G'day

Welcome to the Sleek Grey Page Template for FrontPage 98 and 2000. 

(Written for FrontPage 2000)

This page template will work correctly in FrontPage 98 and FrontPage 2000.
However, when editing this template please note that FrontPage 2000 adds a 2 pixel transparent area to all the Components (Banner, Navigation bar, Hit Counter, Frontlook Applets etc.). FrontPage 98 does not.  

Why Bill, @#%*#!  why?

This is a Microsoft documented FrontPage 2000 "bug"

Please visit here to see what you can do to this theme by adding text or a logo to the extra graphics.  You can do it right here in FrontPage by clicking on the graphic and then selecting  A (add text) from the image editing toolbar below. Just like I've done to the graphic (Put your LOGO here!) on this page. (tutorial).
You can also add a Frontlook Applet

Please note: This theme's template is made from many tables who's cells have background pictures to "fill in the gaps" when a theme's components (Banner or Navigation bars) are not used and for when the page is viewed with high resolution monitors.  Please be aware that a table cell MUST have some content (text, picture, component or even 2 or more empty key spaces will do) for it's background picture to display correctly in the Netscape browser.  So........ If you remove a cell's content be sure to replace it with something else.  I  recommend that you insert the cell's actual background picture into the cell itself because then the cell will retain it's height and / or width size.  Ok.  

Frontlook Applet 

This page has a Frontlook Applet (Vertical Ticker) above the left navigation bar.  
You must have Frontlook installed on your computer to be able to use it.  Double click it to initiate it and edit it.  

If you wish not to use it just click it and delete it. The applet is contained in a table cell which has a background image.  
You can insert any of the Frontlook Applets into this table cell or you can just type some text,  insert your logo, insert a graphic or just delete it all together.  
Or you can insert the sgyappletsub.gif graphic (below) into the cell.

If you are not using this page template in the PV Sleek Grey Web template you will need to save the below graphic into your web's "hidden"  _applets folder so as the applet will work.  

Very Important 

It's very difficult to get a theme such as Sleek Grey to work within both IE and Netscape browsers.  Basically what works in one browser doesn't necessarily work in the other, especially table content.  

I had a Hell of a job getting this theme to work in FrontPage and both browsers.  It has been thoroughly tested and I GUARANTEE that it will work for you too so long as you only change the page's content and DO NOT remove any of the FrontPage Components (Banner, Navigation bar, Hit Counter, Frontlook Applets etc.) or graphics.  

How to add a this page to a web. 

You will notice that there is no banner and buttons, just writing.
This is because we haven't saved,  or added our new page to the navigation structure yet. 

Now save the new page and type in the URL as newpage.htm and type in the Title as New Page (you can name these anything you want).

Open the Navigation View by clicking the Navigation button on the toolbar to the left.  Then drag newpage.htm from the side panel into the main window and connect and drop it at your desired navigation level.  

That's all there is to it.  

I have made a detailed tutorial (FrontPage 98) with pictures and all on how to add new pages to the navigation structure.  It's available here http://www.vineburg.com.au/adding_pages.htm
Also see here http://www.frontpagestuff.com/web_template1.htm for lots more template information and help.  

Now double click on "New Page" in the navigation view and this will open and refresh the page in the main window.   
You will now see that the banner says "New Page" and all the buttons, including the one named "New Page" (if you placed it on the same level as this page) has been added to the navigation bar too. 

If you double click on the vertical navigation bar to the left you will see that I have set it at "Same Level", "Vertical" and "Buttons".  

This page uses nested tables with tilling background images so as to appear to stretch or shrink to accommodate any browser size.

I recommend that a web made with the Sleek Grey theme and template be viewed by browsers set at 600 x 800.

This page template has been thoroughly tested to work properly with both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator versions 4 and higher browsers.   

For the hit counter to work you must save or cut and paste this graphic   into this web's main directory (folder), do not put it into the images folder, unless you change the directory path in the hit counter's properties box eg.  images/sgvcounter.gif