Display each of these toolbars by clicking VIEW | TOOLBARS and selecting the toolbar.
Remember that a toolbar can be floating or docked and can be re-positioned at
any time.
If you are an experienced user of Word or PowerPoint, you will be very
comfortable with the drawing toolbar in FrontPage and will be pleased to know
that these features are available for use in the html format. Open a blank page
to experiment with using WordArt, textboxes, and the shadow options. And
the arrows! The autoshapes! The usual Draw commands are
available from the drop-down menu next to Draw. The down side of using
these features in FrontPage is that they create a great deal of code, as well as
a companion folder that must also be uploaded. (I could have created the arrows
below with these tools; instead, the toolbar and arrows are in one image created
in an image-editing application.)
If you want to put text directly on a picture,
click the text tool (as usual, an A). You will see a warning that this process
will change your image from a jpg to a gif. Experiment to see if this decreases
the quality of your picture. You're better off using an image-editing
application.
The next icon is the autothumbnail process
(discussed in the autothumbnail handout).
Although you can do this manually in an image-editing application, this is so
much easier!
The next icon is the position absolutely tool, which is handy when you
don’t want the picture to be affected by some of the many variables of html. Caution:
Be sure to preview this feature in different browsers at different resolutions.
The crop tool works just like it does in Word and PowerPoint to
remove unwanted
edges of your image; however, you must understand that this procedure does not
actually crop your picture—it crops your view of the picture. The picture
remains the same “weight.”
The next icon with an arrow is the set transparent color tool.
It is one of my favorites. You will often have a clip art image with a tacky
fill. If the image is
in the gif format--and has never been in the jpg format, you can use this
tool. In the edit version of this page, click the first image
below, click the SET TRANSPARENT COLOR tool, and then click the little pen on the gray background.
Presto! Click here for more detailed information
about transparent images.
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Opaque Fill |
Transparent fFll |
The last icon with an arrow is the rectangular hotspot tool,
which is used to create a link on an image map.
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