Text

Entering, editing, and formatting text in FrontPage is very similar to how you probably already know how to do it in Word or other word processors. Any differences reflect the fact that a Web editor such as FrontPage must work within the limitations of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the basic language of the Web.

Enter text by typing it. When you complete a paragraph, press the Enter key. HTML by default puts an extra blank line between paragraphs. You can change this, but for our purposes here, it isn't necessary. Edit text in all the usual ways: selecting a word and retyping it, using the backspace and delete keys to remove material, and so on. Format your text by selecting what you want to change and using the Bold, Italic, and Color buttons, changing the size, using the alignment (left, center, right) and so forth. It's pretty much the same as Word.

Links

One important thing you will want to do is enter links to other pages. If you are using one of the templates, then the links from one page to another in your WebQuest are already there. Just leave them alone. Still, you will want to link to your Web resources (for example, in your Process) page.

Here's one easy way to do that:

• Open the page in FrontPage.
• Leaving FrontPage running, go to your Web browser (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer) and find the page that you want to link to. For example, perhaps you want to link to the FrontPage page on Microsoft's website. You would go there with your browser.
• Find the address box at the top of the page where the address of the page is displayed. In this case (as of this writing anyway) that address is http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010858021033.aspx
• Select that address and copy it. The easiest way to do this is to hold down the Ctrl key and press C once.
• Go back to FrontPage, where your page is still open.
• Put your insertion bar at the point on the page where you want the link to appear.
• Press the Ctrl key and press V once to paste the address onto the page.
• Press the space bar once. You will notice that the link is now not just text, but is an actual working link.
• That's it!

You might want people to click on something more meaningful and easier to read than the link address itself. To make that happen, do this:

• Get the address in the same way that is outlined above.
• Back in FrontPage, type the text that you want people to click on. Perhaps it is something like "Get more information about FrontPage"
• Select that text with your mouse.
• Look up near the top of the FrontPage window and find the icon that looks like a little globe with a chain in front of it. It should be nearer the right side of the top line of icons.
• Click on that icon.
• Make sure that the the button on the left that reads "Existing file or web page" is highlighted.
• Paste your link address into the long white box near the bottom of that dialog box.
• Click OK

There are many other things that you can do in FrontPage, but text and links are the two most important ones for making your WebQuest.