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Faculty Staff FrontPage and other Workshops are offered for ALL Faculty and Staff, Full and Part-Time. Please visit http://www.gsw.edu/~oiit/courses.shtml to check classes offered or contact Lovely Lewis at 229-931-2969 for more information.

In order to use your web site account you need to have Microsoft FrontPage installed on your computer.

For this tutorial let us assume:

 

  1. Open Microsoft FrontPage. You can do it in two basic ways:
    • Click on the Start button in the lower left corner of your screen.
      Choose Programs, Microsoft FrontPage
    • Or you can click on the shortcut button located on the Microsoft Office toolbar and/or on your desktop.
  2. Chose File select Open Web.
  3. Provide web name (http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/jdow in our case), click Open.
  4. Provide user name and password.

     

  5. Switch to the Folders View and double click on the index.html file.

     
  6. Your screen should look similar to one below (Page View).

     
  7. Edit information.
    • To copy files from your computer to web folder: copy the file from your computer, switch to the folder view in FrontPage, paste the file in appropriate folder.
    • To paste images: copy the image and paste it in the page (like you do in MS Word), or do it the same way as files.
    • To edit hyperlinks: right click hyperlink, select hyperlink properties.
    • To insert hyperlink: highlight text, from the main menu select insert hyperlink, select file or existing webpage, provide address.
  8. Save the file. Answer yes to all questions about images.
  9. Close the web.
  10. Check http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/jdow (substitute jdow with your web address). It is very useful to check it not only on your computer.
  11. Contact Tim Faircloth at tpf@gsw.edu or 5076 if you have more questions

 

 
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