How to Add a Marquee to a Web Page With FrontPage

Marquees scroll text automatically across a Web page. Viewable in Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.x and above, marquees are an interesting special effect. These instructions use Microsoft FrontPage 97.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Microsoft FrontPage

1. Start the FrontPage program and open an existing web.
2. Choose Show FrontPage Editor from the Tools menu, or click on the FrontPage Editor icon on the toolbar.
3. Open the page to be edited and position the cursor where the marquee will be placed.
4. Choose Marquee from the Insert menu. A dialog box appears.
5. Type the text that will scroll across the page in the Text box.
6. Choose the properties of the marquee using the dialog box options. Click OK when finished. A box will appear on the Web page, but the text will not scroll yet.
7. Click once on the box and choose Font from the Format menu. Change the font, size and color as desired and click OK.
8. Double-click on the box to make any changes to the marquee.
9. Save the page when finished.
10. Preview the page in a Web browser by choosing Preview in Browser from the File menu. From the dialog box, choose which browser to use and what settings.

Tips & Warnings

• The Direction radio button allows you to change the direction the text scrolls from. The default is left.
• Movement Speed determines the speed the marquee moves at.
• Behavior determines how the marquee text will move. With Scroll, the text begins on one side and scrolls to the other. Sliding text slides in from one side and stops, while Alternate creates a marquee that will bounce back and forth between the borders of the box.
• Use Align if the marquee is next to a line of text.
• Change the width and height, if desired. The marquee is set to the needed defaults.
• Change the Repeat option if you want the marquee to stop after a certain number of times scrolling across. (This is a good idea; an endlessly repeating marquee can get annoying for viewers.)
• Change the background color to match a colored background if desired.