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How to use Microsoft FrontPage 2000 - Introduction; Creating a New Document; Opening a Document; Saving Documents; Working With PHP Documents in FrontPage
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Contents Introduction Creating a New Document Opening a Document Saving Documents Working With PHP Documents in FrontPage Page Properties Inserting Bookmarks Introduction Microsoft FrontPage is an HTML editor, which is included as part of the Microsoft Office application suite.  If you have Microsoft Office installed, FrontPage was probably installed along with the other applications i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.  FrontPage is a WYSIWYG editor, which stands for 'what you see is what you get'.  This means that FrontPage displays (and allows you to edit) documents as they would appear in a web browser. This tutorial will show you some common techniques used when editing documents in FrontPage 2000 (version 4.0). Creating a New Document To create a new document, click on the 'File' menu and choose 'New' > 'Page...' or press Ctrl+N.  The New dialog box will be displayed: The New Dialog Box Generally, you will choose the 'Normal Page' template to create a new blank document, unless you want to use one of the other templates.  Note that pressing Ctrl+N instead of using the menu will open the 'Normal Page' template without displaying the dialog box.  Clicking on the 'New Page' toolbar button will also open the 'Normal Page' template.  Starting FrontPage will also display a new document. Opening a Document To open a document, click on the 'File' menu and choose 'Open...' or press Ctrl+O.  The Open dialog box will be displayed. The file types supported by FrontPage are: htm, html, shtml, shtm, stm, asp, css, rtf, txt, doc, wk1, wk3, wk4, xls, xlw, mcw, wps, wri It is possible to open documents from the WWW i.e. you can enter a web address into the Open dialog box. You can also use the 'Open' toolbar button to open documents. It is possible to open and work with PHP documents in FrontPage.  See 'Working With PHP Documents in FrontPage' below. Saving Documents To save a document, click on the 'File' menu and choose 'Save' or press Ctrl+S. Although you can open non HTML related documents, you can only save documents in the following formats: htm, html, shtml, shtm, stm, asp, css, tem, asp, htt You can also use the 'Save' toolbar button to save documents. Working With PHP Documents in FrontPage PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) documents (files ending in .php) are not supported by FrontPage 2000.  This is probably because PHP was not as popular in 2000 as it is now and also because it is not a Microsoft technology.  The .php file extension is not associated with any program in Windows by default, so the first thing to do is to associate it with the 'HTML Document' file type: In the Control Panel, open the 'Folder Options' icon Click on the 'File Types' tab Click on the 'New' button In the 'File Extension:' button type 'php' In the 'Associated File Type:' ComboBox choose 'HTML Document' Click on 'OK' on both dialog boxes Creating a New File Extension Unfortunately it is not possible to open PHP files using the 'Open' dialog box (doing so will just load the file in your browser).  Instead you will need to right-click on the file in Windows Explorer and choose 'Edit'.  If FrontPage cannot recognise the file as an HTML document, you will see this dialog box: Open File As Dialog Box Make sure the 'HTML' option is selected and press 'OK'.  To create a new PHP document, you will need to do this in Windows Explorer and then open it in FrontPage as shown above. There is just one more thing to do.  As PHP code includes characters such as '<', '>' etc, you will need to make sure that FrontPage does not automatically convert these characters to codes e.g. '&lt;', '&gt;' etc.  This would render the PHP code useless.  To do this, do the following: In FrontPage, click on the 'Tools' menu and choose 'Page Options...' Click on the 'HTML Source' tab Make sure the 'Preserve existing HTML' option is selected Click on 'OK' Occasionally, FrontPage will convert some PHP characters into HTML codes.  Click on the 'HTML' tab and check your PHP code before saving. Next - Page Properties Comments From: Steve Date: Friday, March 16, 2007 at 00:32:33 Comments: Great! I've love this white page. Thanks for the help. I'm even using Windows XP and this still works with a few modifications Thanks again Please fill in the below form if you have any comments or additional information you want to add about the above information.  If you have any questions, please visit the Forum.  Any questions sent using this form will be ignored. * - Mandatory *Name: E-mail: *Comments: *Please type the following code (your comment cannot be accepted without it): © Martin Allen 1999 - 2007.  Last updated Friday 13 April 2007 07:19:43 PM +0100.