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STEP BY STEP GUIDE
Mark Nicholls
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Contents
Introduction to this unit.... Page 4
How to open FrontPage.....Page 4
The FrontPage Menu Bar...Page 5
Downloading Files from the Web.....Page 6
Creating a New Folder..................... Page 6
Renaming the Folder..... Page 6
Downloading the Files...... Page 7
Style Sheets... Page 8 - 20
What is a Style Sheet?..................................................................................... Page 8
How to create a Style Sheet..... Page 8
Specify styles for the Style Sheet.....Page 9 - 11
Viewing generated code for a Style Sheet.. Page 12
Saving a Style Sheet.....Page 12 - 13
Example of the effects of a Style Sheet.. Page 13
Printing Style Sheet code.... Page 14 - 15
Attaching Style Sheets to web pages.......... Page 19
Removing Style Sheets from web pages... Page 20
Creating web pages from scratch..... Page 16
Saving web pages.... Page 16
Adding text to web pages. Page 20
Using tags to set styles to text.... Page 20 - 24
Accessing HTML code ... Page 20 - 21
Adding the paragraph <p> tags to the HTML code.. Page 21
Checking that the tag is communicating with the Style Sheet... Page 22
Adding the heading <h1> tags to the HTML code. Page 24
Creating and Formatting Tables.. Page 25 - 28
Inserting a table... Page 25
Formatting a table (border size, rows/columns, colour etc)........... Page 25 - 26
Getting back into table properties.. Page 26
Merging table cells...... Page 26 - 27
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File:
New Page
Save As
Preview in Browser
Insert:
Pictures
Hyperlinks
Format:
Font Styles / Sizes / Colours
Background Colours
Style Sheets
Table:
Insert a new Table
Edit existing Table
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SPECIMEN1.TXT
SPECIMEN2.HTM
SPECIMEN3.HTM
SPECIMEN4.GIF
SPECIMEN5.JPG
SPECIMEN6.JPG
SPECIMEN7.CSV
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Save the style sheet and attach it to each web page as you create it.
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Select the HTML tag you want to apply the style to:
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1. Click Format
2. From the menu select what you would
like to change
Font --- for font, colour, bold, italics, size
Paragraph --- for align left/right/centre
Numbering --- for numbers and bullets
1. Choose a Font
Comic sans = sans-serif font
Times New Roman = serif font
2.
3.
4.
5.
1. Click Format
2. Select Paragraph
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1. Click Format
2. Select Numbering
1. Your styles list will only show the styles that you have created.
2. To add styles to more HTML tags
you need to select HTML tags
from the list menu.
NOTE:
At this stage you would repeat the above instructions add create the styles for the
rest of the HTML tags specified in the task
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NOTE:
We will attach this style sheet to a web
page later.
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1. Click File
2. Click Open
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1. Click File
2. Click Print
3. Select the correct printer
4. Click OK
NOTE:
NEVER print anything without your name and
numbers added.
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4.2 Save the web page with the correct name - How to do it:
To save the web page with a specific name you should do the following:
1. Click File
2. Click Save As
3. Browse to your web authoring past
paper folder
4. Name the file HOMEPAGE.htm
5. Make sure that Save as type is set
to Web Pages
6. Click Save
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NOTE:
This task is not asking you to do
anything other than understand
where objects will go.
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Task 6 Attach the external style sheet created in task 2 to the web page
Attach the external style sheet that was saved in task 2 to HOMEPAGE.htm.
4. Click Add
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Task 7 Add some text to the web page and set text styles
In the top left corner add the text Last edited by: and then add your name, centre
number and candidate number.
Set the text to style p.
We need to tell FrontPage that this text is a paragraph. This is so the style sheet can
apply the formatting that we set up for the p tag (paragraph tag) in task 2.
To do this we need to view the code for our
text:
1. Highlight the text and then click the
Code tab
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Once we have access to the code, we need to surround our line of text (Last edited
by) with something called a tag.
