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Description	Microsoft FrontPage 98 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editor and powerful site manager bundled with a pretty good graphics editor. Components Microsoft Personal Web Server FrontPage Explorer FrontPage Editor Microsoft Image Composer FrontPage Server Extensions
	The Microsoft Personal Web Server program installs a web server on your computer's hard drive; here is where you will place your FrontPage webs.
FrontPage Explorer	Front Page Explorer is the FrontPage 98 component that displays the file, folder and directory structure of your web site. FrontPage Explorer has a number of 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. All Files: displays a list of all the files in the current web Navigation: displays the navigational structure of the files in the web site. Hyperlinks: displays the hyperlinks from a file in a web site Hyperlink Status: 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. Themes: displays the themes available for your FrontPage web Tasks: displays the list of tasks assigned to be completed within the web site.	FrontPage Explorer button
FrontPage Editor	FrontPage Editor is the component of FrontPage 98 where you will create and edit your individual web pages. FrontPage Editor has three views: 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.	FrontPage Editor button
Image Composer	Microsoft Image Composer is a program that allows you to create and edit the graphics for your web site.	Image Composer button
Server Extensions	FrontPage Server Extensions are advanced programs that automate the scripts that enable interactive web site features such as forms handling to work. These extensions reside on the server; contact your server administrator to learn whether they have been installed on your host server.
Install FrontPage 98	When you install FrontPage 98, install the following components: Microsoft Personal Web Server FrontPage Image Composer
Open a FrontPage Web	When you launch FrontPage, it will default to FrontPage Explorer. If you have already created a FrontPage web, the Getting Started dialog box will appear.

	Choose the web you wish to work on and click OK.
Create a New Web	To create a new FrontPage web, click on Create a New FrontPage Web. The New FrontPage Web dialog box will appear.

	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. Title the Web By default the web will be created on your hard drive. To create the web on a diskette, click on Change and specify the drive for the new web. FrontPage will say the folder does not exist and ask permission to create it. Click Yes. After FrontPage creates the new web, it will display the Navigation View of FrontPage Explorer. In the far left hand Views column, click on Folders to go to the Folders view.
Folders View	Note that there are already some folders in your web: private: a folder that contains files necessary to run the advanced features of FrontPage 98 images: the folder where you will place all of your images
	Take a look around FrontPage Explorer

	On the very top line is the main menu. The second line contains the standard toolbar. The far left hand column contains all the choices for your FrontPage Explorer view. In Folders view the middle column contains a list of the folders in the current web. In Folders view the right hand column contains the files in the open folder.
Create a Web Page	To create a web page, click on the FrontPage Editor button on the toolbar. Examine the toolbars that appear on the top of the page.

	As usual, the main menu bar is at the very top of the page. The first toolbar is the Standard toolbar. Right below the Standard toolbar is the Format toolbar. At the very bottom of the page is the tab that tells you which FrontPage Editor view is being displayed. 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.

	FrontPage 98 works like any other common word processing software. You can set the font, size and alignment of text before you type it. You can also highlight existing text, then access a feature and apply it.
Save a Web Page	To save a file in FrontPage 98, click on File, Save As on the main menu bar. The Save As dialog box will appear.

	In the URL text box assign a filename to your page. Remember that this filename will become part of the URL for the page keep it short use lower case letters don't use spaces Be sure your file is in whatever folder you want it to be in. In the Title text box, give your page a title; remember that this title will appear at the top of the browser window and in bookmarks to your page, so make your title clear and descriptive. You can also use normal capitalization and spacing. Click on OK.
	If your file contains images, the Save Embedded Files dialog box will appear. The Embedded Files to Save text block will contain a list of the image files in the current page.

	Click on Change Folder. Navigate to your images folder to place the image files in that location. Click on OK. When you return to the Save Embedded Files dialog box, click on OK.
	To preview the file, click on the Preview tab in the lower left corner of the FrontPage Editor screen. To view a file in the browser, open the browser of your choice. Choose File, Open or Open Page (your choice of terms depends on your browser) from the main menu. Then choose Browse or Choose File (your choice of terms depends on your browser) to navigate to the drive and directory where your page is located. Choose your file and click Open. Click Open again when the browser displays your file name. The file will open in your browser.	NOTE: What you see in the Preview view will only approximate what you will see in a browser.