Applying Conistant Format to all pages in web

[andreww]

Hi - I have been through what CSS's are, templates and now themes... and I
am still confused as to what I can do in FP2002 to get a consitent
look/format accross my web and to create web pages that all have the same
format.

What I need is for each page to have a common look - a navbar (designed in
Xara Webstyle), a heading, contact details at the bottom.. that sort of
thing... what I thought was simple stuff to do.

My latest thinking was that I would be able to crack it using themes. Now I
find the only way to create a theme is to modify an existing one. I can't
see how this would work as I can't find a way of putting things where I want
them and it would take an awfully long time.

I was wandering about templates but understand that if I change the
template, the pages created with it don't auto change... I have to reapply
the template to each one.

My next line of investigation was shared borders... is this the correct way
to go?

Surely I am missing something here?????

TIA

Andrew

 

[Ronx]

You need a template, and possibly a theme or external CSS. A template
defines the layout of the page and may include boilerplate text and position
of navigation bars; the theme or CSS defines the fonts, colours and
navigation images. (In your case, the navigation images are defined by
Xara).

You can use shared borders as a very simple template, but FrontPage includes
are more flexible.

In FP2000 and FP2002, changing the template does not affect existing pages
(except includes and shared borders) - they have to be edited individually.
In FP2003 use a Dynamic Web Template - changing this will update the
attached pages.