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Microsoft Office Courses Overview
Students will learn advanced FrontPage 2000 features to create web pages and manage web sites for the World Wide Web or their corporate intranet.
Courses Benefits:
Students will learn how to design, build, and manage web pages and web sites; create frame-based web pages; use FrontPage to add media and functionality to web pages; create a form to collect visitor information; use advanced features (such as reports, tasks, and ActiveX components); and format web pages with animation and style sheets.
Prerequisites
Windows 98: Introduction or Windows 98: Making the Transition, FrontPage 2000: Introduction, Word 2000: Level 1 and Word 2000: Level 2, Internet Explorer 4.0: Introduction, and Web surfing experience. Recommended but not required: HTML 4.0 Programming: Level 1.
Delivery Method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Target Student;
Students enrolling in this course should understand their operating system (Windows 95, 98, or NT 4.0) and be familiar with the Office 2000 applications. A basic understanding of HTML concepts and web site design would also be helpful.
What's next:
FrontPage 2000: Advanced is the last course in this series. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Cascading Style Sheets, Microsoft Office 2000: Web Components and Collaboration, and Microsoft Office 2000: Macro Programming Using Visual Basic for Applications.
Hardware / Software Requirements
- A PC with a 75 MHz Pentium or higher processor with 24 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM). (A Pentium 90 with 32 MB of RAM or better is recommended.)
- 500 MB of free hard drive space. (Windows NT only: At least 4 MB of available space in the Registry.)
- Either a local CD-ROM drive or access to a networked CD-ROM drive for installation purposes.
- A floppy-disk drive.
- A two-button mouse or IntelliMouse.
- A VGA or higher display adapter (SVGA recommended). The EGA display adapter is not supported.
- An installed printer driver. (Printers are not required; however, each PC must have an installed printer driver to use Print Preview.)
- Microsoft Windows 95 or later, or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later installed.
- Microsoft Personal Web Server—install prior to Microsoft Office 2000 Premium applications for best results. Note:> This course will not run correctly without the Personal Web Server software, which can be downloaded free from the Microsoft Web site.
- A full installation of Microsoft Office 2000 Premium.
Additional Items or Services Required to Use Certain Features
- Multimedia computer required to access sound effects.
- Some Internet functionality requires Internet access and payment of a separate fee to a service provider, and local charges may also apply. If necessary, run the Internet Setup Wizard before class.
- Some FrontPage functionality requires Web server software, which is available separately for free from Microsoft’s Web site.
- See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup.
Performance-Based Objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply web site design considerations when creating a web site with a wizard. Students will also be able to add and modify structural elements in an existing web.
- Apply web page design concepts to create and modify web pages by using frames.
- Build a web-based form to collect and store user data.
- Modify pictures as well as add sound and web components (such as rotating banner ads, marquee text, and ActiveX controls) to their web pages.
- Use reports and tasks to manage and collaborate on web site creation.
- Animate text and format text and web pages with Dynamic HTML and style sheets.
New features covered in this series
Below is a table listing the new software features that are covered in ZD Education courseware:
New Feature |
Introduction
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Advanced
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| Auto
Thumbnail creation |
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>X
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| Built-in
source control |
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>X
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Disk-based and server-based web
sites
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>X
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Drag and drop hyperlinks
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>X
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Dynamic HTML toolbar
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>X
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Floating menus
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>X
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Format painter
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>X
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Integrated FrontPage Editor and
FrontPage Explorer
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>X
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>X
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Navigation toolbar
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>X
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Nested subwebs
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>X
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Object positioning
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>X
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Personalized menus
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>X
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>X
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Personalized toolbars
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>X
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>X
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Reporting toolbar
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>X
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Reports view
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>X
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Reveal Tags
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>X
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Send data automatically to a new
Access database
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>X
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Template-based style sheet
creation
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>X
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Web page compatibility
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>X
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Workgroup
options
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>X
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Course duration
1 Day
Microsoft Office Courses outline
Lesson 1: Designing and building a web site
- Designing a web site
- Creating a web site by using a wizard
- Web location options
- Adding structure to your web
Lesson 2: Page design and working with
frames
- Web page design considerations
- Creating framed pages
- Modifying frames
Lesson 3: Creating forms and collecting the
data
- Creating a form
- Inserting other form fields
- Setting form options
- Connecting a form to a database
Lesson 4: Adding media and functionality to
web pages
- Working with pictures in FrontPage
- FrontPage components
- Component extras
- Adding advanced components and functions
Lesson 5: Reports and collaboration
- Reports and tasks
- Using FrontPage’s collaboration tools
- Introduction to web security
Lesson 6: Animation and style sheets
- Introduction to Dynamic HTML
- Using style sheets and styles
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