Microsoft<sup>?</sup> FrontPage 2003: Savvy<sup><small>TM</small></sup>,9780782142389

Microsoft? FrontPage 2003: SavvyTM

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ISBN13: 9780782142389
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Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
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Summary

Savvyn. Practical know-how.FrontPage 2003 makes web development and maintenance easier than ever. At the same time, it holds more power than evermeaning that even experienced users can use some help taking advantage of everything it has to offer.Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Savvy provides that help. Using a variety of informational, corporate, and commercial sites as examples, this book walks you through the web development cycle. You'll learn how to define and meet specific site goals, make wise technical choices, overcome inevitable obstacles, and keep the site working and evolving in ways that makes all its stakeholders happy.Tutorial-based instruction gets you up and running no matter what your experience. You'll also get focused coverage of new FrontPage features, including accessibility checking and improved CSS and Sharepoint support. Continue your progress with in-depth examinations of advanced topics plus hard-to-find workarounds and shortcuts. And beautifully realized examples, both online and in the book's full-color insert, demonstrate some of the things you can achieve with FrontPage 2003. Coverage includes: Planning: workspace customization, site architecture, content acquisition, server setup, team-building. Building: page layout, graphics placement, formatting text and links, navigation design and implementation. Adding dynamic content: animation, ActiveX controls and other advanced objects, forms. Integrating applications: database connectivity, scripting, dynamic page content, search engines. Administration: back-end interface design, remote maintenance, setting up your own web server.

Author Biography

Christian Crumlish has been designing web sites since 1994. Hes currently a consultant developing web-enabled applications for Fortune 500 clients. He has authored over 15 computer books including Dreamweaver MX/Fireworks MX Savvy.

Kate Chase is an online technical manager who has lead support communities on AOL, MSN and ZDNet. Kate has authored several computer books including Instant E-Commerce and PC Disaster and Recovery. She has helped people use FrontPage to create professional sites.

