Start: Tour FrontPage 2000

	Microsoft FrontPage 2000 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editor and powerful site manager.
Install FrontPage 2000	You can install FrontPage 2000 as a stand-alone product or as part of the Microsoft Office 2000 suite of software applications. Install FrontPage 2000 as you would any other new software. Normally the Installation Wizard will start as soon as you place the program in your CD-ROM drive. Follow the directions on the screen to install FrontPage 2000.
Open FrontPage 2000	You can open FrontPage 2000 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.	FrontPage 2000 shortcut button
	When you launch FrontPage 2000, it will default to the Page view.

Page View	The standard Microsoft Title bar and Menu bar will be at the very top of the screen. Just below the Menu bar are the Standard toolbar and the Formatting toolbar. At the very bottom of the page is the tab that tells you which version of the page is being displayed. Page view can be set in three ways: Normal: the view in which you will create your page; this is a WYSIWYG view HTML: the view in which you can look at and edit the HTML code that generates your page. Preview: the view of the page that approximates the way it will look in a browser. Immediately below this tab is the Status toolbar. Look at the far right corner to see an estimate in seconds of how long it will take to load your page.
Views Bar	At the left side of the screen is the Views bar with shortcuts to the other FrontPage 2000 views. Folders: displays a list of all folders in the current web; you can open a folder to display the list of files within that folder. Reports: summarizes the types of files in your web and lists statistics on hyperlinks, slow-loading files, older files, recently created or modified files, and errors in files. Navigation: displays the navigational structure of the files in the web site. Hyperlinks: displays the hyperlinks from a file in a web site Hyperlinks: displays a list of the broken links in a web site; also displays the list of links FrontPage 98 is unable to check because they point to other web sites. Tasks: displays the list of tasks assigned to be completed within the web site.
Create a New Web	To create a new web, choose File, New, Web from the Menu bar. The New dialog box will open.

	You can, if you wish, choose a template on which to base your web site. However, you are more likely to prefer to build a web site from scratch. To create a new blank web site, use the following procedure: Choose Empty Web. Use the drop down box on the right side of the dialog box to choose the drive and directory where you will want to save your web. By default the web will be created in the MyWebs folder on your hard drive. To create the web on a diskette, type the drive and the name of the web in the text box. Example: a:\myweb Click on OK. After FrontPage creates the new web, it will display the Folders view of the web.

	Note that there are already some folders in your web: private: a folder that contains files necessary to run the advanced features of FrontPage 2000 images: the folder where you will place all of your images index.htm: a blank page that will become the home page of your web
Open a Web	To open an existing web site, Choose File, Open Web from the main menu. Navigate to the drive and directory that contains your web. Click on Open. Your web will open in Folders view.
Open a Web Page	To open an existing web page: Choose File, Open from the Menu bar or click on the Open button on the Standard toolbar. Navigate to the drive, directory, and folder that contains the page. Click on the file name. Click Open.	Open button