MS FrontPage for Web Professionals

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MS FrontPage for Web Professionals

• Diane Richmond
• Web Services Manager -Truman State University

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Web Development College Style

• Sense of urgency
• Extensive experience in print publication
• Desire to stand out
• Need to be informational
• Requirement to be accessible and compatible
• Short staffing
• So much to do so little time

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Whats a Web Professional to Do?

• Analyze your audience
• Make some friends in important places
• Develop some procedures
• Print some handouts
• Hold some meetings
• Select a good product
• Leverage all its features

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Analyzing your audience
• What kind of support structure can you build?
• Skilled web professionals or content specialists
  with other duties?
• What productivity tools are the familiar with?
• Licensing options?

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Make some friends
• Build communication pathways
• Build some partnerships
• Get out and about
• Hold meetings
• Have workshops

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Procedures, handouts meetings
• Formalize the process for requesting assistance
• Formalize the process of website approval
• Website redesign meetings
• Let them know what to expect
• Get some background info / needs assessment
• Go to the drawing board
• Establish a scope of work agreement preferably
  documented

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Examples

• Decision matrix
• CMS or Site Management Tool
• Project Planning Document

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Select a good product
• In our case FrontPage
• Feature list
• Only product on the market with form handlers
• Licensing
• Powerful
• Better code these days really
• doctypes
• accessibility checking
• Dynamic Web Templates

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Leveraging FrontPage

• FrontPage maximized
• Server Extensions
• Secure Group Access
• Dynamic Web Templates
• Site Management Tools
• Web Sites to Know
• MSDN FrontPage
• FrontPage for Users

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Server Extension stuff
• Extensions yes or no?
• Advantages weve come to know and loveand hate
• Old Article good explanation
• MS White Paper not bad, pretty thorough

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Secure Group Access
• Multiple webmasters
• Staff turnover
• A/D and NT security groups
• Web-based administration
• Example

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Dynamic Web Templates
• What the heck are they?
• Dynamic Web Templates use editable regions to
  separate areas that can be edited from areas that
  are protected. Any content outside of an
  editable region is protected and cannot be
  edited.
• Using MS Office FrontPage 2003 by Colligan and
  Cheshire Que Publishing
• Design Process
• CSS make it your friend
• Lock in as much 508 compliancy as you can

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Leveraging FrontPage

• Site Management Tools
• Tasks
• Reports
• What do you want to know
• How do you want to share it
• Site-wide search and replace
• More about Dynamic Web Templates
• Creating new pages
• Updating templates
• Re-dressing an entire site

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MS FrontPage

• Its not JUST your grandmas web editor
• The sum of its parts
• Taking full advantage of what your clients
  already know
• Meet the needs of programming snobs and
  overworked secretaries at the same time
• Make your job easier

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Questions? Comments?

• Thanks!!
• Contact Me
• Truman State University Kirksville, MO
• SunGard Collegis IT Services
• Web Services Manager
• Diane Richmond
• dianer_at_truman.edu 660-785-7191