Lesson 2: Web Page Design in the FrontPage Editor

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Adding an Active Page Element

With FrontPage, you can add Active Page elements such as hover buttons, marquees, search forms, page counters, and video clips. These elements can make your pages more interesting and useful.

In this exercise, you will add a marquee to your current page. A marquee is a region on a page that displays scrolling text when the page is viewed in a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. Marquees are a fun way to create moving text and headlines on your home page. They can be used to draw attention to news and events.

To Add a Marquee

1. On the Tutorial Practice page, press the ENTER key twice to create some space below the numbered list.
   
   
2. Select "Heading 1" from the Change Style drop-down list on the FrontPage Editor's toolbar.
   
   
3. Type Welcome to my Personal Web!
   
   
4. Select this text and click the Bold button on the format toolbar.

   Formatting of marquee text must occur before you insert a marquee region. If the current FrontPage-based Web site has a theme applied, text color, size, and font may change dynamically.

5. On the Insert menu, point to Active Elements, then click Marquee.

   The Marquee Properties dialog box is displayed. In this dialog box, you can adjust several marquee properties, including the speed and direction of movement, as well as marquee size and background color.

6. On the Background Color drop-down list, choose Navy.
   
   
7. Click OK.

FrontPage adds a marquee region to the current page.

Figure 1. Adding a marquee

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

To Save the Current Page

Figure 2. The Save button

• On the FrontPage Editor's File menu, choose Save.

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