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Web Pages Can Hold Many Kinds of Elements

FrontPage's menus and toolbars go a long way towards helping you create, edit, and add content to your Web pages. Figure Web 1.5 shows one set of FrontPage's options that appear when you select Insert, Web Component. You can add such items as an Excel worksheet to the Web page you are creating or editing.

To add one of the objects anywhere on your Web page, select the object and FrontPage places the object on the Web page. You then can drag the object to its proper location and size the control to the size you require. Unlike desktop-publishing programs and visual programming systems such as Visual Basic, FrontPage does not initially place the control in the center of the form but places the controls side-by-side as you choose them. You then can drag and resize them as needed.

The Insert, Form menu option produces a large set of items you can include on your Web page. Here is a description of each item that you can include:

• Form— A rectangular form that acts as a separate table on your Web page

• One-line text box— An area where the Internet user can type and edit information on the Web page

• Scrolling text box— A multiline text box the user can scroll left, right, up, or down to read the full contents (select Insert, Form, Text Area to locate the scrolling text box)

• Check box— An option the user can click to add (select) or remove (deselect) a check mark

• Radio button— An option the user can click to select or deselect the option; only one radio option button can be selected in a single page frame, not unlike the old car radios that allowed for only one radio station button to be pressed in at any one time

• Drop-down menu— A menu that opens from its one-line station on the Web page

• Push button (sometimes called a command button)— A button the user can click to trigger an action such as the playing of a sound clip

• Picture— A graphic image you want to place on the page

• Label— A text box into which you can place and format text, such as a title or instruction header

Without programming in HTML, you can place tables, graphics, and hyperlinks (links to other Web pages that the user can click to select) by clicking the Insert Table, Insert Graphic, and Create or Edit Hyperlink toolbar buttons that appear on the toolbar beneath the menu. More advanced Web-page components, such as animation and sound clips, still require that you master HTML.