Using Frontpage

Visit the site below and work through the tutorial. The tutorial includes some simple exercises that assist you in creating a simple website. As you complete the tutorial answer the questions below.

http://office.microsoft.com/training/Training.aspx?AssetID=RC011140711033&CTT=6&Origin=RC011140711033

1. What two steps are recommended in planning your site?

·       Establish a goal and keep it simple

·       Know your audience

2. What is a web server?

·       A Web server is a computer that runs special serving software. That software "serves" HTML pages and associated files when requested by a client, such as a Web browser.

3. Provide examples of some features that FrontPage Server Extensions provide for a website?

·       Graphics

·       Documents

·       Multimedia

4. How do you put your website on a web server?

·       To put your site on a Web server, you publish it.

·       Publishing generally means copying all of the files to a remote location on a server.

·        In most cases, the remote location is either an HTTP path or an FTP path. 

5. FrontPage has two key functions – website design and …..?

·       Management

6. What are some commonly used file names for Home Pages accepted by servers?

·       Defult.html

·       Index.html

·       Index.htm

7. What is FrontPage Metadata and which two folders contain these files?

·       FrontPage metadata is information about your FrontPage Web site that makes managing the site possible. 

·        the _vti_cnf folder and the _vti_pvt folder.

8. There are two basic types of website can you create in FrontPage; what are they and how do they differ?

·       Disk- Based: A disk-based Web site is a site you create on your local hard drive. After you design and work on the site, you can later publish it to a remote location like a Web server

·       Server- Based: A server-based Web site is a site you create and work with directly on a Web server.