User Guide

Figure 1-5: Web site templates.

To help use these templates, FrontPage occasionally provides a template

wizard—a tool that walks you through a template step-by-step. The wizard,

like a Form Page Wizard or Corporate Presence Wizard, will prompt you to

enter information, like your company name, or to accept or reject certain page

elements, as a page or pages are being created.

In the Page Templates or Web Site Templates dialog box, wizards show a

“magic wand” on their icons.

Templates, because of their predesigned elements, can at times provide you

with a head start when creating webs or web pages. For instance, templates are

great if you only need to show your boss a “quick-n-dirty” feedback form;

however, the templates that come with FrontPage often hinder more than they

help. Frequently, you have to spend a lot of time customizing the results to ﬁt

your site’s purpose—renaming ﬁles, changing colors, graphics, text, and so on.

So even though you may think templates will save you time, in fact, they may

slow you down.

Create an Empty Web

Procedure

Reference:

Because templates can slow you down, we’re going to start our web from

scratch. Well, that’s not entirely true. We are going to use a template, the

Empty Web template to be exact, but we’re using this template only because it

contains the bare necessities to get us going. To create a new web based on the

Empty Web template:

Choose File→New→Page or Web.

LESSON 1

FrontPage 2002 – Level 1

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