The Big Picture

If you've ever built a site on your own, you know what a pain it is to keep track of all of your pages and what links to what. Navigation can also quickly get out of hand if you don't keep the "big picture" in mind. As new pages are added to your site, even the best efforts to keep everything linked to everything else can still result in several missed links.

Understanding how a Web site works on larger level is also vital to anyone who is charged with maintaining a Web site.

Adding a page to a Web site is never as easy as simply adding the page. Where should it link to? What should the links look like? Where should it be linked from? Where does it belong in the flow of your site?

If you've never built a site on your own, you're going to learn the wonders of keeping navigation under control. The wonder of the Web is not the individual Web page, but the way everything works and links together. If your site doesn't work and link together well, you will have problems.

FrontPage has a batch of navigational tools that are both easy to use and powerful to implement. By building a site with these tools in place (and in mind), you will find that adding and removing pages and links is easy because FrontPage manages the process as needed.

In this chapter, we'll look at FrontPage's navigational tools, how to build and maintain a site with the tools, how to manage the dynamically generated navigational elements and examine how FrontPage's new publishing options require a number of considerations when working with this toolset. We'll also take a look at how FrontPage Page Banners relate to the FrontPage navigational elements.

As always, we'll take a deeper look at the human side of using these tools in the "Front and Center: Navigation Power and Building a Site in Navigation View First" section at the end of this chapter.



Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
ISBN: 0789729547
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 443

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