Tags are used to instruct web browsers how to display objects on the web page
(text styles for example). Tags almost always work in pairs with an opening tag <>
and a closing tag </>. The opening tag tells the browser to start applying the style
and the closing tag tells it to stop applying the style.
The tag we need to surround our text with is the <p> </p> (paragraph) tags.
1. Position your curser to the left
of the text
2. Type in <p>
3. FrontPage will automatically assume you also want the closing tag </p>.
4. Move the closing tag </p> to
the end of the text
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Checking that the style sheet has applied the correct formatting:
Now that we have surrounded the line of text with the <p> </p> tags, the style
sheet can apply the formatting that we set up during task 2.
To see if this has happened we need to go back into Design View to see the effects.
2. This will take us back into Design View and you should notice that the style
sheet has indeed altered the text to match the formatting specified in task 2
(black, sans-serif, 10 points, left aligned):
Before style was applied
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Task 8 is almost the same as task 7 apart from different text, different text position
and a different set of tags:
1. Open the HOMEPAGE.htm
web page file in Design View
2. Position your curser under the
first piece of text
3. Type in the required heading
(Rootrainer Trees)
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3. FrontPage will automatically assume you also want the closing tag </h1>.
4. Move the closing tag </h1> to
the end of the text
Checking that the style sheet has applied the correct formatting:
Go back into design view and check that the correct formatting has been applied
from the style sheet (dark blue, sans-serif, 36 points, centre aligned, bold).
Before style was applied
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You can get back into table properties at any time by:
1. Right click the table
2. Select table properties
This is useful if you need to correct mistakes or add /
remove rows and columns.
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4. Repeat for the other sections that require merging. Your table should look like
this when you are finished:
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3. Your table should look like this when you are finished:
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When an examination question asks you to resize an image it will also specify
whether or not you should maintain aspect ratio.
Maintaining Aspect Ratio
Resizing the image whilst keeping the correct dimensions
Not Maintaining Aspect Ratio
Resizing the image whilst distorting the dimensions
Image in correct
proportions
Image
distorted
The task wants us to resize the image to 250 pixels high and maintain aspect ratio.
To do this you should:
1. Right click the image
2. Select Picture Properties
NOTE:
If you needed to distort the image for any reason you would simply uncheck the Keep aspect
ratio box before setting a new height.
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Task 11 Insert text that has been supplied to you in a downloaded text file
Using the contents of the file SPECIMEN1.TXT:
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Paste the text into the correct section of the web page:
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Task 12 Use tags to attach our style sheet to the text items in the table
Set the text:
In tasks 7 and 8 we used 2 different tags to change how some of the text on our web
page looked. The tags used in those tasks were the <h1> </h1> tag and the <p> tag.
Tags are used to alter how items on our web pages look and they can also be used
alongside style sheets to specify exact font styles, colours, sizes etc.
Tags almost always work in pairs with a start tag <> and a close tag </>.
Common tags that you should know include:
Tags
<h1> </h1>
<h2> </h2>
<h3> </h3>
<li> </li>
<p> </p>
<br>
<b> </b>
<i> </i>
Meaning
Heading 1 (large heading)
Heading 2 (sub heading)
Heading 3 (small sub heading)
List (like bullet lists)
Paragraph
Line break (move text to next line)
Bold
Italic
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Example
<h1> Text </h1>
<h2> Text </h2>
<h3> Text </h3>
<li> Text </li>
<li> Text </li>
Text <br>
<b> Text </b>
<i> Text </i>
To set the rest of the tags required by the question you should do the following:
1. Highlight the text that needs to be set
to style <h2>
2. Access the web page HTML code by
clicking the Code tab
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1. Repeat this with all of the other tags required for task 12
2. Your finished task should look like this:
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Task 13 Open an existing web page and use its contents on HOMEPAGE.htm
Open SPECIMEN3.HTM. Place the contents of SPECIMEN3.HTM below the table of
HOMEPAGE.HTM to create a menu
The menu should be inserted as a new table with a border size of 0
Set the text to style h2
13.1 - Opening SPECIMEN3.HTM and moving contents How to
do it:
Opening the specimen3.htm web page:
Sometimes your examination task may ask you to open existing web pages that have
already been started. To do this you need to find files with the .htm extension (.htm
is the file name given to web pages):
1. Click File
2. Click Open
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This task requires us to simply copy the table found in SPECIMEN3.HTM and paste it
into the correct position underneath the table in HOMEPAGE.HTM.
