With the ready-to-use Web sites included in FrontPage, you can create an instant Web site that will dazzle the masses. These ready-to-use Web sites bring new definition to the meaning of templates and range from basic one-page sites to advanced sites
with dozens of pages. This chapter discusses how to create an instant Web site that will meet your needs whether you plan to set up a complete corporate intranet or a site on the World Wide Web. Even if you do not plan to use an instant Web site, you
should read this chapter to gain an understanding of the various sites you can create to establish your Web presence.
You can create a wide range of Instant Web sites with Web templates and Web wizards. As you might expect, you build basic Webs with templates and advanced Webs with wizards. A Web template contains outlines for a specific set of pages, such as all the
pages that relate to a customer support Web. A wizard helps you automatically generate content for a complex Web, such as one that would help you build a presence on the World Wide Web.
Both Web templates and wizards contain helpful guidelines to make development of a particular type of site easier. Like page templates, the guidelines provided do not ask specific questions concerning design and layout of the page. However, they do
cover just about every major issue you should consider when developing a specific type of site, which gives you valuable insight into the specific areas your site should cover.
As you know, you create Webs in the FrontPage Explorer. The New option under the File menu has a submenu with two options: Folder and FrontPage Web. When you are in Folder View, you can use the Folder option to create a new folder in an existing Web.
When you want to base a new site on a template or wizard, use the FrontPage Web option (or press Ctrl+N), and then choose the template or wizard you want to base your site on.
Next, specify how you want to create the Web. You can create a new Web with or without using the Web server.. If you are on a networked PC, you will normally choose to create the Web using the server. The option of not using the Web server to create
the Web is helpful if you are not on a networked PC and want to create the Web on your computer's local file system.
If you choose to use the server to create the Web, you must enter the numeric IP address or host name information for the Web server on which you wish to create the Web, such as 247.15.10.5 or www.homerun.com. The address of your local networked PC is
usually localhost or 127.0.0.1. For security purposes, you can connect to a remote server using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol, which ensures you have a secure connection to the remote host.
If you do not want to use the server to create the Web, you must enter the directory path for the new Web. Click on the Browse button to open the Browser for Folder dialog box. Using this dialog box, you can search for an existing folder for the Web.
When you find the folder, select it and then click on the OK button. The path to the folder will be entered for you.
After you enter this information, select a name for your Web and click on the OK button. FrontPage either creates your Web based on a template or launches the appropriate Web wizard.
Editing Techniques for Wizard Pages
FrontPage wizards understand a whole range of editing commands, including cut, copy, paste, and undo. This allows you to select text on any wizard page and copy it to the clipboard, paste text on the clipboard into a field, and unerase text that you accidentally deleted. Here is how you can use these editing commands:
- Cut: Select the text and then press Ctrl+X. This action places text on the clipboard.
- Copy: Select the text and then press Ctrl+C. This action places text on the clipboard.
- Paste: With text on the clipboard, move to the field into which you want to paste text, and press Ctrl+V.
- Undo: You can undo a paste, cut, or other deletion of text by pressing Ctrl+Z.
Because the clipboard is a standard object, you can copy text to the clipboard in other applications and then paste it into a wizard field. For example, you can copy the company phone number from a MS Word document and paste it into a relevant wizard field.
Each instant Web contains default pages and images that you can use as a road map to help you design a terrific site. Most Webs have at least one top-level page. A top-level page, like a home page, is the page that most visitors start on and use to
access other areas of your Web.
As a designer of dozens of commercial and intranet Web sites, I was surprised to see how comprehensive the instant Webs in FrontPage really are. By using an advanced Web wizard, such as the corporate presence Web, you can literally cut days off the
development time of your Web site. In some cases, this represents thousands of dollars in time and resource savings.
To better understand how instant Webs can save you time and money, lets look at each of the Webs available in FrontPage. By examining each of the available Webs, you can gain a thorough understanding of what types of sites you can build and how the
sites are designed.
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When you create documents with templates, FrontPage automatically adds comments that guide you through the process of designing the page. To allow you to see the page as it will appear in the reader's browser, these preset comments do not appear in the figures in this chapter.
The normal and empty Webs are the most basic Webs available. If you have been following the examples in this book, you have probably already used the normal Web. When you use the normal Web, the FrontPage Explorer creates a Web with a single page based
on the normal page template. By default, the normal Web is selected when you open the New Web dialog box. To use this Web, you simply press the Enter key or the OK button without making a selection.
