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Presentation/Web FrontPage - Website Structure, and Publishing your Website

Website Structure

The logical structure of your website, as reflected in your site's appearance, hyperlinks and menus,  should allow users to exploit the non-linear nature of web sites, yet never allow them to get lost. FrontPage builds in some tools to help. 

The "Hyperlinks" view gives a review of all hyperlinks and their targets. Of course, many of these targets will be off-site, i.e., located outside your website.  This view is only a per-page tool, but allows you to insure that every page has a way in and a way out. The "Navigation" view is a whole-site view. Unfortunately, it will show menu and navigation structure for your site only if you use navigation buttons in shared borders - otherwise you must use the "Hyperlinks" view to see link flow. "Reports" gives a wide variety of web assessment tools.  One of the best is "Broken Hyperlinks" - this gives a list of all hyperlinks that go nowhere. For this report to be accurate, you must run the "Recalculate hyperlinks" under the "Tools" menu. If you have a lot of off-site targets, be prepared to give up access to your computer for ten minutes or so.

Some general hints on how to get appearance to help structure and navigation:

• Make all menus look the same, and put them in the same place on every page. Shared borders will accomplish this, but only works if you want the same contents everywhere, or want to use FrontPage's menu tools. Regardless, don't make folks hunt!
• Use the same image to represent the same thing throughout the site.  If you have a special image/icon you like for yourself or your site, use it as a hyperlink for your home page throughout the site. It will become recognizable as such and help with navigation. 
• Group links/menus logically.  A simple list is fine for a few pages, but grouping links logically is necessary for any site with a dozen pages or more.
• Give several ways in and out of pages. This increases flexibility and navigability.
• If you refer to another part of the site, link to it! It is not necessary to use "See the reference on page 4 of the section on Appendages" when a simple hyperlink will take them there instantly!

Publishing

The process of publishing is relatively simple. Once you have your site in good condition, and have tested it thoroughly by previewing through your browser, You're ready to go "live" and show off your work. Publishing can be done any number of times - it is possible to always work locally and publish changes, though publishing takes longer than working "live."

Select "Publish Web" from the "File" menu.

Type the complete URL of your website. "Browse" will only work if you have opened your website previously - see Opening Your Website "Live." If you have done this, your website will be listed under "Web Folders." Otherwise, you'll have to type it in. Select "Publish changed pages only" if your site is already working. Select "Publish all pages..." if your site is brand new or if it crashed. You will be presented with a login screen. Enter your Fayette Domain username and password. If the site will not accept your username and password, try Opening Your Website "Live." first. If that doesn't work either, contact your school webmaster or STC.

If you are successfully verified, you should see the screen at the right as your site is published - it should take a while, especially if its the first time.