For a fee, we will purchase the software and come to your location for a hands-on tutorial. We'll install the software for you, and show you how to do all of the steps below. You can then refer to this page for assistance in the future.

If you are a little more computer-savvy, this page may be all you need. Beware, however, in getting in over your head. Always create page back-ups if you are not entirely confident in your abilities. Fixing your errors is something we do have to bill for.

1- Install Front Page on your computer.

2- Open Front Page.

3- Open your website remotely. Go to File>Open Site. In the box at the bottom where is says "site name" type in the URL of your website... http://www.yourdomain.com.

4- Enter your username and password when prompted.

5- This will open your website in the Front Page application. It may take a while as you are now working remotely from the server computer. When it is complete you will see a list of folders and files on the left, and a major part of the screen on the right will be blank.

6- On the list of files on the left, double click on the page/s you wish to open and edit. The page will open and display in the blank area on the right. (Again, all processes may take a while depending on your hard drive speed, your internet connection speed, etc.)

7- When you see the page open on the right, make any changes you need to the text. Highlight old text, delete or edit as necessary. Under “Format” in the top menu bar you can format font, paragraph and other attributes. This all works very similarly to Microsoft Word.

8- To insert an image, click on Insert>Picture>From File. Browse to the location on your hard drive where you have the image, and click to select it. This will place the image on your website. Click "Save" to save the page, and it will collect the image and save it within the site on the server. Designate a location to save the image in (usually in the images folder of the site) and rename the file if needed.

You can modify the image in FrontPage. Click on the image to bring up tab "handles" little black dots at the corners of the image. Click to drag the image to make it smaller or larger. You can also right-click the image, and select "Picture Properties". Here you can modify the image.

You want to keep in mind that you are working online and want your website to download quickly and efficiently. You should prepare your images for web viewing by reducing file size, using a web safe color palette, and save as a jpg or gif as is most appropriate. If you do not have the software to do this, I would suggest letting us do it for you. Your images should be prepared for online viewing to save on page download time.

9- To add a hyperlink to text or image, simply select the text or image that you want to use as the link, and right click. Select "Hyperlink Properties". This will bring up a box where you can enter the destination page. For example, if you have text or an image that says "Click here to learn more", select the text or image, right click, select Hyperlink Properties, and then enter in the URL of the page you would like the user redirected to when they click that text or image.

Be careful! You are working remotely and as you make changes, it is changing it on the internet. There is no “undo” once you have made changes.

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