Adding a link to your webpage with FrontPage 2000

Opening an existing web with FrontPage 2000

First, you'll need to start FrontPage and open the web you created earlier.  To do this, launch FrontPage and then pull down File, Open Web..., to get a window like that below.  Note that the main folder is the My Webs folder, and within that, I have selected the 591 folder.  Now I simply click on the Open button.

Note: I presume that most people who are using FrontPage 2000 (on a PC) are working on a personal system rather than a University system, so they can store their web files on the hard drive.  On a separate web page I will address how to download your webpages onto a PC in order to edit them with FrontPage 2000.

Now you can open a file to edit in the usual way, pull down File, Open, and so on.

Adding a link to a page you already created

For example, you may use Word to create a web page and store it in the folder of the My Webs folder in which your current web pages are located.  Now you want to make a link from your index.html file to the new page.  If you type the text of the link, then click the hyperlink icon , you may be surprised to see that FrontPage has not realized that you just saved a new web page in the current web's folder.  What you need to do is to refresh FrontPage's file list.  To do this, pull down View and select Folder List (there is an icon that will do the same thing).  This will show all the files in your current web.  Now pull down View and select Refresh.  This should refresh the list of files in the folder view.  Now go back to your web page, highlight the text of the link, click on the hyperlink icon and proceed:

In this window, you can either type the full URL of an http site or double click on the file that you want to link to.

Adding a link to a page you create with FrontPage 2000

At the point where you want the link to be, type the text of the link, highlight it, and click the hyperlink icon .  You'll get the window below, where I would select Normal Page and click OK.

Type whatever you want in the new web page.  Then pull down File, Save, and get a window like this one:

It seems that FrontPage uses the first line of your webpage to propose a name for the file, which is very helpful.  If you have inserted any image files, the next screen will look like:

It seems that FrontPage plans to save these images in the images folder; very sensible.  The Macintosh FrontPage 1.0 doesn't put them in the images folder by default (even though it creates such a folder).  Be careful!  The image names COULD overwrite images that are already in that folder.