Microsoft FrontPage Practical No. 2

Creating more pages in your Web site and linking to those pages.

A website usually consists of many pages, all linked together. You will now learn how to add more pages to your web site and link them together. Links to other pages in your website are called local links as opposed to global links which are links to pages on other websites.

1. Start MS FrontPage.
2. On a new blank page write the following and then change the style to heading 1
   • My favourite links
3. Save this file as: favourites on drive h: (Remember, do NOT save it in a folder) (Staff: drive W: in your own folder)
4. Go on to a new line and then select the numbering button from the toolbar.
5. Enter in the names (not the URL adresses - these will be hidden behind the names shortly) of one or more sites that you are interested in. (If you don't know of any sites go and search for a few now, or else use the examples at the bottom)
6. Link these names to the URL addresses of the sites using the technique you learned in the last lesson.  
7. Turn off the line numbering and write the following text on a line on its own: Back to my Home Page
8. Now select the text you have just typed (Back to My Home Page) and create the following hyperlink: index.htm It is important when creating this link to get rid of the http:// that automatically pops up where you type the link. This is because it is what is called a local link which is located in the same place in the Internet as the file that is linked to it. When you have a local link like this you don't have to give the complete URL, just the name of the file.
9. Save the page.
10. Open a new copy of your browser (Internet Explorer) and type in the following URL in the Address box above: http://studentweb.itsligo.ie/engineering/class/studentID/favourites.htm (remember to substitute your own studentID and class. ( - IT Sligo staff use http://www.itsligo.ie/staff/username/favourites.htm)
11. Check all the links in your page (especially the link to your home page)
12. If it worked, go back to FrontPage and close this page down (File | Close) 
13. Open the web page you created in Practical No 1:  index.htm on drive h: (in your web page editor - FrontPage of course)
14. Somewhere on this page write the following on a line on its own: My Favourite Web Sites
15. Create a hyperlink from that line to: favourites.htm (local link, not a global one so remember to get rid of the http:// before the name of the file: favourites.htm)
16. Save the file and test that it works (in the other Internet Explorer window, type in the URL for your home page: http://studentweb.itsligo.ie/engineering/class/studentID (Remember to substitute for class and studentID)
    • Check that you can link to your favourites page and then back again to your Home page.

What you should have learned from the above is that if you wish to create a link to another web page that you have created, you don't necessarily have to write the complete URL: (http://studentweb.itsligo.ie/school/class/studentID/favourites.htm. Just store the other file in the same folder and link to the name of the file: (favourites.htm). The advantage of using local links is that if you ever move you complete website to another server, you do not have to change the local links. However, if you written the complete URL for every internal link in your website, you would have to go and change every one of them.

Assignment 2.

1. If you have not done this in the earlier "World Wide Web" practical (Part 2 - Searching the Web), search the internet for any pages that have some link with your course: (e.g. construction, architecture, engineering) and write down the complete URLs for those pages as well as the names (and/or descriptions ) of those pages (2 will do)
2. Create a new web page with a heading like this: Construction Web Sites (or whatever you are studying) and save it in a file called professional.
3. Type in the names of the sites you found as a numbered list.
4. Link these web site names to the URLs that you wrote down.
5. Below the list create a link back to your home page.
6. Save the file and test it.
7. Update your Home Page so that it contains a hyperlink to your page called professional.htm
8. Save and test your Home Page again.

Important note

If you are having problems with the above it is probably worth reminding you of the difference between the links in this exercise and the previous one. The previous practical was about linking your page to other pages anywhere in the world. These links always start with http// are are called global links. However, the links in this exercise are to other files on the same disk drive (h:) and are called local links. The main source of problems in creating these links is to forget to remove the http:// when you are creating the link.

Make sure to save your work.