The empty Web, as the name implies, creates a new Web that has no contents. You can use the empty Web when you want to create a new site from scratch. However, with all the ready-to-use Webs available, I do not know why you would ever want to use this
Web.
The discussion Web wizard creates a discussion forum for your corporate intranet or Web site. Creating and managing this advanced Web is explored in Chapter 39, "Creating and Managing Discussion Groups."
Hundreds of companies have online customer support areas. An online customer support area can serve your customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Customers can access the area when they have problems, regardless of whether it is 3 a.m. or 12 noon.
The customer support Web is a fairly advanced Web, with over 20 HTML pages designed to help you provide world-class customer support. Ideally, this Web would be a separate area of a larger site and not your only presence on the Web.
The top-level page of the Customer Support Web is called the Welcome page and appears in Figure 22.1. The Welcome page, like most pages in this Web has three main sections: a header, body and footer.
Figure 22.1. The Welcome page.
An Include bot adds the standard document header to the document. You cannot update this section directly; instead, you update the associated template page. To see what page you should update, select the header by clicking on it, and then open the
Include Bot Properties box by double-clicking the left mouse button or pressing Alt+Enter. As you can see, the header includes links to all the key areas of the customer support Web. Generally, you will not want to update the header itself. (See Chapter
23, "Automation with FrontPage's Web Bots," for complete details on the Include bot.)
Unlike the other sections of the page, you canand shouldedit the body of the document. As the purpose of this page is to welcome visitors and tell them about your services, you should include 2-3 paragraphs describing the features of your
online customer support Web.
An Include bot also adds the standard document footer to the document. You should edit the footer immediately. To do this, right-click on the Include Bot and choose Open footer.htm, which opens the footer document for editing. With the footer document
open, you can edit the properties for the Include Bot and the text on the page. Start by replacing the text in brackets with text appropriate for your company. The footer page also includes a TimeStamp bot. If you do not like the style of the time stamp,
you can change this by opening the TimeStamp bot's properties box. (See Chapter 23 for complete details on the TimeStamp bot.)
The What's New page of a customer support Web has slightly a different goal and scope from the What's New page on your main Web. The page should track product updates, the availability of patches, release schedules, and other product related
information.
Figure 22.2 shows the What's New page. The page has a standard header and footer like other pages in this Web. You will want to update the body of this page immediately. The body section contains links to the download page and a technical notes page.
The easiest way to update the link text is to place the insertion point within the link text, type in your new link text, and then delete the unnecessary text. If you do not update the link text in this way, you might accidentally delete the link.
Figure 22.2. The What's New page.
A FAQ is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers. Your customer support Web should contain a comprehensive FAQ page that answers common questions that your support staff handle. You might also want to include tips and tricks that make
using your software, products, or services easier. The FAQ page included in the support Web and shown in Figure 22.3 is a starting point.
If you do not already have a list of commonly asked questions, ask your support team to help you make the list. They will probably be very glad to help you, especially when they consider how the page will make their jobs easier.
Figure 22.3. The FAQ page.
Very few software products do not have bugs. Bugs are software glitches, the worst of which cause systems to crash. The purpose of the Bugs page shown in Figures 20.4 and 20.5 is twofold. Customers should be able to report bugs they have found in the
software so you can fix them. Customers should also be able to see a list of known bugs.
Most customer support areas include a bug reporting and information page for each major product that the company produces. Ideally, you would not only list the known bugs, but would also tell the customer how to get around each bug and perhaps where to
download a patch that fixes the bug.
Figure 22.4. Customers should be able to report bugs quickly and easily.
Figure 22.5. Customers should be able to find a list of known bugs as well.
A suggestions page opens an extremely important communications channel with your customers. While you will certainly get suggestions that won't be useful, you might be surprised at how many truly wonderful ideas your customers have for enhancing your
products and improving your customer service. The Suggestion page shown in Figure 22.6 allows customers to make suggestions concerning your Web site, company, products, service, support, and even your marketing style.
Figure 22.6. Suggestion pages are a great way to learn from your customers.
The Download page provides a common area for downloading patches, updates, and other customer support related files. Beyond the standard header and footer, the page contains many sections. As Figure 22.7 shows, the first of these sections introduces
the page and provides a link to the file formats bookmark. The next section is an index for the updates, patches, and other files that the reader can download from this page. You should replace the link titles with more appropriate text.
