Usin FrontPages to create a Webpage

Visit the site below and work through the tutorial. The tutorial includes some simple exercises that assist you in creating a simple website. As you complete the tutorial answer the questions below.

 http://office.microsoft.com/training/Training.aspx?AssetID=RC011140711033&CTT=6&Origin=RC011140711033

1. What two steps are recommended in planning your site?
Establish a goal and keep it simple
Know your audience

2. What is a web server?
A Web server is a computer that runs special serving software. That software "serves" HTML pages and assosciated files when requestes by a client, such as a Web browser.

3. Provide examples of some features that FrontPage Server Extensions provide for a website?

- Graphics
- Documents
- Multimedia

4. How do you put your website on a web server?
-To put your site on a Web server, you publish it
-Publishing generally means copying all of the files to a remote location on a server
-Mostly, the remote location is either a HTTP or an FTP path

5. FrontPage has two key functions – website design and …..?

Management

6. What are some commonly used file names for Home Pages accepted by servers?

Defult.html
Index.html
Index.htm

 7. What is FrontPage Metadata and which two folders contain these files?

FrontPage metadata is information about your FrontPage Web site that makes managing the site possible.
-the_vti_cnf folder and the_vti_pvt folder

8. There are two basic types of website can you create in FrontPage; what are they and how do they differ?
Disk-based: A site you create on your local hard drive. After you design and work on the site, you can later publish it to a remote location like a Web server.

Server-based: A site you create and work with directly on a Web server.