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Themes
Applying your Theme - Part 1

Front Page 2002 comes with 67 themes that can be applied either to the whole website or to individual pages. You can even use more than one Theme in the same website on different pages.

Various elements within your web will then have a consistent look to them. Your pages will have co-ordinated graphical elements, font styles, colors etc.

When you apply a Theme to your website, FrontPage creates some hidden folders with all the theme information in. To view these folders click on Tools/Web Settings - then the Advanced Tab. Check the box that says show hidden files and folders.

show hidden files and folders

FrontPage will then say it needs to refresh the web ... let it. You will now be able to see the folders in folders view.

If you modify any part of the Theme, on the Modify dialog box you will see two buttons, Save and Save As.

the "save" buttons

After the first modification you make, click on the Save As button and save the Theme under a different name.

You will  now be working with that copy. Any further modifications, then you can just click on the Save button. The modified Theme will now be available should you wish to make further modifications, use it for other webs or to remind you of any settings made, whilst preserving the original Theme.

Once you have applied the Theme to your web, you can at a later stage change to a different Theme or remove it altogether. Just click on Format/Theme on the main toolbar to call up the Theme Wizard.

Format/Theme

Any customisation to a Theme is applied to all pages using that Theme. You cannot change an item of the Theme and only apply that change to selected pages. The Theme itself can be applied to individual pages, but not the modifications - they are global. If you wish some modifications to be applied to only selected pages, then save the Theme under a different name with those new modifications, applying the new Theme to the required pages.
 

apply theme:  Part 2
 

 

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