G'day
Welcome to the Sleek Grey
Web Template for FrontPage 98 and 2000.
(Written
for FrontPage 2000)
This web 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 into the cell.
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.
I made this Web Template because
this is a fairly complicated theme.
By using this template you shouldn't have any
trouble creating a new web with the Sleek
Grey theme and all the "extras"
automatically applied for you. It will look just like
this one (for those reading this on my website).
All that you have to do is add your content and add or delete
any pages to make this web more suitable to your needs.
Firstly please click File | Preview in Browser
(you might have to connect to the Internet) to have a look
at this web to see how it all works.
Now you can work out what pages you want to
add or delete.
How to delete a page from this web.
Open the Navigation View by pressing the button
named "Navigation" in the toolbar to the left.
You will now be looking at this web's navigation structure in the
main panel and the folders and files in the
side panel.
Click on the page that you want to remove and then press Edit |
Delete (X) from the toolbar.
How to add a page to this web.
Firstly you will notice that the titles of each
page that are on the Same Level as this one in this
web appear on the buttons on the navigation bar to the left. This
is because I've already dragged and dropped each page into the navigation
view.
Next we will add a new page
to this web.
In FrontPage 2000 press "File"
and then press "New Page". You will now have
a long list of page templates to choose from.
Click "PV
Sleek Grey".
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".
Please note: The navigation
bars are set at various levels throughout this web to compensate for
different page's navigation level.
If you have a look at the navigation view again
you will see that all the pages that are on the Same Level
as this Read Me First page, their page titles appear
on the left vertical navigation bar.
This web's pages use 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 web template has been thoroughly tested
to work properly with both Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator versions 4 and higher browsers.
For additional support please
go here http://www.vineburg.com.au/support.htm
Paul Vineburg
