Before attempting FrontPage...as a novice

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Am a web-design novice, though comfortable with Word, Excel, Internet, etc as
a user. Will the FrontPage wizard generally walk me thru the website design
and publishing process, while I learn on the run, or does it make more sense
for me to take a web-design course first?
 
And purchase a good book ... by Jim Buyens FrontPage Inside/Out for your
version of FP.
ETC
 
I take it then that the recommended book and the FrontPage 2003 Wizard will
be enough, without having to resort to a web-design course first. Pls advise,
Tks.
 
If you have a good handle on Excel and Word, then you have the basic skills
you need to know how to navigate around any MS application. That along with
knowing how to use the help files and online sources of MS for FrontPage...
I would say you have what you need to get started and produce a decent
website.

FP is designed to be a canned product with all of the basic tools you need
to get the job done. I can't say that you should take a course. That depends
on the school/instructor offering the course and your learning style.

Take a look at this MS website with training modules and see for yourself if
you can do this without a course.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832701033.aspx
I think you'll find you don't need one, however... taking a basic course in
HTML might be advantageous down the road. As far as design, there are quite
a few good training modules on MS that helps a person who may be design
challenged. I would look at design from two different perspectives, design
from a "visual" point of view, e.g., font selection, colors, etc. and design
from the "mechanics" point of view, using the various tools and web
structure.

Hope this helps,
Steve Banks
 
Thanks, Steve.
--
CT


Steven Banks said:
If you have a good handle on Excel and Word, then you have the basic skills
you need to know how to navigate around any MS application. That along with
knowing how to use the help files and online sources of MS for FrontPage...
I would say you have what you need to get started and produce a decent
website.

FP is designed to be a canned product with all of the basic tools you need
to get the job done. I can't say that you should take a course. That depends
on the school/instructor offering the course and your learning style.

Take a look at this MS website with training modules and see for yourself if
you can do this without a course.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832701033.aspx
I think you'll find you don't need one, however... taking a basic course in
HTML might be advantageous down the road. As far as design, there are quite
a few good training modules on MS that helps a person who may be design
challenged. I would look at design from two different perspectives, design
from a "visual" point of view, e.g., font selection, colors, etc. and design
from the "mechanics" point of view, using the various tools and web
structure.

Hope this helps,
Steve Banks
Click to expand...
 
While I expert FrontPage will he easy enough for you to figure out unless
you are satisfied with the canned themes and wizards you may want to spenda
bit of time looking at books and tutorials on the design aspects such as:
http://www.sitepoint.com/subcat/design-principles
and books like
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201710382/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/102-3141253-1027365

Whether you need a class or not will depend on your learning style and
other skills. Many people do very well with trial and error, books, online
tutorials, etc. while others need the structure of a classroom environment.


--
Cheryl D. Wise
MS FrontPage MVP
http://mvp.wiserways.com
http://starttoweb.com
Online instructor led web design training - Next Session June 26th
 
If your serious about web design forget about Frontpage. Enrol in a web
design course and start learning how to program. If your not serious about
web design use front page to build the web site for you. If you want a
proffesional image of your web site hire a web design professional to build
the site for you - they will also show you how to maintain the web site.

All the best
 
If you want a
proffesional image of your web site hire a web design professional to
build
the site for you
Click to expand...

What if they use FP?

Comments like this simply cannot be taken seriously. It's the user, not the
program, that makes a good web site.
 
Murray is 1000% right - go for it - FP is as good as any and pretty easy to
get a site up and running - especially for a novice!
 
Murray said:
What if they use FP?

Comments like this simply cannot be taken seriously. It's the user,
not the program, that makes a good web site.
Click to expand...

Murray.
With much respect to you (as you have given me some great info.), isn't a
web designer only useful for the artistic or aesthetic side of the web?

That is, s/he won't necessarily create better code, just a better layout and
look.

But perhaps that is what you are saying
 
It's a semantic problem, I think, Trevor. I interpreted Web Designer in its
broadest sense, and in the sense implied by this snippet - "... web design
professional to build the site...". I consider myself a web design
professional, although I rarely 'design' the graphic look of the sites I
build - that I do in collaboration with others who act as subcontractors to
me. If I were to elect to use FP to build the site, it would be no better
or no worse than if I were to elect to use Dreamweaver to build the site.
Verily, it would look the same at the code level! 8)

And by the way - why are there so many flies in Canberra? 8)
 
Murray said:
It's a semantic problem, I think, Trevor.
Click to expand...

Yes, that's fairly close to what I thought.
And by the way - why are there so many flies in Canberra? 8)
Click to expand...

Interesting question !

Forty years ago, it was quiet noticeable, probably because as many said it
was a capital built on a sheep station. But nowadays I doubt that it's any
worse than other parts of Australia. After all, an "Aussie salute" is the
name given to the action of brushing flies away from your face.
 
LOL....

--
Murray
--------------
MVP FrontPage


Trevor L. said:
Yes, that's fairly close to what I thought.


Interesting question !

Forty years ago, it was quiet noticeable, probably because as many said it
was a capital built on a sheep station. But nowadays I doubt that it's any
worse than other parts of Australia. After all, an "Aussie salute" is the
name given to the action of brushing flies away from your face.
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top