To Create A New Web

Select Web

Click on the Empty Web icon1

On the right hand side of the template chooser, note "Options." Under "Specify the location of the new web," click on "Browse" and save the web to your SCSU online storage (U or H drive) or to a disk. 2

Now it's time to organize the site.

Set Up Site Navigation

You will see a listing of folders (at this point, "_private" and "images") on your left; on your right you will see a light green area with "To create a home page..." written in the center.

FrontPage will create a Home Page for you. You can change the title for this page later, but the file name must always be index.htm (or index.html) if you want it to be the first page that visitors access on your site. FrontPage "automagically" saves this file as index.htm. Unless you know what you're doing and have a reason to do so, you should keep that file name.

Remember the flow chart that you created as part of your preparation? You're going to recreate it by doing the following:

Right click on the Home Page, select "New" and "Page." Repeat as needed. You can drag the newly created pages to create whatever hierarchy you wish.

Notice that each time you create a page, it shows up in the folder list to your left.

If you can't see the whole layout, right click on the green, Select Zoom > Size to Fit.

Did you know...
Title is the name of the page that appears on the very top of the "box" for the browser (this piece of screen real estate is sometimes called the ribbon). FrontPage also uses the page title to create banners and site navigation menus. This is not to be confused with the file name, which is the name of the actual file as it is stored in the system. A parallel is with essays that you may store in a file-- the essay you've written may be entitled"The Socioeconomic Repercussions of Wile E. Coyote in Post-Modern America," but it's saved to your hard drive as "essay2.doc."

To Rename Page Titles in Navigation Mode:

Right click on the flow chart box and select "rename." The page title (in the image to the left, "New Page 1," becomes editable text. Remember what that page title is, as you will need to remember it if you intend to rename the file. Type in the title (keep it short, unique, and precise).

Did you know...
When you click (once!) on one of the flow chart boxes, the file name appears on the bottom left ribbon.

To Rename Files in Navigation Mode:

Right click on the filename and select "rename." The entire file name (e.g., new_page_3.htm) becomes editable text. Rename file to something more sensible. Remember:

• all letters should be lower case
• numbers (or a mixture of numbers and letters) are fine!
• no spaces (you can use a hyphen or shift-hyphen [underscore])
• no * (asterisks), / or \ (slashes), # (pound signs), @ (at symbols), , (commas), . (periods or dots), ? or ! (question marks and exclamation points). Generally, avoid using any punctuation other than the hyphen or underscore when naming files.
• you must end your filename with .htm

Did you know...
The reason that some most punctuation marks are "no-no's" in file names is that many punctuation marks do double duty online as commands. For instance, "/" (forward slash) indicates a directory or file folder. Therefore, if a URL is something like http://www.southernct.edu/admissions/, your web browser is directed to go to southernct.edu and look for the admissions folder. As the beginning of the URL is "http://" your web browser will know that once it's found the admissions folder it should find the index file (e.g., index.htm, index.asp, index.php). Similarly, "@" indicates either email protocol (xyzpdq@southernct.edu) or, when used with file transfer protocol (ftp), a login (ftp://xyzpdq@southernct.edu)