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Web Design with FrontPage

Overview / who should attend and why?

An effective website is central to the marketing and operations of any company. This course teaches you the basics of web design and maintenance using Microsoft FrontPage and will give you the confidence to take on website development or update projects.

This course is designed for delegates who prepare or update web pages, public websites or intranets. 

Course Objectives

• Learn the skills necessary to follow a project through from an initial idea to the creation and publishing processes.
• Increase traffic to your site.
• Confidence to utilise the FrontPage features.

Course Content

World-wide basics:

• How the World Wide Web works
• URLs and domain names
• Web servers

Microsoft FrontPage

• Introduction
• Preparation
• Working from a brief
• Producing a site map

Preparation

• Working from a brief
• Producing a site map.
• Shared borders and navigation bars

Creating a new website

• Starting a new web
• Creating and saving pages
• Saving page properties
• Importing and exporting text.

Website graphics

• Adding graphics
• Making image background transparent
• Types of image files
• Pixels and screen resolutions

Hyperlinks

• Links between pages
• Links to external sites
• Links to e-mail and other files
• Links to a mid-point in the page

Using tables

• Adding tables and setting table properties

Other document formats

• Converting from Office documents

FrontPage bots

• Include bot, site search bot and page counter bot.

Publishing the Website

• Upload to FrontPage servers
• Using FTP
• Test and debugging
• Updating the site – adding pages
• Checking for and fixing broken lines

Techniques for promoting your site

• Site statistics

Costs / Duration and Location

• The cost of this training course is £825 + VAT 
• The duration is two days 9:00 till 16:00
• Various dates and locations see course calendar or contact us for further information