Using FrontPage Express to Create, Edit & Organize Web Pages

Inserting Graphic Images

This page has the instructions for this exercise. In addition, you will use it to modify the appearance and content of the page.

Getting Some Images

FrontPage Express clip art (WOOPS: clip art not yet available in the lab... skip this for now)

Take a look at Insert -> Image... and choose the Clip Art tab. The category drop-down menu organizes some small collections of clip art images that you can insert on your Web page.

Images from other pages

You can "lift" a graphic image from any web page. There are serious copyright implications, so make sure that you have permission before you do this.

Grabbing an image: Click on a desired image with the right mouse button. Choose the Save Picture and put the image file into the proper folder.

You can get some practice by clicking on this hyperlink to get to a page with copyright-free images that will give you some practice.

Get this Page to Work On

You are starting by looking at this page with the Internet Explorer.  In order to practice with FrontPage Express, you will want to Save a copy (File -> Save As).  Then start-up FrontPage Express and Open the file you have saved (FrontPad4.htm).

Insert an Icon

The following table has some categories of information. Look in the FrontPage Express clip art collection (Hint: the instructions are given above) in the icons category or get an icon from the set of demo images (Hint: instructions for this were also given above).

There are four steps in placing an image you have saved in a library:

• Make sure the image saved in the folder in which you are saving your pages. You need to know the name of this image.  The name will end in either .GIF or .JPG. That extension is part of the name you will use, such as hand.gif.
• Click on the page in the general location where you want the image.
• Click the image icon in the top tool bar (it is the small yellow landscape picture with a triangle on the top left edge).
• Two menus will come up. The first one will be asking for you to choose a file.  Click on Cancel to get rid of this menu.   The menu below will have a place where you can type a URL. Type just the file name (like hand.gif).  Click OK.

You might not be able to see the image you inserted. When you run the browser, it should be there.

Put an appropriate icon in the table in front of the description. Feel free to add categories, and corresponding icons, to this table.

	This is a link to my homework
	Pay attention to this category
	This will take you away to ...
	Nothing particular, just another item in a list
	Look more closely at this topic

Go back to the starting web page to get your next assignment, Creating Hyperlinks to Connect Pages.

last updated: September 16, 1998 10:01 AM