HTML in 10 Steps or Less- P27:Welcome to HTML in 10 Simple Steps or Less. Our mission in writing this book is to provide a quick and accessible way for you to learn Hypertext Markup Language — the lingua franca of the World Wide Web. We hope this book provides a resource that beginning and intermediate HTML coders can use to improve their Web development skills. It is also our hope that it fills multiple roles as both a teaching tool and a reference once you expand your skills. | 496 Part 16 Task 233 Drawing and Formatting Shapes and Lines notes The palette displayed offers colors that match any theme that s currently applied to your Web pages. You can also access a full palette of hundreds of Web-safe colors. Resize a shape or line by selecting it and then dragging the handles - side or corner handles on shapes endpoint handles on lines and arrows - to make the shape bigger or smaller or the line arrow longer or shorter. Change the angle of a line by dragging one of the endpoints up or down. Your graphical options don t end with clip art and photos. FrontPage allows you to draw shapes and lines using the Drawing toolbar found in all Microsoft Office applications. Apply colored fills and outlines to your shapes and use various options for creating dotted and dashed lines with or without arrowheads. 1. Display the Drawing toolbar by right-clicking the currently displayed toolbar and choosing Drawing from the submenu. 2. Using the Drawing toolbar click the AutoShapes button and choose a shape category see Figure 233-1 . Figure 233-1 Choosing from five shape categories 3. From the shape category such as Block Arrows select a shape to draw see Figure 233-2 . 4. Move your mouse to the spot where you want to draw and then click and drag to draw the selected shape. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on to remove this watermark. Working with FrontPage 497 Figure 233-2 From within a category choose the shape you want to draw 5. Change the fill color or outline color of your drawn shape using the Fill Color and Line Color buttons on the Drawing toolbar. 6. To draw a line or arrow click the Line or Arrow tool and draw a straight line arrow in any direction. 7. To change the style of the line or arrow click the line or arrow you drew handles appear at both ends of the line arrow and use the Line Style or Arrow Style buttons to choose a thickness apply dots and dashes or choose from a variety of arrowheads. Figure 233-3 shows the Arrow .
