Lesson 9
Inserting Music
Background Properties
Margins
Page Transitions
Inserting page transitions with FrontPage is very simple. Simply click
on Format then choose Page Transitions. The following window will appear.
Under
Event you have four choices:
Page Enter - the transition will play when the visitor enters the page
you have chosen to display the transition.
Page Exit - the transition will play when the visitor exits the page
you have chosen to display the transition.
Site Enter - the transition will play when the visitor enters your
website.
Site Exit - the transition will play when the visitor exits your
website.
Duration (seconds): will determine the length of time it will
take for the Page Transition to complete. You don't want this to take very
long or you will lose your visitors as they must wait for the transition
to finish and it might get annoying.
Transition effect: gives you a twenty-five choices to choose
from. I could not possibly go through them all and explain, but it is easy
to test what transition you would like for your site. To do this create a
test page and test each transition effect by choosing Page Enter, then
choose an effect and the duration. Save your page and then preview it in
your browser. When you have found the Transition you like you can then
program it into your web.
Inserting Music in Your Page
This is another really simple task when working in FrontPage. Simply
right click on your page and choose Page Properties. The following window
will appear. You should open up to the General tab, if not click on it.
Now
you will see Background sound, simply click on your Browse... button and
find the file you wish to upload to provide music. Once you have that set
up go to Loop and you can either check off to loop the music forever, or
uncheck that and enter the times you would like the music to loop, if you
choose 0 the music will only play once. Click OK and your music is
embedded into your page.
Background Properties
By
right clicking on your page and choosing Page Properties then the
Background tab, you will see the window shown in the screenshot at the
right. If you check off the box beside Background picture the greyed box
will be enabled for you to add a background picture to your page. Simply
click on Browse and find the graphic on your hard drive.
By checking off the Enable hyperlink rollover effects you will enable
the Rollover style button, in which you can choose font color, style, size
and effect, when the mouse is dragged over the text.
The Background and text allow you to choose the colors for your
background if you have not specified a picture and the color of your font.
Click here to see instructions for the
color charts.
Next you can format the color of your hyperlink, visited hyperlink and
active hyperlink. The color for hyperlink is the color the visitor will
see when they enter your page for the first time and have never visited
the page the hyperlink is linked to. The Visited hyperlink is the color of
the hyperlink when the visitor comes to your page and they have already
clicked on they link, this lets them know they have already seen that
page. Active hyperlink is the color of the hyperlink when the visitor
selects it on the page.
You can also get your background information from another page. This
can come in handy if all of your pages are the same and you have a large
web and there is the possibility of changing the background information.
If all your pages were linked to just one page, when you change that one
page, it will change the information on all the pages as they are linked.
Margins
By right clicking on your page and choosing Page Properties, then click
on the Margins tab, you will see Specify Top Margin and Specify Left
Margin. I believe the default for the top margin is 15 and the default
left margin is 10. You can adjust these to suite your preferences when
designing your page. This is very important when you want a background to
fill the entire browser. If you set both margins to 0 then your browser
will fill the page with your background.
