Using FrontPage Express to Create, Edit & Organize Web Pages
Creating Hyperlinks to Connect Pages
This page has the instructions for this exercise. In addition, you will use it to modify the appearance and content of the page.
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 (FrontPage5.htm).
Hyperlinks
Jumping from some highlighted text to another web page is an example of a hyperlink. It is a hidden Web address behind the text that gets you to the new location.
Hyperlinks are not limited to text. You can also hyperlink an image, such as a clip-art icon, to another Web page.
This is the key behind the Web's ease of use. All you need to do to move around is to click the links.
Looking at Hyperlinks
The line of text below is has a hyperlink. You can tell because it appear to be different (how different depends on how your browser's options have been set).
You can also tell by moving your mouse over the link. Do it while looking at the lower left corner of the screen. When you are on the hyperlink you'll see the Web address appear below the FrontPage Express editing window.
The hyperlink doesn't work when you are in FrontPage Express, since it is an editor, not a Web browser.
Making some Hyperlinks
You will use this Web page as an index to the rest of your pages.
Each of the pages you've modified (except this one) is listed below by both its title and file name.
Highlight (by clicking and dragging) a title, then click on the hyperlink button (the small world with a chain link).
In the URL window, type the following line after the http://, substituting the italicized text.
www2.hawaii.edu/~yourunixidhere/filename.htm
where ~yourunixidhere is really your unix id (like carolchen) and filename.htm is the name of the file to which you will link (the name in the parentheses following the name of the topic, such as frontpad1.htm).
Be careful to not have any blanks in the URL.
Click OK to close the dialog box when you have finished entering the URL.
Topic (filename)
When you are done making the links, the topics should appear to be different. You can check if the link looks correct by moving your mouse over a link and looking at the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Save this file when you have made links to all the topics.
Publishing Your Web Pages
Make sure you have saved this file (and the other FrontPage Express files you've worked on) to your local hard disk.
Setup Your Unix Account for Web Pages
Publish Everything to the Unix Web Page Directory (Folder)
Move your files (both Web pages and all images) to the Web server (it is called "publishing your files") with the following step:
Confirm that Everything Worked
Check your web pages by typing the following URL into Internet Explorer.
www2.hawaii.edu/~yourunixidhere/frontpad5.htm
with ~yourunixidhere being substituted by your real unix id.
This page should appear in the browser. You can then click on the hyperlinked topics and see your other pages.
For Web pages that you store in other projects, you'll simply substitute the name of the starting page.
One quick note: if you have revised a Web page and FTPed it again to your Unix account, you may have to click on the browser's refresh button to see the latest version.
Congratulations! You're now a web author.
last updated: September 17, 1998 12:41 PM