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Classroom Set-up
Install FrontPage 98 and Microsoft Image Composer on the instructor and each
of the student PC's, which are both found on the installation CD. You
must also install Internet Explorer
4.0 or later on every PC (note that the copy on the installation CD is
version 3.0). The majority of the exercises will not work unless that
version of Internet Explorer is installed. You may also want to install
Netscape Communicator 4.0 to show
differences between the browsers.
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 "Fp3". 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,part3". One is the "Fp3" folder containing
the individual files. The second folder is called "netnews" and
contains the student FrontPage Web used throughout this course. Simply copy the
"Fp3" folder to each student's workstation (the exercises assume it
will be in the root directory: C:\Fp3). The Web must be imported (i.e., you can
not just copy it to the student workstation to open them in FrontPage) into
FrontPage.
Here is how to import the Web:
- Copy the "netnews" 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 Existing Web.
- Type Net News for the name of the Web and click
OK.
- Browse to or type in the folder where the Webs reside and locate the
"netnews" folder. For example, if you installed the files on the hard
drive you would go to: C:\fp98,part3\netnews . 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.
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Instructor Tips
Lesson 1:
- There is an appendix with all of the style properities, you may want to
experiment with a few properties not covered in the exercises, such as line
height, letter spacing and indent.
- The pages under "Features" on the home page can be useful for
applying extra properties as they are not changed much during this or the other
exercises.
Lesson 2:
- Have students insert the time and date on pages by choosing
Timestamp... from the
Insert menu. This is another
FrontPage Component that uses JavaScript to accomplish the timestamping.
Lesson 3:
- Instead of just pointing out Figure 3-1 (Disney Channel), have students add
that channel so they see what a channel is all about. You can do that in
Internet Explorer 4.0 by clicking on the Channels button, then
selecting the Disney channel on the Channel Bar or going to
http://www.disney.com and clicking Add
Active Channel button.
- You might also want to have students re-open the channel.cdf file to start
up the Wizard and have them make a few changes then save the file again.
Lesson 4:
- You might want to have students save the file much sooner than is covered
in one of the exercises in case there are any "accidents." The
whole saving process is not covered until the end because there are so many
options, but you might explain that they are going to save the file in
Microsoft Image Composer format (.MIC) and more will be explained later about
saving.
- Have fun! There is so much you can do with Image Composer that after
the students insert a few images have the students play with the effects.
You might suggest that they use the flower clipart to apply special effects.
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