In order to help you create professional-looking and beautifully designed webpages, FrontPage provides a variety of webpage templates (templates: a set of pre-designed text and graphic formats that can be used to create new webpages and websites. After you create a page or website using a template, you can customize it. ) so that you can quickly create web pages with various layouts and functions. For example, you can use the template of FrontPage to create user registration pages, message boards, feedback forms and pages with search forms.
You can use themes to create web pages with consistent design. The theme contains unified design elements with color scheme, including fonts, graphics, backgrounds, navigation bars, horizontal lines and other web page elements.
If you want to design and lay out your own web page, you can start with a blank web page and then do one or more of the following:
Use frames, tables, layouts, or absolute positioning to accurately locate text and graphics on web pages.
Add text, graphics, page banners, tables, forms, hyperlinks, and other page elements.
Add dynamic elements, such as Flash content, video, sound or GIF animation.
Add changeable content or functions, such as subtitles (subtitle component: the area on a web page that displays horizontally scrolling text messages. ), counter (counter component: a component in FrontPage that is used to track the number of visitors to the World Wide Web site. ), timestamps, web page transitions, interactive buttons, extensions using dynamic HTML (DHTML: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), adding multimedia, database access and object models, which programs can use to change the style and attributes of page elements (objects) and replace existing elements (objects) with new ones. ) expression.
Apply styles or use style sheets to format text.
Use colors or pictures to set the background of web pages.
Create your own page template using dynamic page templates, which can include pages with page settings, formats and page elements.
You can also design from the graphic appearance of the website (called tracing). Therefore, we can create the appearance model of the web page image in the graphic program and use it as an intuitive reference to recreate and describe the web page design.
Edit in FrontPage.
You don't need to know how to encode in HTML to use FrontPage. You can edit a web page just like in a word processor (type text, format text, and add graphics, tables, and other web page elements). FrontPage will add corresponding HTML tags in the background, and you only need to edit the webpage in design view.
However, if you want to be familiar with HTML or edit HTML code directly, you can also use Code View, which shows the HTML code of a web page. Or display a split view of the code and design views.
If you are familiar with HTML, you can display HTML tags in code view and write and edit them yourself. With the option of creating and maintaining optimized code in FrontPage, you can create clear HTML and easily delete unnecessary code.
In FrontPage, you can use Extensible Markup Language (XML) (Extensible Markup Language (XML): a shortened form of Standard Markup Language (SGML), which developers can use to create custom markup, thus providing flexibility for organizing and providing information. ) to supplement, not replace, your HTML. You can view or edit files, apply standard formats to the code structure of XML files, view the XML directory tree, and create custom displays of XML data in web pages. For example, you can create a web page to display the data in an XML file, format the data, and apply filtering, sorting, and conditional formatting to display the data in the desired way.