FrontPage Express is a Web-page editor which helps you add HTML tags to your web pages and gives you full access to the power of HTML in a familiar, easy-to-use desktop interface. Creating a web page in FrontPage Express is as easy as creating a document in your favorite word processing program. You don't need to learn or memorize HTML tags. The tags you need to format text, add graphics, and insert hyperlinks are listed on the toolbar. You can view the html tags if you want to, or you can work only on the FrontPage Express screen. To start FrontPage Express, click Start, point to Network Programs and then click FrontPage Express.

Suppose you start with a word document. Simply go to file save as HTML. Once you've saved the word document in HTML, you can open it in FrontPage Express and then modify it by adding links, graphics, animated gifs, backgrounds, scroll bars, video inserts. You can always just start from a blank page in FrontPage and add your own formatting by using the menu options and the buttons on the toolbar.

Building a web page is like traveling. You start with a general destination, link the side trips as you go, and apply a design (music, graphics, Powerpoint presentations, and details) that sets the mood for the travel experience.

• The journey's guide is supplied by parts A-I found on the Midterm Unit Assessment I-search handout.
• The details (B-C) are components, like the blocks of text you enter or the graphic files (like PowerPoint) you insert, that make up the bulk of the page.
• The design is the colors and backgrounds you select to set a mood or convey an image.

Web pages are put together by combining different components. The finished web page you see in a browser is actually a text file that contains the text and HTML tags, along with separate graphic, sound, or video files. The HTML file you save contains the overall structure of the page, the text, and tags pointing to the filenames of the graphic, sound, or video files you've included on the page.

The components on your page should work together to make your page a pleasant place to visit and to relay the information you want readers to have. You can do several things to achieve these goals:

• Add pictures or PowerPoint presentation links to help break up long passages of text, and to illustrate what you're saying in the text.
• Include links that lead to the next page or related subjects, to help guide readers through your web site.
• Place horizontal lines in the text to mark the beginning of a new topic.
• Present text in different formats to add visual interest to the page and avoid long narratives.
• Break up long pages into several shorter ones, both to make them faster to load, and to let users zoom in more quickly on the material they want.

Graphics are the pictures, buttons, arrows, or other art that you add to web pages to illustrate the text or provide quick ways to navigate around the site.

Two graphic formats are usually used in web pages:

• GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, is the most widely used format and can be read by most browsers. GIF is good to use for buttons, icons, line art, and other simple images.
• JPEG, or Joint Photographic Experts Group, was designed for more intricate graphics, and it's a good choice to use for photographs.

To add a graphic to your page and align text around the graphic, follow these steps in Front Page Express

1. Click the Insert Image button on the toolbar. (You can also choose Insert | Image.) If you know the graphic's filename or URL, type it in the Image dialog box. If you don't know the filename, click the Browse button to look for the file. When you locate the file, select the filename and click Open. The graphic appears on your page.
2. To change the alignment option, right-click the graphic and select Image Properties. In the Image Properties dialog box, click the Appearance tab. Click the Alignment down-arrow and make your selection. Click OK.

Hyperlinks or links, take you to other places. When you click a hyperlink, you move to another area of the page, jump to a completely different web page, or even access another resource on the Internet.

If you've used hyperlinks as the reader of a web page, you probably were grateful that the author included the links on the page. As the author of your own page, it's important to continue this tradition and provide your readers with links to other pages at your site, or to pages at other sites.

A hyperlink can be included in a line of text or added as a jump on a graphic. To insert a hyperlink in the text, click the Create Or Edit Hyperlink button on the toolbar, and enter the destination address. (You can also choose Insert | Hyperlink.) Remember that this is case sensitive.

Linking PowerPoint presentations does not require you to save the ppt as html. Simply place the completed PowerPoint file into you folder. Create a hyperlink with the file name you have given to your PowerPoint followed by dot ppt.

Whenever you create or modify a web page, you should test the page to make sure it looks the way you want it to look and to be sure all the links work. You can test your page without publishing it on the Web. When you click a link that requires Internet access, you either are prompted to connect to the Internet or receive an error message stating that the linked page cannot be found.

To test your page in a browser, open Internet Explorer. Select Work Offline under File and File Open. Check open as a web folder and browse to the folder you've created clicking on your index page, then click OK. The click that you would like to view default instead YES. Now test your links, graphics etc. Scroll down through the page to be sure it looks all right. Try each link to make sure the destinations are correct. You can't make changes in the browser; to modify your page, go back to FrontPage Express, enter the changes, and save the page again.

To test your page, simply go to the folder you've created with your FrontPage files and click on your index page. Now test your links, graphics etc. Scroll down through the page to be sure it looks all right. Try each link to make sure the destinations are correct. You can't make changes in the browser; to modify your page, go back to FrontPage Express, enter the changes, and save the page again.