Using FrontPage Express

This viewlet demonstrates the use of a few of the basic features of  FrontPage Express to make a simple Web page containing text and pictures.  After opening the program, the first thing that is done is to insert some text.

Unlike many programs, FrontPage Express does not display the selected font size.  The increase/decrease font size (large and small As) are relative.  The program offers seven font sizes, which is standard in HTML.  It opens with size 3, the default size.  The following indicates the sizes available.

The first thing that was done was to change the font used from Times New Roman to Comic Sans MS.  To choose the font, select it from the drop down menu displayed when one clicks the arrow to the right of the font selection window.

After this, the font size was increased by clicking the large "A" on the font toolbar.

The other items in this graphic are the selections for Bold, Italic, and Under lined text and the text color palette.

The final step was to center the text to be entered.  This was done before the text was entered by clicking the "Center" choice in the justification section.

Note that the text could have been entered first, then selected by dragging the cursor over it and centered by clicking the same icon.

After the text was entered, a picture was inserted.  This was done through the Insert command on the menu bar, but it could also have been done using the shortcut "Insert Picture" icon, shown below as the little snapshot icon with the arrow pointing to its upper left corner.

Although they are not used in this viewlet, the other icons in this block are (reading from left to right) undo, redo, insert WebBot Component (Include, Search, Timestamp), insert table, and insert Hyperlink.

The first image added was centered as that was the justification already selected.  The second image was left justified.  The justification of images can be changed by clicking on the image to select it, then clicking the desired justification icon.

FrontPage Express is a standalone program, not requiring FrontPage.  It was developed by Microsoft to whet users' appetites for a full-featured Web page editor.  As indicated in the viewlet, although it is no longer available as a download from Microsoft, interested users can download it from here.

To see these procedures illustrated in a viewlet go here.