views operating mode panel and the Tasks command from the View menu. When you switch to the Tasks mode, a list of generated tasks is located in the right work area of ​​the program in tabular form (Fig. 9.16). Work in this mode is carried out using the Tasks command from the Edit menu and the context menu.

Rice. 9.16. Mode for generating and viewing tasks

Quitting FrontPage

After completing the current work session, you must close the FrontPage program. To do this, you can use one of the following methods:

• Select Exit from the File menu
• Select the Close command in the system menu of the main FrontPage window
• Double-click the FrontPage program icon in the main window title bar

If you haven't saved the information, FrontPage will prompt you to decide what to do with it. To do this, a dialog box similar to that shown in Fig. 1 appears on the screen. 9.17.

Rice. 9.17. Dialog box that appears when you try to exit FrontPage without saving information

To continue the operation, click one of the buttons:

If a Web site was opened, a separate request will appear for each page on which data was edited.

FrontPage is a program for creating HTML pages and then "publishing" them. This is a fairly old software solution that has not been supported for a long time. It was replaced by the program.

Functional

FrontPage will be a useful assistant for webmasters who want to simplify the process of creating web pages and make it more comfortable. The program provides a large set of tools with which you can not only create pages, but also design them in accordance with your wishes or customer requirements. It is quite convenient that the program is able to control user errors. All errors in tags will be found and shown to you for further correction.

The software contains a built-in set of templates that you can use when creating pages - this will save time and avoid reinventing the wheel. With the help of a special manager, you can very quickly publish your finished work. And in case of difficulties and questions, we recommend opening the help section - it will tell you better than Google how to find a way out of the impasse.

Operating modes

The software product provides several modes of operation - designer, code, viewing results, as well as a "combined" mode, in the case of which the working window will be divided into two areas - creating code and viewing. When working with the designer, all mistakes made will be shown - there you can also work with images inserted between text, links, frames and many other elements. It is more rational to use code mode not for viewing, but for editing.

Key Features

• creation of web pages, their design and content;
• visual code review using design mode (WYSIWYG);
• integrated template library;
• built-in manager for quick and convenient publication of the final result;
• the ability to access the directory;
• automatic search and correction of errors;
• Availability of a Russian version of the graphical shell.

If earlier it seemed that creating web pages was quite complicated and impossible without special knowledge, then after the release of HTML editors with the WYSIWYG function began, it turned out that even an absolute beginner who knows nothing about markup languages ​​can create a website. One of the first software products of this group was Front Page on the Trident engine from Microsoft, which was included in various versions of office suites up to and including 2003. Last but not least, it was thanks to this fact that the program enjoyed such wide popularity.

The main feature of the program, which especially attracts beginners, is the ability to layout a page without knowledge of HTML code or other markup languages. This is made possible thanks to the WYSIWYG feature, the name of which is an English abbreviation of the expression translated into Russian as “what you see is what you get.” That is, the user gets the opportunity to type text and insert pictures into the created web page almost in the same way as in the Word word processor. The main difference from the latter is that Front Page has more different web components available, such as Flash and XML. WYSIWYG function is enabled when operating in "Constructor".

Using the elements on the toolbar, you can format text in the same way as in Word:

• Select font type;
• Set its size;
• Color;
• Specify positioning and much more.

In addition, you can insert pictures directly from the editor.

Standard HTML editor

For more advanced users, the program offers the ability to use a standard HTML editor using markup language.

Split editor

Another option for working with the program when creating a web page is to use a split editor. In its upper part there is a panel where the HTML code is displayed, and in the lower part its version is displayed in the mode "Constructor". When you edit data in one of the panels, the data in the other is automatically changed.

View Mode

Front Page also has the ability to view the resulting web page in the form in which it will be displayed on the site through the Internet Explorer browser.

Spell check

When working in modes "Constructor" or "With separation" Front Page has a spell checking function, similar to that in Word.

Working in multiple tabs

The program allows you to work in several tabs, that is, create several web pages at the same time.

Applying templates

Front Page offers the opportunity to create a website based on ready-made design templates built into the program itself.

Linking to Web Sites

The program has the ability to communicate with various websites by transferring data.

Advantages

• Easy to use;
• Availability of Russian-language interface;
• The ability to create websites even for a beginner.

Flaws

• The program is outdated, as it has not been updated since 2003;
• Not available for download on the official website due to the fact that it has not been supported by the developer for a long time;
• Incorrectness and redundancy of the code are noted;
• Does not support modern web technologies;
• Web page content created in Front Page may not display correctly in browsers that do not run on the Internet Explorer engine.

Front Page is an HTML editor with WYSIWYG functionality that was popular with users at one time and was notable for its ease of creating web pages. However, at present it is hopelessly outdated, since it has not been supported by Microsoft for a long time, and web technologies have already gone far ahead. However, many users remember this program with nostalgia.