Chapter 19: Administering Web Sites

Overview

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• Rename your FrontPage Web and adjust other general settings

• Add comments to Web pages to keep your colleagues informed

• Adjust margins and change other page options to improve readability

• View and clean up your HTML code to keep pages functioning smoothly

• Create and update a Task List, so that workgroup members can be informed

• Make sure your Web pages are accessible to viewers with disabilities

Many essential administrative tasks take place after you ve created and proofread the documents that make up your FrontPage-based Web. This is the stage where you make sure your images, links, and forms look and function correctly, and where you specify language, navigation, browser compatibility, and other general settings. The managing of a Web site can be a highly technical undertaking ”but Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 provides the user -friendly tools that make it relatively easy.

In this chapter, you ll learn how to perform some of the basic Web site administration tasks. Some of those tasks require you to make changes to individual pages, such as adding comments to files, and adjusting page margins. Other items in your Webmaster s to-do list occur behind the scenes, for your benefit rather than for your visitors . You can work with a list of tasks you need to complete; you can clean up your site s HTML code so your pages load quickly and display all of their contents; and you can change links that appear on multiple pages at the same time. FrontPage s general Web site administration tools make it possible for you to ensure that your site functions correctly and remains accessible to all of your visitors .