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Classroom Set-Up
Install Microsoft FrontPage98 on the instructor computer and each student
workstation. Besides the FrontPage98 installation, the exercises depend upon a
Web browser being installed. Most of the screen captures were taken using
Internet Explorer 3.0. 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
Netscape Navigator.
There are two types of support files for this course: individual files and
Webs. A few of the exercises depend upon opening or inserting files that reside
in a folder called "Fp1". Other exercises have the students open
existing FrontPage Webs for them to work on.
Download the support file, which
contains both types of files. That file is compressed and must be uncompressed
using WinZip 6.2 (or later) for Windows95.
Once the file is uncompressed, you will find two folders inside the main
folder: "fp98,part1". 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 it will 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 FrontPage98
- At the Start Up dialog box, choose Create a New FrontPage
Web, then click OK.
- Select Import an Existing Web.
- 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:\fp98,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:\fp98,part1\Webs\Tavern folder.
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Tips on Instructing the Course
The following are a few tips for instructors. Most are simple suggestions on
how 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:
- In Exercise 3-5: Inserting Character Styles, you may want to point
out or have students use the Bold and Italic in the "Special Styles"
tab (it mentions earlier that FrontPage normally uses <STRONG> and
<EM> instead of <B> and <I>).
- As it mentions on page 4-18, 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 (page 5-12) 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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