Front Page Cheat Sheet | by: Marshall G. Jones
Logging
into Birdnest:
- Open
Front Page;
- Click
on the File menu, drag down to “Open Web;”
- In
the box, type in: http://www.birdnest.org/your_username
- Press
Return on the keyboard and it will ask you for your username and password;
- UserName
= acc\your_username
- Password
= the same password you use in the lab.
Creating Pages
Click
on the File Menu, drag down to “New Page;”
Select
the type of page you want, usually it will be “Normal Page.”
Inserting a Picture
- Click
on the icon for “Insert Picture from File”
- Navigate
to your Z Drive and choose the correct file.
- Remember
that you must save the picture to your Z drive before you insert it.
- Remember
that when you save your page Front Page will Embed the picture for you.
Inserting a
Background Picture
- Right
Click in the middle of the page and drag down to “Page Properties;”
- Click
on the background tab;
- Find
the space for picture and follow the directions for inserting a picture
- OR—Click
on the Format menu and drag down to Background. Follow the directions above.
Creating an
Internal, or Relative Link
- Highlight
the text or image you want to use as a link;
- Click
on the Hyperlink button.
- Scroll
down until you find the name of the page you want to link to. Remember that
you can’t link to a page that has not been created.
Creating an
External, or Absolute Link
- Follow
the same steps as for an Internal, or Relative Link
- In
the URL box, type the full address. Be careful, one typo and the link
doesn’t work.
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OR --
- On
the page, start typing the URL you want to link to. If you start it with
http:// it will assume you are
creating an external link. When you finish typing the link press the space
bar or the enter key and the text will turn blue and underlined, indicating
the link has been created. Like above, you must be sure the link is typed
correctly or it will not work. Copying the link from your browser and
pasting it into Front Page is recommended.
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