When a reader clicks on a link in the Contents section, his browser displays the appropriate bookmark within the document, such as those shown in Figure 22.8. When providing files on the Web, it's helpful to use some form of compression to reduce
download time. This shows that you are considerate of the customer's time.
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You should provide files in at least two compressed formats if possible, such as ZIP and compressed TAR. ZIP is an extremely popular compression technique. Zipped files can be decompressed on just about any system as long as the reader has an unzip utility. The compressed tape archive (TAR) format is another popular format. While TAR utilities are available for most systems, the TAR format is primarily for readers who access the Web via a UNIX-based server.
Figure 22.7. A template for downloading updates and enhancements.
Figure 22.8. Key areas are linked from the top of the page.
No customer support Web would be complete without a discussion area in which company employees and customers can discuss your products. This area contains four pages: a home page, table of contents, search page and posting page. The home page for this
area is the same page the reader accesses when he clicks on the Discussion link from another area of the Web. The table of contents, search, and posting pages have common headers and footers designed for the discussion area.
The centerpiece of the discussion area is the page shown in Figure 22.9. On this page, readers can post material to the discussion area. All current postings to the discussion group are available from the table of contents page. The table of contents
updates whenever new material is posted. Readers can also search through the postings using a search page. (See Chapter 39 for more information.)
Figure 22.9. Posting to the Customer Support group.
The search page lets readers search through the full text of your customer support Web. Whenever you save a page or recalculate links, FrontPage creates a text index to your site. Using the Search bot and the search page, you can allow users to access
and retrieve information from this index.
The search page is partially shown in Figure 22.10. A great thing about this page is that it includes detailed information on the query language used in the search process.
Figure 22.10. Search the customer support Web.
Hidden amongst the many pages provided with the customer support Web is the technical notes page, used to describe problems and solutions. Initially, this page is accessible only from the What's New page. However, if you plan to provide technical notes
to your readers, you should add links to the page throughout the support Web. For example, you might want to create links to this page from the bug page and the download page.
The personal Web is a simple yet well-designed Web that consists of a single pageyour home page. The personal Web is primarily useful in intranet environments and as part of a large business-oriented Web site. Figure 22.11 shows the header
section of the home page, which contains an index to the page's key sections.
To understand why the page is really best-suited for your corporate intranet, you have only to look at the employee information and current project sections. As you can see from Figure 22.12, these sections ask you to list information you probably
would not want to release to the general public, such as your manager's name and the names of those you supervise.
The remaining sections on the page are good guides to the type of information you can use on any home page. Most home pages contain links to the publisher's favorite sites called a hot list. Most home pages also contain biography and contact
information. Some home pages contain personal interests and areas for comments and suggestions.
Figure 22.11. Creating a home page with the personal Web.
Figure 22.12. Watch out. Some of the information on this page might not be suitable for publishing on the Web.
The Personal Home Page Wizard helps you create a personalized home page. This wizard is an oddball and is the only wizard discussed in this chapter that you can start in the FrontPage Editor. The page created by the wizard is based on the home page
template included in the personal Web, which is why this wizard is examined in this chapter and not in the previous chapter. In fact, if you run the wizard and accept all the default values, the Personal Home Page Wizard creates a page nearly identical to
the home page in the personal Web.
There are advantages to using the Personal Home Page Wizard. When you use the wizard, you can adjust just about every aspect of the home page. You can select the sections that you want to include and exclude, change the order of the sections, adjust
the default text, and add personal information.
If you want to create an instant home page, I recommend trying both the Personal Home Page Wizard and the personal Web template. In this way, you can learn firsthand which one best fits your needs.
No matter what company or department you work in, you are probably a part of one or more projects. Your project team's goal is to get the job done, whether the job entails designing a new car, developing an application, or putting together an
advertising campaign. The project Web can help you ensure that your project stays on track and accomplishes its goals.
Just as you might not want to release information on your boss and those you supervise, you probably would not want the general public to know the status of the company projects. Thus, the project Web is another Web best-suited for the corporate
intranet. The project Web includes the following:
The top-level page of this Web is called the project home page and appears in Figure 22.13. The page provides a starting point for the project Web and lists what's new with the project. Like most pages in this Web, the project home page has three main
sections: a header, a body, and a footer.
Figure 22.13. The project home page.
An Include bot adds the standard header and footer to the document using an Include bot. You cannot update these sections directly; you update the associated template page instead. Unlike the header and footer, you can (and should) edit the body of the
document directly. Start by replacing the default text with text that is specific to your project.