7. The table from SPECIMEN3 will appear underneath the main table in
HOMEPAGE:
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Use table properties to check that the table borders are set to 0:
The question said that the menu table borders should be set to 0. To do this we
need to access Table Properties:
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7. Check that the link has been set (it should turn blue and underlined):
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NOTE:
You can also click F12 from within FrontPage to preview your web pages.
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6. Open the web page in Preview Mode and test that the link opens the correct
website and that it opens in a new window:
Hyperlink takes us to
an external website
New hyperlink
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6. Open the web page in Preview Mode and test that the link opens the correct
website and that it opens in a new window:
Hyperlink takes us to
an external website
External website opens
in a new window
Image based
hyperlink
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1. Open HOMEPAGE.HTM
2. Position your mouse curser at the
top left of the web page
3. Click Insert
4. Click Bookmark
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4. Click Bookmark
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1. Save HOMEPAGE.HTM
2. Open the web page in Preview Mode and click the text Top of page to check
that the anchor is working properly. If everything is correct, the text should be
set as a hyperlink (blue and underlined) and the link should move you to the
top of the page when it is clicked:
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The image editor that is used in my school is currently Adobe Photoshop but this
will vary from school to school.
Photoshop can be used to open and edit all the main types of images including:
.JPG
.GIF
.PNG
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1. Click Image
2. Click Image Size
NOTE:
We need to uncheck the Constrain Proportions tick box before we enter the new width and
height because this image was required to be distorted when compared to its original size.
If we were required to keep the original dimensions we would have ticked the Constrain
Proportions box.
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73
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Original Image
Resized Image
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Save the image with the correct file name and with a file type of .JPEG:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Now lets see what you have remembered. You should be able to carry out the
above tasks by yourself. If you run into trouble you can always refer back to the
tasks in this guide that cover the above problems.
After you have completed this task, SPECIMEN2.HTM should look like this:
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Independent work - Create a second style sheet for use with SPECIMEN2.HTM
Create a second style sheet named style2
Set the following styles:
READ ME:
See if you can create and attach this style sheet independently. Notice how the
colours in this task are not as straight forward as red, green, blue etc. You are
sometimes required to use precise shades of colours.
For help with these colours read pages 57 62 below.
SPECIMEN2.HTM should look like this when you have created the style sheet and
attached:
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R
0
G
0
B
0
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R
F
G
F
B
F
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R
8
G
0
B
0
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And so on.
The other possible shades of RGB colours that you may be asked to create are
summarised below:
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Task 18 Print web pages in both browser view and HTML code view
Print HOMEPAGE.HTM as it is viewed in your browser.
Print a copy of HOMEPAGE.HTM source code.
Use a highlighter pen to show the area of the source code which attaches the first
style sheet to the web page.
Repeat the above tasks for SPECIMEN2.HTM.
Examination questions always require you to print off 2 versions of your web pages:
1. A copy of the web page as it appears in a browser
2. A copy of the HTML source code.
18.1 - Printing web pages as they appear in a browser
How to do it:
1. Open HOMEPAGE.HTM in preview mode
(double click the icon in your folder or press
F12 from within FrontPage.
2. Click File
3. Click Print
NOTE:
Check that your printout is complete and that
your whole web page can be seen clearly.
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3. Click File
4. Click Print
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Section of HTML
code to highlight
NOTE:
To find the style sheet link in the code you should look for the name of your style sheet.
For example my style sheet was called STYLE.CSS.
Repeat steps 18.1 18.2 for SPECIMEN2.HTM..
END OF GUIDE
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