The Top 3 Things You Should Know How to Do in FrontPage

Article ID: KB101582

1. Preview in Browser!
   The "Preview" tab is notorious for causing skipped heart-beats when something "looks funny" to a user. Table cell colors, transparent gif colors, table layouts... occasionally, FrontPage's "Preview" will not work as it should. Your best bet is to go to File > Preview in Browser and look at the site in an actual Internet Explorer or Netscape window. In fact, you should download different browsers (Netscape, Opera, and various versions of each) as you build your site so that you can test your site. We generally leave our Preview Window open and "refresh" it as we make changes.
2. Publish to a sub-web.
   Do you have an existing web site? If so, then you can test your site out -- and have others test it -- by publishing your web site to a temporary folder on your existing site. This means that you don't have to worry about overwriting your existing site, no one but you will know it's there (unless you tell others), and you can easily delete it when you're done testing. To do this, go to File > Publish and type in your URL as usual, but add a subfolder at the end: http://www.yoursite.com/subfoldername, for example. (The subfolder doesn't have to exist already -- if it's new, FrontPage will ask if it can create a new web there.) Go ahead and publish your web as usual, then preview the URL in a browser and test it out.
3. Choose user-friendly fonts.
   If you are editing HTML text (i.e., not using pictures that have text on them), you will want to make sure that you choose user-friendly fonts. In order for HTML text to display in a certain font, the viewer will have to have the font on their system. This is why you see so many sites using Arial, Verdana, or Times New Roman for their HTML text -- those fonts are virtually guaranteed to be on everyone's system. If you try to use a fancy font, like "BrushScript" or "Halloween," it's very possible that people who don't have that font will not be able to view it. Instead of the "cool" effect that you were going for, they'll see something in a default font (usually Times New Roman) -- which usually clashes with the rest of your page. If you want to have a fancy font for a logo or heading, you should create an image using an image editor and insert the image into your web page instead.

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