You can use the members page to create a complete listing of the members of the project team. The page consists of two main sections. The first section, shown in Figure 22.14, contains an index of member names linked to the detailed listing shown in
Figure 22.15. As shown, the second section can contain photos and contact information for each member of the project team.
Figure 22.14. The index to the member page.
Figure 22.15. Member information.
The schedule page helps the project stay on track. Figure 22.16 shows part of the schedule page. The page begins with an area for a prioritized list of items that the team is working on week-by-week.
Use the concepts that the page introduces to help you develop a schedule page suitable for your project. Project team members can use the schedule page as a quick reference for all the events, milestones, and deliverables related to the project.
Figure 22.16. The schedule page.
Another key page in the project Web is the status page, shown in Figure 22.17. The status page helps all the members of the project team track the monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports for your project. Management might also find it useful to track
the status page as a reference.
Figure 22.17. The status page.
The archive page provides a common area for referencing and linking to all the documents that the project team and its members generate. You can also use it to create links to software and utilities that the members of the project team might need.
Figure 22.18 shows the introduction to the archive page. The remaining sections of the page are organized much like the download page in the Customer Support Web described earlier in this chapter.
Figure 22.18. The archive page.
The search page lets project members search through the full text of your project Web. Whenever you save a page or recalculate links, FrontPage creates a text index to your site. Using the Search bot and the search page, you can enable users to access
and retrieve information from this index. The search page is partially shown in Figure 22.19.
Figure 22.19. Search the project Web.
As shown in Figure 22.20, the project Web includes two complete discussion areas. The first discussion relates to project requirements. The second discussion builds a knowledge base for the project by tracking common questions and answers. While you
could redefine the purposes of these discussions simply by changing the text where appropriate, the requirements and knowledge base discussions are great for most projects.
Each discussion area contains four pages: a home page, a table of contents, a search page, and a posting page. The home page for the area is the same page the reader accesses when he clicks on the Discussion link from another area of the Web. The table
of contents, search, and posting pages have common headers and footers designed for their respective discussion areas.
Figure 22.20. The project Web includes two discussion areas.
The corporate presence Web is by far the most advanced Web included with FrontPage, so advanced in fact that you need a Web Wizard to help you build it. As the name of the Web implies, this Web is designed to help your company (or the company you work
for) establish a presence on the Web. This Web is designed to be your company's main site on the World Wide Web It can help you built the site, step by step.
The key pages of the corporate presence Web include the following:
A corporate home page
A table of contents page
A What's New page
Press release pages
A directory of your company's products and services
Pages for individual products and services
Pages for obtaining feedback from your customers
A search page
As you can see from the page listing, the pages included in this Web are similar to the templates discussed in Chapter 21, "Creating Web Pages with FrontPage's Templates." What makes this Web unique and powerful is that just about every
aspect of the Web is tunable to your needs via the wizard.
To start, select New from the File menu (or press Ctrl+N), and then choose the Corporate Presence Wizard from the New Web dialog box. Next, select a name and a server for your Web. After you enter this information, FrontPage launches the Corporate
Presence Wizard.
Figure 22.21 shows the first page of the Corporate Presence Wizard. The buttons at the bottom of the dialog box are standard throughout the Web creation process. At any time, you can move to the previous or next phase of the creation process using the
Back or Next buttons. When you have fully defined the Web, click the Finish button and the FrontPage Editor creates the Web you have designed.
Figure 22.21. Getting started with the Corporate Presence Wizard.
Now that you have started the Corporate Presence Wizard, click on the Next button. This displays the wizard page shown in Figure 22.22, from which you can select the type of pages you want to include in your Web.
To get a general idea of what these pages are used for, you can refer back to the templates in Chapter 21. Keep in mind, though, that the pages you create with the wizard are based on templates designed specifically for the corporate presence Web. In
most cases, you will want your corporate presence Web to include all of the possible pages.
Figure 22.22. Select the type of pages you want to use in your Web.
After you have selected the type of pages for your Web, you can continue by clicking Next. The next page in the Corporate Presence Wizard lets you select the topics you want to appear on the corporate home page.
As the page shown in Figure 22.23 implies, the home page is the first thing most visitors to your Web will see. For this reason, you should let visitors know immediately what your company does and what the company represents.
Small to mid-sized business should include the company mission and profile on the home page, because not all users who visit may be familiar with the company. However, most large businesses will want to include the company mission and profile on a
separate company background page. Still, I recommend selecting all the available topics. You can always delete sections you do not want to use later.
