Part II: Creating the Home Page

In this part, you will create a home page for the magazine. Before you begin, however, you must add some graphics files to your site.

Step 1

If you don't already have the Magazine web open in Visual InterDev, open it now. On the FileView tab, click the IMAGES directory and choose Add To Project/Files from the Project menu. Copy the image files for this project to your site.

Step 2

To add a new Web page to your project, choose New from the File menu. When the New dialog box appears, click the Files tab and click Active Server Page. In the File Name text box, type DEFAULT.ASP, and click OK. Visual InterDev will automatically add the new Web page to your site.

Step 3

Close DEFAULT.ASP in Visual InterDev, and open it again by right-clicking the file on the FileView tab. Choose Open With from the pop-up menu. In the Open With dialog box, open DEFAULT.ASP with Microsoft FrontPage Editor (Visual InterDev Edition).

In FrontPage Editor, choose Background from the Format menu. In the Page Properties dialog box, change the page background color to white and then click OK.

To insert a page banner, choose Image from the Insert menu. In the Insert dialog box, add the new image by specifying its location:

/MAGAZINE/IMAGES/BANNER.GIF 

Insert a horizontal rule below the banner by choosing Horizontal Line from the Insert menu. Save your work, and return to Visual InterDev.