Table of Contents

Introduction xix
PART I PLANNING YOUR PROJECT AND SETTING UP FRONTPAGE 1(102)
Chapter 1 Planning and Preparing for a Web Project
3(20)
How FrontPage Helps You Prepare
4(2)
Questions You Must Answer
6(8)
Brainstorming Your Concept
14(8)
Getting Started
22(1)
Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Workspace
23(20)
Getting Oriented
24(3)
Changing the View
27(8)
Customizing Your Workspace
35(5)
Planning for Accessibility
40(1)
From Page to Site
41(2)
Chapter 3 Web Pages Deconstructed
43(14)
The Elements of a Web Page
44(1)
Working with Content
45(2)
Designing for the Web
47(5)
Setting Up a Navigation Scheme
52(3)
Time for Groundbreaking
55(2)
Chapter 4 Defining Your Website
57(28)
Further Developing the Site Design
58(2)
Setting Up Your Website
60(7)
Dynamic Web Templates
67(1)
Using Themes
67(5)
Hands On: Creating Your Own Theme
72(1)
Considering Your Navigation
73(2)
Setting Up a Web Server
75(9)
Going Forth From Here
84(1)
Chapter 5 Gathering Content and
Working with a Team
85(1)
Taking an Inventory of Content
86(6)
Creating Reusable Web Content
92(2)
There's No "I" in Team
94(1)
Version Control with Check-in/Check-out
95(3)
Teamwork with Windows SharePoint Services
98(4)
Enough with the Planning, Already
102(1)
PART II BUILDING A WEB PAGE 103(192)
Chapter 6 Creating a New Web Page
105(22)
Starting a New Web Page
106(3)
Hands On: Building a New Page with the Help of a Wizard
109(4)
Setting Up Your New Page
113(4)
Applying Themes
117(1)
Working with Style Sheets
118(6)
Adding a Page Transition
124(2)
Doing Page Layout
126(1)
Chapter 7 Working Through Page Layout
127(40)
Test, Learn, and Enjoy
128(1)
Selecting and Fine-Tuning a Predefined Layout or Theme
129(3)
Page Layout with Tables
132(12)
Page Layout with Cascading Style Sheets
144(13)
Page Layout with Frames
157(3)
Hands On: Setting Up Frames for Your Site
160(4)
Anchor Points or Bookmarks and the Positioning Toolbar
164(2)
All the Text Content That's Fit to Format
166(1)
Chapter 8 Inserting and Formatting Text
167(34)
The Importance of Effective Formatting
168(3)
Working with Text and Formatting
171(17)
Working with Style
188(1)
Hands On: Adding Style Rules and Applying Style
189(4)
Repurposing Office Content
193(3)
Hands On: Copying Material from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
196(4)
Picture It
200(1)
Chapter 9 Working with Graphics
201(28)
Creating Graphics
202(4)
GIF, JPEG, and PNG File Formats
206(1)
Inserting Graphics into a Web Page
207(3)
Hands On: Inserting and Positioning a Picture
210(8)
Editing Graphics
218(7)
Creating a Photo Gallery
225(1)
Tracing a Page Design
225(2)
Connecting Pages
227(2)
Chapter 10 Inserting and Maintaining Hyperlinks
229(24)
Fundamental Concepts
230(3)
Inserting Links
233(7)
Creating a Bookmark
240(1)
Using an Image as a Link
241(1)
Creating an Image Map
242(3)
Modifying Links
245(1)
Controlling Hyperlink Colors and Effects
246(2)
Managing Links
248(4)
From Deep Structure to Interface
252(1)
Chapter 11 Implementing Your J Navigation Scheme
253(24)
Navigation Savvy
254(2)
Using Navigation View
256(4)
Major Navigation Scheme Tools
260(3)
FrontPage Navigation: Go it Alone or Improvise?
263(1)
Creating Navigation/Link Bars
263(2)
Creating Navigation Menus
265(5)
Troubleshooting Your Navigation
270(1)
Creating DHTML Navigation Menus
271(1)
Inserting Menus
272(1)
Leaving Breadcrumbs
273(2)
From the Static to the Dynamic
275(2)
Chapter 12 Working with Dynamic Web Templates
277(18)
About Dynamic Web Templates
278(4)
Creating a Dynamic Web Template
282(1)
Hands On: Designing a Dynamic Web Template
282(7)
Applying the Dynamic Web Template
289(4)
Modifying a Dynamic Web Template
293(1)
Getting More Dynamic With Your Site
294(1)
PART III ADDING DYNAMIC CONTENT 295(72)
Chapter 13 Adding Animation and Multimedia
297(20)
Creating Image Rollovers
298(6)
Creating Animated GIF Files
304(1)
Rules of the Road for Web Animation
305(1)
Hands On: Creating an Animated GIF
306(3)
Adding Other Media to Your Site
309(1)
Using Multimedia Add-ins
310(4)
Inserting Other Types of Dynamic Content
314(2)
Man Those Controls!
316(1)
Chapter 14 Inserting ActiveX Controls and Other Advanced Objects
317(20)
Consider Your Audience
318(1)
ActiveX Controls
318(6)
Hands On: Using ActiveX Controls/Office Web Components to Add a Web-Based Spreadsheet
324(2)
Other Advanced Controls
326(8)
Testing and Troubleshooting Controls and Objects
334(1)
Taking Up a (Data) Collection
335(2)
Chapter 15 Building Forms
337(30)
Data Collection vs. Navigation
338(1)
How Forms Work
338(2)
Planning Your Forms
340(2)
Anatomy of a Web Form
342(12)
Creating a Form
354(5)
Hands On: Creating a Jump Menu
359(3)
Handling Forms at the Back End
362(3)
Next Stop, Faster Scripting
365(2)
PART IV DEVELOPING WEB APPLICATIONS 367(132)
Chapter 16 An Overview of Database-Backed Sites
369(28)
An Introduction to Database-Backed Sites
370(1)
Designing and Testing Web Applications
371(1)
Choosing an Application Server Model and Scripting Language
372(1)
Setting Up an Application Server
373(4)
Working with ASP, ASP.NET, JScript, and VBScript
377(7)
Working with XML
384(11)
Right Down to the Code
395(2)
Chapter 17 Working Directly with Markup and Scripts
397(30)
Working with Added HTML
398(7)
Using Code Snippets to Store Repeated Code Blocks
405(5)
Using Microsoft Visual Basic Editor
410(3)
Adding VBScript, JavaScript, and JScript
413(12)
Troubleshooting Scripts and Markup
425(1)
Give Us Your Data
426(1)
Chapter 18 Developing Data-Driven Websites
427(34)
Working with Databases
428(2)
Preparing a Database
430(3)
How FrontPage Views Data
433(1)
Defining a Data Source
434(1)
Working with Data Connections
435(10)
Working with SharePoint Data Views
445(6)
Working with Web Parts
451(2)
Hands On: Combining Data Views
453(1)
Troubleshooting Database Connections
454(2)
Working Directly with SQL
456(3)
Bells and Whistles
459(2)
Chapter 19 Adding Automatic Web Components
461(20)
Using Office Web Components
462(3)
Adding Office Web Components to Your Site
465(7)
Hands On: Creating a Web-Based Interactive Spreadsheet
472(2)
Connecting to Web Services Using NET
474(2)
FrontPage Automatic Web Content Components
476(2)
Up for Discussion
478(3)
Chapter 20 Promoting Community with Discussions
481(18)
Defining Discussions
482(1)
Setting Up a Discussion
483(13)
Managing Your Discussions
496(2)
Empowering a Living Site
498(1)
PART V SITE ADMINISTRATION FROM START TO FINISH 499(74)
Chapter 21 Setting Up the Back-End Interface
501(30)
Establishing User Administration
502(12)
About Login Pages and Processes
514(15)
Spare Yourself the (Web) Winter of Dis-Content
529(2)
Chapter 22 Enabling Content Management
531(14)
Defining a Content-Management Strategy
532(3)
Content Updates with Dynamic Web Templates
535(1)
There are Templates. .. and Templates
535(1)
Integrating a Weblog
536(3)
Choosing a Weblog Tool
539(2)
Working with Weblog Templates
541(1)
Hands On: Adding a SharePoint Weblog to Your Site
542(1)
Last-Minute Checklist
543(2)
Chapter 23 Going Live
545(14)
Checking Browser Compatibility
546(6)
Meeting Accessibility Standards
552(3)
Quality Assurance and Final Testing
555(1)
Turnover: From Staging to Production
556(2)
The Long Haul
558(1)
Chapter 24 Maintaining and Administering a Site
559(14)
Making Updates and Corrections
560(2)
Hands On: Creating and Revising a Site Map
562(3)
Managing Users
565(1)
Journalmg, Site Versioning, and Rollback
566(1)
Handing the Product Off to a Client
567(3)
Tracking Site Activity
570(2)
Go Forth
572(1)
Appendix A Installing a Web Server 573(20)
Do You Need a Web Server?
574(2)
Internet Information Services
576(7)
Running Windows SharePoint Services
583(10)
Appendix B Online Resources 593(12)
General Resources
594(3)
Microsoft Frontpage Websites
597(1)
Website Planning Information
597(1)
Web Accessibility Resources
598(1)
Design and Layout Resources
598(1)
Web Development and Applications Resources
599(2)
Resources for Developing Data Backed Sites
601(1)
Content-Management Resources
602(1)
Website Administration Resources
603(2)
Index 605

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