Lesson 2: Web Page Design in the FrontPage Editor

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Collecting Feedback from Your Site

In Lesson 1, you learned how to create simple hyperlinks from text on a page that point to other pages in your FrontPage-based Web site. Aside from connecting pages within your FrontPage-based Web site, a hyperlink can also open pages on the World Wide Web or interact with other programs such as an electronic mail application or a newsgroup reader.

In the steps below, you will create a text hyperlink that launches an e-mail form on the user's computer when the user clicks the hyperlink in a Web browser. This type of hyperlink is useful to request feedback from the people that view your FrontPage-based Web site after it has been published.

To Create an E-mail Hyperlink

1. On the Tutorial Practice page, press the ENTER key to create some space after the inserted text.
   
   
2. Type Please send me feedback about my Web site!
   
   
3. Double-click the word "feedback" to select it.

   The FrontPage Editor supports standard Windows selection shortcuts.

   

   Figure 1. The Create or Edit Hyperlink button

4. Click the Create or Edit Hyperlink button on the FrontPage Editor's toolbar.

   Toolbar buttons offer convenient shortcuts to FrontPage menu commands.

   

   Figure 2. The E-Mail button

5. In the Create Hyperlink dialog box, click the E-mail button.
   
   
6. In the Create E-mail Hyperlink dialog box, type your e-mail address (for example, someone@microsoft.com).

   Your personal e-mail address was established for you by your Internet Service Provider when you first obtained your connection to the Internet.

   

   Figure 3. The Create Hyperlink dialog box

7. Click OK.

   The URL field in the Create Hyperlink dialog box should now contain "mailto:someone@microsoft.com" (where the example shown here should be your real e-mail address on your screen).

8. Click OK.

The word "feedback" has changed text color and is now underlined to indicate the hyperlink.

Later in this lesson, you will view the Tutorial Practice page in a Web browser, where you will be able to test the hyperlink you created here.

To Save the Current Page

Figure 4. The Save button

• On the FrontPage Editor's toolbar, click the Save button.

The page is saved to the current FrontPage-based Web site.