This page explains how you can:

Importing text (and/or pictures) from your word processor, or from the Internet

This is an easy process:

1. Prepare a page on your web where you will paste your imported text and/or picture. Don't forget that if you want to add a page to your web you should do so while you are in navigation view, not page view.
2. In your word processor or browser, select the text you wish to export and copy it (Ctrl+C). To copy a picture, right-click the picture and choose Copy Picture.
3. Return to FrontPage and make sure the insertion point is flashing at the point that you wish to paste the text or picture, then paste (Ctrl+V).

You should find that the pasted text resembles the text of your original, but some formatting may have been lost or changed so you may have to spend some time formatting the page as you want. In particular, the pasted text may not have the font style that corresponds to the decorative 'theme' you have applied to your web - you can fix this by selecting all the text on the page (Ctrl-A) and choosing default font from the formatting toolbar that should be visible at the top of your screen: .

You may know that MS Word can save documents as web pages (File > Save as Web Page) but I do not recommend this as the web pages created in this way have a special format that makes it difficult to incorporate them into a FrontPage web.

Adding Pictures to your page

Warning: Large pictures can contain a great deal of raw information, making them slow to load so it is a good idea to avoid using pictures any larger than a postcard on your web pages. Even limiting pictures to this size, you will also need to limit the number of pictures on each page to about half a dozen otherwise visitors with modems (not DSL) may not be able to load the whole page without a 'timeout' occurring. FrontPage provides a useful gauge in the bottom right corner of the page editing window which indicates how long it will take for the page to load - switch the gauge to 56.6kbps (the standard speed for modems) and make sure the download time does not exceed 30 seconds for any page.

The easiest way to import a picture is via the clipboard, using Copy and Paste, as explained above. Don't forget that many pictures are protected by copyright. When you save the page containing the imported picture FrontPage will ask you whether you want to save the picture and you will say yes. It is important to realize that the picture will be saved as a separate file - HTML documents are actually text files so they never contain pictures, only instructions for displaying pictures. If necessary, FrontPage will convert the picture to a web-compatible format - web pages can only contain pictures in jpeg, gif or png format. 

Sometimes the copy-and-paste method is not applicable. For example, you may have a picture file on your computer that you want to import into your web. Use this procedure:

1. Click at the point on your page where you wish to insert the graphic.
2. Choose Insert > Picture > From File, then click the browse button in the bottom right corner and browse to locate the graphic and insert it. If the graphic is not in a compatible format (jpeg, gif or png) then FrontPage will automatically convert it.
3. Once the graphic is on your web page, clicking once on the graphic should normally display a graphics toolbar at the bottom of the screen. You can use this to, for example, adjust the brightness and contrast of the image. You can also pull the corner of the image to change its size, although you should not assume that making the picture appear smaller will cause it to load faster since this manipulation does not affect the size of the file.
4. When you next save the page, FrontPage will ask you whether you wish to save the graphic and you will, of course, say yes.

Clip art can also be added to your page - just choose Insert > Picture > ClipArt.

Once you have placed the picture on your page you have a lot of options. You may have difficulty dragging the picture into the desired location on the page - that's because pictures are usually embedded in the text and thus, like for a paragraph of text, you may be limited to placing your picture left, centre or right, using the alignment buttons. You could put a few spaces next to the picture if you want more control.

However, you CAN make the picture 'float' if you want to, so that you can place it anywhere you want on the page:

You can now drag the picture to any location you want but be warned: because the picture is no longer connected to the text it will not move with the text if the text gets pushed down additional text being added earlier in the page, so there is a danger that the picture may end up far from the text that it is supposed to accompany.

Internal Links

If you have followed the instructions above then you do not need to worry about creating links between the pages in your site for FrontPage creates them automatically and displays them in the Navigation Bar at the top of every page. The links reflect the structure of the Navigation Hierarchy which you can set by switching to Navigation View (click the Navigation icon in the Views Bar at left).

Adding External Links

To add links to pages outside your site:

1. Decide which text or picture is to become the 'hyperlink', and select it
2. Click the Hyperlink icon in the toolbar, then carefully type in the URL of the page you want to link to, without removing the http:// prefix. For example to the school page, you would type   http://www.civissa.org

This sentence contains a link to the school site HERE.

Linking to Bookmarks

As shown at the top of this page, it is also possible to create hyperlinks to specific points on a page that have been marked with 'bookmarks'. 

1. Select a word or phrase that is to become the bookmark (the target of the link that you will create).
2. Choose Insert > Bookmark.
3. Select some text or a picture that is to link to the bookmark and and use the Hyperlink icon to set up the link.