Web Template
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This web template will help you to easily create a web.
When you are making a new web (File / New / Web), just
be sure to select the "ProChrome" web template. You may want
to preview the web in a browser before you start working (File
/ Preview in Browser). Then, begin customizing the web
structure to fit your needs by adding and deleting pages!
To add pages, see instructions on the main.htm page
on saving a copy of the pages.
To delete pages, right-click on the page in the
Folder List and select Delete (or go to Edit / Delete).
You may wish to do this with some of the pages in this template
that you don't need.
You may change the navigation structure by going to Navigation
view.
About the Splash Page
The Splash page (default.htm) is currently the only page
in the very top level. It is also FrontPage's "home" page.
If you do not want to use the Splash page, you may delete
it from your navigation structure. If you do not want to delete
the other pages, you will have to move them. They are currently
child pages of the Splash page, so drag them to the same level
as Splash so that they are separate. Then delete the Splash
page. You will then have to create a new home page. Either
rename one of your existing pages or create a new page and
name it "default.htm". Don't forget to drag it into your navigational
structure!
You may customize the Splash page with your own text! This
page is your "home," so you may want to consider having information
like "recent news" or "how to use this site." Edit the Splash
image with your own information.
Warning: Do not change the tables!
These page templates have been carefully put together in
tables so that they will look good in Netscape and Internet
Explorer. If you want your site to look like these, do
not drag any of the main table borders! This will cause
your page to look "cut off."
About this Page Layout
Mix of One-column and Two-column
Layout
This section has two-columns. You may move this section
to any part of the page. Click within this box and go
to Table | Select | Table. Then click, hold,
and drag to where you want to place it.
If you want your whole page to be a two-column layout,
simply delete the text above and below this table.
If you don't want this two-column table, highlight
the cells, right-click, and select Delete Cells.
Left-side Info Area
This space is limited to the size of the graphic.
Be sure to limit the amount of text that you put in
there. To replace this graphic with a blank image (with
the pipe), right-click below this inner table and select
"Cell Properties." For the background graphic, select
"left_graphic_blank.gif"
Top Graphic
If you want to get rid of the top graphic, click
on it, right-click and select Picture Properties.
In the "Picture Source" field, replace "top_graphic.gif"
with "spacer.gif". Then click on the "Appearance" tab.
Uncheck the "Keep Aspect Ratio" box and type in the
width as 258 and the height as 88. Make sure that the
"Specify Size" box is checked.
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Info Box
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Put highlighted info
here! This box is useful for information
that you want to stand out!
To get rid of this
table or column, highlight these cells
and delete them.
Cascading Style
Sheet
Use the "infotitle" class for the
Info Box titles and the "infobox" class
for the info box text. This will make
your page display correctly in Netscape.
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To make more copies of the info box, you will have
to go into the HTML. Click inside the Info Box and then
go into HTML view. You will hopefully be in the correct
area and you will see a greyed-out line that says
<!-- begin info box -->. Scroll down until you can
see a similar grey line that says <!-- end info box
--> and highlight the entire section. Copy this
text. The tricky part is figuring out where to put the
code. Scroll around in HTML view and you should
see more grey lines that will give you an idea of where
you are.
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Home and Email buttons
The Home button links to your main page (not the splash
page). To link the home button to your splash page instead,
click on the Home button and type Control-K (or right-click
and select Hyperlink Properties). Then replace "home.htm"
with "default.htm".
You will have to link the E-mail button to your e-mail
address. Click on the E-mail button and type Control-K.
Then click on the envelope icon and type in your e-mail address.
If you don't want the Home or Email buttons, replace them
with the images below. Delete the Home and Email buttons,
then drag these images to replace them.
Replace home with this:
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Replace Email with this:
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Cascading Style Sheet
This theme should be applied with "cascading style sheets"
checked. The cascading style sheet in this theme controls
the font colors and sizes.
One issue that you may come across is that your first paragraph
in a table will not have any style applied. (You can tell
this when the font size seems larger than other paragraphs
on the page.) This is because FrontPage does not automatically
put the first paragraph in a table cell into HTML paragraph
tags. To fix this, either make the text into a Heading, or
go into HTML view and put a "<P>" immediately before the text
of the paragraph.
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Info Box
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To make things easier for
you, we put another info box down here! If you
want to get rid of this box, highlight these
cells and delete them. It's that easy!
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Add more content here!
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