Basic Instructions for Front Page Express
Front Page Express is a basic HTML editing program that comes with Internet Explorer 4 and 5. If you don’t find it on your computer you can download it from Microsoft.
It’s a easy program to use to do basic things such
as making non scrolling stationery. If
you want to add things to it… visit my Links Page and from there go to Sven’s
site, he has some tools that you can use with Front Page Express and very good
directions for using them too.
First you have to create your background
graphic. I have covered this in my
basic tutorials for Paint Shop Pro.
After you have saved the image, I suggest you save it right in your
stationery folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery),
open up FPE.
Right click in the middle of the screen, when the
menu pops up, select page properties.
On the first page
where it says title you can type in the name of what you want to name the piece
of stationery.
Then Select the background tab at the top.
Check the box for
Background Image and then click on the browse button. Direct it to the file you saved your background image in.
Select the image that you want… Open or OK your way back to this screen.
Then click OK again. Your background image will now appear on the screen.
On the tool bar at the top, select the button that
sets a left margin. Right click again
in the middle of your screen, select page properties, click on the margin tab…
check mark the left margin button and put in the size of the width of your
border image.. (discussed in the tutorials) plus 10 pixels. This gives you a little edge of your pattern
of the actual background to set your image off.
After you have set your margin, click file/save as…
This box
appears, click on the as file button.
Direct it to save your stationery in the same file as your image. And you are all set to use your creation as
stationery.
The only problem with using Front Page Express to make
your HTML file is that you cannot move your files around and still have it
work, it must always be saved in the same folder.
If you have Outlook Express 5 There is a Stationery
Wizard that you can use to make your HTML file, set your margin and even your
font and color that allows you to move your files to any folder and as long as
they are both in the same folder it will still work.
If have also made a set of directions for getting
to the Wizard and using it.