Figure 22.23. Select topics for your home page.
If you chose to include a What's New page, the wizard next displays the screen shown in Figure 22.24. This page helps you choose topics for your What's New page.
What's New pages usually provide readers with an update history for a Web site, and is often one of the most visited pages. You can also use the What's New page to tell your potential customers about new developments within the company, which is a
powerful tool for establishing your corporate presence in cyberspace. For this reason, the Corporate Presence Wizard includes changes to the Web site, a directory of press releases, and recent reviews of the company all on the same page. This is a winning
combination, and you will probably want to use all three topics on your What's New page.
Figure 22.24. Selecting topics for your What's New Page.
If you selected the products and services option earlier, clicking the Next button takes you to the page shown in Figure 22.25. Most companies sell products or servicessome companies offer both. On this page, you can choose how many products and
services pages you want to create.
NOTE
Zero is an acceptable value for the Products and Services fields. If you enter a zero in one of the fields, you will not be able to select the related options in later pages. If you enter a zero in both fields, you will skip wizard pages that relate to products and services.
Figure 22.25. Creating product and service pages.
After entering the number of product and service pages you would like the wizard to create, click on the Next button. As you can see from Figure 22.26, the wizard then lets you select the topics for your product and services pages.
Keep in mind that you are specifying default topics for all product and service pages. If you are unsure about the type of product or service information you would like to provide on the Web, select all the available options and make a determination
when you see the completed templates.
Figure 22.26. Selecting topics for the product and service pages.
Getting feedback from customers is extremely important, which is why the Corporate Presence Wizard creates a Feedback page for you. As you can see from Figure 22.27, the feedback page enables you to collect a lot of information from the
readerperhaps too much. If you really want to know what visitors think, do not ask them for too much personal information. Their e-mail addresses and perhaps their full names should suffice in most instances.
Figure 22.27. Determining input for the feedback page.
As shown in Figure 22.28, you can store the data gathered from the feedback form in two key formats: ASCII text or HTML. Data in a text format is easily manipulated, which is good if you want to do any follow-up processing. Data in HTML format is easy
to read, but not easily manipulated. You can change this selection later by opening the page in the FrontPage editor and changing the properties associated with the feedback form.
Figure 22.28. Storing feedback data.
Like an index, a table of contents for a Web site is useful but usually difficult to build and maintain. FrontPage automates this process and enables you to build a table of contents page that gets automatically updated when you make changes to the Web
structure. As shown in Figure 22.29, you can also create links to pages in the Web that are not linked to other pages and identify top-level pages with a bullet.
NOTE
Although I recommend using this page, it could grow unwieldy if your site has a lot of pages. If that happens, you might want to remove the WebBot that is making automatic updates to the page. You might also want to delete links to low-level pages.
Figure 22.29. Determining the style of the table of contents page.
One way to create a cohesive look and feel for your Web is to use standard headers and footers. Using Include bots, FrontPage makes the process of creating and maintaining standard headers and footers relatively effortless. You merely select the style
of header and footer you want to use from the wizard page shown in Figure 22.30.
For the header, you have three options. If you select Company Logo, an image you specify appears as a banner on all your pages. If you select Page Title, the title of the page (as defined in the page properties dialog box) appears as a level one
heading below the banner. If you select Links to your main Web pages, an image map with links to the top-level pages in the Web appear. You can define the style of this image map on a later page. For a clean and clear style, you might want to use the logo
and the image map.
For the footer, you have four options. Without the links on either the top or bottom of the page, readers cannot navigate your Web. For this reason, the Corporate Presence Wizard lets you advance to the next page only when you choose a location for the
links. Putting links to key pages in both the header and the footer is a good design technique.
You will find that most Web pages contain the e-mail address of the Webmaster and some copyright notices. The footer is the appropriate place for this information. Finally, notifying the reader of the date the page was last modified is useful,
especially if you plan to make frequent updates to your Web. A WebBot that tracks the last time you updated the page handles this feature. However, do you want readers making judgments about the accuracy of your information based on a timestamp? If you do
not plan to update all your pages on at least a quarterly basis, you might not want to include a timestamp.
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A series of bots adds the header and footer information to your documents. While you can edit the properties for these bots on a page-by-page basis, you generally cannot redefine the header and footer for all pages easily. However, the company logo is added to pages with an Include bot that references an HTML document called logo.htm. If you edit the logo.htm page, you can define a new banner for all pages within your Web. You can edit the links section of the header and footer as well. An Include bot that references an HTML document called navbar.htm adds the links.
