FrontPage 97 Editor Basics

Tom Kelliher, CS 102

Oct. 13, 1997

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Quiz on Friday.

Assignment

Finish reading Chapters 1--3 of FrontPage book.

Image Properties

1. Pixels.

2. Common resolutions:
   1. 640 x 480.

   2. 800 x 600.

   3. 1024 x 768.

3. Image size.

4. How much is visible to a viewer, without scrolling?

5. Formats:
   1. GIF --- interlaced, non-interlaced. Limited to color depth of 256. Compression controversy.

   2. JPEG --- Joint Photographs Expert Group. Higher color depths.

6. Color depth. Common values:
   1. 2 --- black and white.

   2. 16 --- simple artwork.

   3. 256 --- more complex artwork, photographs.

   4. 32K and higher --- photographs and JPEG.

7. Size of the image file. Time to load.

8. In-line and external images.

9. Thumbnail images.

10. Acquiring images:
    1. Drag and drop.

    2. Right-click, Save as.

11. Copyrights.

FrontPage 97 Editor basics

Familiarize yourselves:

1. Starting new pages. Saving.

2. Opening existing pages: on disk, from the Web.

3. The various bars and buttons (Chapter 2).

4. Navigating around the page:
   1. Home

   2. End

   3. Ctrl-Home

   4. Ctrl-End

5. Select then do model.

6. Line breaks versus paragraph.

7. Selecting:
   1. Universal: drag over desired selection.

   2. Another universal: click one end, go to other end, Shift-click.

   3. Selecting a line.

   4. Selecting a word (double).

   5. Selecting a paragraph (double).

8. From the Edit menu (also toolbar): Undo, Redo.

9. Also from the Edit menu: Cut, Copy, Paste.

10. From the View menu: Format marks, HTML.