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Visio Tutorial Conceptual Web Site Diagram

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Microsoft Visio 2010

Bryton Burling

Table of Contents Opening Microsoft Visio 2010 ...................................................................................................................... 2

Getting Started .............................................................................................................................................. 3

Creating a Conceptual Web Site Diagram ..................................................................................................... 3

Analyzing the Shapes Toolbar ................................................................................................................... 3

Adding a Home Page ................................................................................................................................. 4

Adding a Web Page ................................................................................................................................... 5

Adding Text to a Web Page Shape ............................................................................................................ 6

Connecting Items in a Document .............................................................................................................. 7

Finishing Your Diagram ................................................................................................................................. 8

Design of the Diagram .............................................................................................................................. 8

Changing the Theme ............................................................................................................................. 8

Changing the Effect ................................................................................................................................... 9

Changing the Background ..................................................................................................................... 9

Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 11


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Opening Microsoft Visio 2010

Step 1. The first step you need to do is open Microsoft Visio 2010.

Step 2. To do this, click on your start button located on the desktop.

Step 3. Once there, type in Visio in the search bar and click on Microsoft Visio 2010.


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Getting Started

Step 1. After you have clicked on Microsoft Visio 2010 , the

program should open.

Step 2. To begin making a conceptual Website Diagram go to Then click on Software and Database under Template Categories.

Step 3. Under Software and Database, click on Conceptual Web Site, then click Create.

Creating a Conceptual Web Site Diagram

Analyzing the Shapes Toolbar

Step 1. Before you begin let’s take a look at what’s on the Shapes toolbar.


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Step 2. The Shapes toolbar to the left of the window is where you will find all the items needed to make a Web Site Diagram.

In this toolbar there are 4 categories: More Shapes, Quick Shapes, Web Site Map Shapes, and Conceptual Web Site Shapes.

Adding a Home Page

Step 3. To begin making a Diagram select the tab Conceptual Web Site Shapes under the Shapes toolbar.

Step 4. Under that tab select the shape

Step 5. Click and hold the Home shape and drag it

onto the document.


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Adding a Web Page

Step 6. Once you have added a home page to your diagram you can now add a web page. To do this,

click and hold web page located on the Conceptual Web Site Shapes tab, and drag it onto the

document.

The Web page shape looks like this on the document.

You can add as many Web pages as you want. For this example, 3 Web Pages are used.


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Adding Text to a Web Page Shape

Step 1. To add text to the web page, double click on the center of the web page shape.

The Shape should change from this to this

Step 2. Once the text box is visible, you may now type in whatever you want. For this example “Web Page” is used.

Step 3. To change the size of the font, right click on the text in the shape to open up the font dialog

box.

Step 4. Now you can click the font size down arrow and select a font size, or you may click in the font

size box and type in the desired font size.

or


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Connecting Items in a Document

Step 1. To connect a shape to another shape in the document, go to the tab located on the Shapes toolbar.

Step 2. Once there, click and hold and drag the line so that the top of the line snaps with the bottom of the home shape.

Step 3. To connect it to another shape, click and drag the bottom of the line and drag it to the desired

set locations on the other shape. It will snap into place.

You can do this as many times as needed and connect any number of shapes to each other. The dynamic

connector can also be used with any other shape in the shapes toolbar. This example shows it being

used 3 times.


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Finishing Your Diagram

Above are only a few shapes and objects shown, but there are many shapes and objects located

in the shapes toolbar you can use to create your web site diagram. After you have created your diagram

there are a couple things you can do to make it look more professional.

Design of the Diagram

Step 1. To change the Design of your Diagram, go to tab located on the taskbar.

Step 2. Once there, you have many options to change the way your diagram looks. You can change the

Theme and Background of the diagram.

Changing the Theme

Step 1. Under Themes, which is located under the Design tab, you can select one of the themes listed.

You can use the drop down arrows to see more themes.

Step 2. If you prefer a different theme, you can click on the option in the Themes section

and go to to create your own theme.

Here is an example of a theme.


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Changing the Effect

Step 1. You can also add effects to the diagram. To do this click on the option and chose

one of the desired effects, or you can select to create your own effect.

Here is an example of an effect.

Changing the Background

Step 1. To change the background, go to the Backgrounds section under the tab

Step 2. You can add a background or a border and titles. To add a background click Backgrounds and

then select one of the listed backgrounds in the drop down list.


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Step 3. To change the background color, return to the background drop down list after you have

selected a background, and mouse over and select the desired color.

Here is an example of a Background.

Step 4. To add a border and title, click on Borders & Titles and select from the list of Borders.

Here is an example of a border & title.


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Conclusion

You have been shown the basic features in Visio 2010 on how to create a Web Site Diagram. There are

many other shapes and feature you can experiment with to create your Web Site Diagram.

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