Figure 22.30. Defining standard headers and footers.
The next page in the wizard lets you select a presentation style for all the pages in your Web. As you can see from Figure 22.31, these styles go from plain to cool. Keep in mind that the presentation style really only applies to the default graphics
used in the Web. Generally, the wizard creates graphics for
Header and footer page links
Default page title graphics
Fancy horizontal rules
Buttons
If you choose the plain style, it replaces the default graphics with text links. If you choose any other style, your pages will use the default graphics as shown when you make the selection.
Figure 22.31. Selecting a presentation style.
Choosing a standard color scheme for your pages is a sound design technique. Figure 22.32 shows the wizard page that lets you define page colors. If you have been following along with your computer, clicking on the Next button should take you to this
wizard page. The color options you choose apply to all the pages in your Web.
The two most basic options on this page are whether to use custom colors or default colors. If you choose custom colors, you can define the color of backgrounds, text, links, visited links, and active links. If you choose default colors, you cannot
make color selections. Most Web publishers want to create custom colors for their pages.
The Background area of this page enables you to select either a background pattern or color. The wizard provides a good variety of background patterns that should fit most Web publishers' needs. Patterns add visual variety to your pages and can enhance
your Web's design significantly. However, if you do not want to use a background pattern, select None from the Background pull-down menu. You can now select a background color. Click on the box next to the Color field to open the Color dialog box.
The Text area of this page enables you to set colors for normal text and links. You can set the color for text and links in the Color dialog box.
The sample document shown in the left half of the page changes to match your selections. This gives you a good idea of how the color and background options you choose will affect your pages.
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FrontPage stores the color definitions for your Web in a style sheet page called Web Colors. This page resides in a private directory with the page URL style.htm. Through the Link View in the FrontPage Explorer, you can open this page for editing.
Figure 22.32. Choosing Colors for the Web.
As you can see from Figure 22.33, the next page enables you to add an "under construction" icon to unfinished pages. This serves as a visual cue to visitors that the page is not finished yet. When you first create your Web, most of your pages
will be unfinished, so if you decide to use this icon, you'll likely use it in a lot of places.
CAUTION
The "under construction" icon is extremely frustrating for users, especially if it is used in many places on your Web site. After all, who wants to browse a site where every link leads to a dead end? So, instead of publishing an unfinished site, polish your site until it shines and then publish it.
Figure 22.33. Adding an "under construction" icon.
Your company name plays an important part in building your Web presence. All of your pages should include either the full name of your company or an abbreviated name. Some of your pages should include the company's address as well. To avoid the tedium
of having to add this information to dozens of pages, the Corporate Presence Wizard lets you define this information using the page shown in Figure 22.34.
You must not leave any of these fields blank. Therefore, if you click on the Next button with the empty field shown in Figure 22.34, the Explorer displays a prompt that tells you to fill in the address field. After you specify this information, the
wizard takes care of adding it to pages where needed.
Figure 22.34. Adding key information to your pages.
Contact information beyond the company's address is also important. On the next page, shown in Figure 22.35, you specify phone, FAX, and e-mail addresses. Again, because this information must appear on key pages within your Web, you cannot leave any of
these fields blank, which means that you would need to fill in the two fields on the page shown in Figure 22.35 before you advance to the next page.
Figure 22.35. Completing the necessary contact information.
The final page in the Corporate Presence Wizard enables you to automatically generate a To-Do list for your new Web. The To-Do list contains a list of tasks that you should perform to complete the Web. You should generate the To-Do list because it
gives you a clear idea of what you need to do next.
Now that you are done defining your Web, click on the Finish button. When you do this, the wizard starts creating the Web. After the wizard creates the Web, it generates the To-Do list. If you created all the available pages, you have a To-Do list with
7 items similar to the one shown in Figure 22.36. Use this list as a guideline to help you complete the design of your Web. After you complete the tasks on your To-Do list, look at and edit each and every page in your Web.
Figure 22.36. Use the To-Do List to help you complete the design.
Creating an instant Web site is easy with the Web templates and wizards included in FrontPage. A Web template contains outlines for a specific set of pages, such as all the pages that relate to a customer support Web. A wizard helps you automatically
generate content for a complex Web, such as one that would help you build a presence on the World Wide Web. Both Web templates and wizards contain helpful guidelines to make development of intranet and Web sites easier.