Classroom Set-Up
Install Microsoft FrontPage2002 on the instructor computer and each
student workstation. The exact installation will depend on whether
you're using the stand-alone version or the version that comes with
Office XP. For the first course in the series, it is not necessary to
install FrontPage on a Web server, however, the course manual does show
screen shots and how to open files using FrontPage in conjunction with
a Web server. Microsoft used to provide a free Web server, MS Personal
Web Server (PWS), on their site, but as of this writing it has been
removed from the site. PWS is on the Windows 98 installation CD and
other server software may or may not be on Windows 2000 and Windows
XP CDs -- depending on your exact version and where the CD was obtained
(i.e., through a reseller or off the shelf). If you are able to obtain
Web server software it should installed before you install FrontPage,
as FrontPage will detect the server software and configure itself appropriately.
NOTE: The FrontPage 2002 server extensions do not work with PWS,
so you'll need to install with a server software that's compatible with
the latest extensions, for information on those servers go to: http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/.
Besides the FrontPage2002 installation, the exercises depend upon a
Web browser being installed. Most of the screen captures were
taken using Internet Explorer 5.5. See Lesson 3, FrontPage
Overview, for more information on installing the software. If at
all possible, try to install a second Web browser on the student workstations,
such as NetscapeNavigator.
There are two types of support files for this course: individual files
andWebs. A few of the exercises depend upon opening or inserting files
that residein a folder called "Fp1". Other exercises have the students
openexisting FrontPage Webs for them to work on.
Downloadthe
support file, which contains both types of files. That file is compressed
and must be uncompressed using WinZip. Once the file is uncompressed,
you will find two folders inside the main folder: "fp2000,part1" (Note:
The course files did not change from the previous version, thus the
folder is still called fp2000 -- if you downloaded the previous version
there's no need to download again). One is the"Fp1" folder containing
the individual files. The second folder is called "Webs" and contains
the student FrontPage Webs. Simply copy the"Fp1" folder to each student's
workstation (the exercises assume itwill be in the root directory: C:\Fp1).
The Webs must be imported (i.e.,you can not just copy them to
the student workstation to open them in FrontPage)into FrontPage.
Here is how to import the Webs:
- Copy the "Webs" folder to each workstation or if you have a
networked classroom, set up access to that folder from one PC.
- Open FrontPage2002
- Click File > New > Web....
- Select Import Web Wizard.
- Type Example_Web for the name of the Web and click
OK.
- Browse to or type in the folder where the Webs reside and locate
the "Example_Web" folder. For example, if you installed the files
on the hard drive you would go to: C:\fp2000,part1\Webs\Example_Web.
Check the "Include subfolders" box (very important),
then click Next.
- Click Next to have all of the files imported.
- Click Finish to import the Web.
- Click on the Open FrontPage Web button to import
the second Web that is needed for the course.
- Repeat the process of importing using Tavern for
the name of the Web and locating the files for importing in the C:\fp2000,part1\Webs\Tavern
folder.
Tips on Instructing the Course
The following are a few tips for instructors. Most are simple
suggestions onhow to extend a few of the exercises, should you have more
time.
Lesson 1:
- Be sure to ask the students what HTML experience they have, because
you may be able to skip most of lesson 1 if they already have experience
and spend more time using FrontPage.
Lesson 3:
- As it mentions on page 3-20, you can also spell check across an
entire Web. You might want to have students conduct a cross-Web spell
check.
- In Exercise 3-10: Changing the Page Title, you might want
to have the students also change the name of the "Directions" page to
"Directions to Olde Time Tavern."
- You could have students insert horizontal lines in all of the
"Tavern" Web documents in Exercise 3-12: Inserting and Editing
Horizontal Lines.
- For Exercise 3-14: Editing the HTML Tags, you may want to
have students type in a comment, which is another tag that FrontPage
does not normally use (it does have a comment feature, but it uses a
WebBot, not the standard HTML comment tag <!-- comment text -->).
Lesson 4:
- Add an exercise where students drag and drop (page 5-11) an image
onto one of the pages. One suggestion would be to go to http://www.clipart.com/ , where there
are many links to clipart or go to this
page, which contains food items that can be used with the "Our
Recipes" document.
- Add an exercise where students copy and paste an image into one of
the pages. You could open clipart in PowerPoint or other graphics
program, then copy and paste.
Lesson 5:
- Along with linking to a Web page (Exercise 5-2) and an E-mail
address (Exercise 5-3), have students create a link to an FTP or Gopher
site.
- Insert and image and have students create a link from a single
image.
Lesson 6:
- You may want to show a site, such as http://www.abcnews.com/, or have the
students create a table that is used to split up the content into
several columns.
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