User Guide

TOPIC B

Creating a Shared Border

With hyperlinks added to our “connecting pages” arsenal, it’s time to turn our attention to con-

necting page content. In this topic, you will learn how you can have the same content repeated

consistently on pages in your web.

Let’s face it. Many pages include duplicate items—especially when it comes to navigation ele-

ments, logos, and boilerplate text, such as legalese and contact information. And more often

than not, repeated information is positioned in the same place on every page. You could manu-

ally add the repeating stuff to every page in your web if it were only for a few pages;

however, that’s dull and tedious work, and you may not be consistent as you go. Can you

imagine the time you would waste if your web were 100 pages? FrontPage can streamline this

monotonous task for you by requiring you to enter that information only once.

Add Shared Borders

Procedure

Reference:

A shared border is a reserved region on one or several pages in a web where

you can add content that will be displayed if the page is formatted with shared

borders. (In Page view, Shared Borders are displayed as dashed lines or boxes

along the edge(s) of a page.) For example, you might want a company logo

displayed at the top of each page, and an email link displayed at the bottom.

Figure 3-1: The Shared Border dialog box.

Shared borders are similar to headers and footers in that they contain consis-

tent information that doesn’t change throughout a web at the top and bottom of

a page. As you can see in Figure 3-1, shared borders can also be added to the

left or right sides of pages. By making a change to a shared border on one

page, you automatically update the shared border on all other pages that use it.

To set shared borders in an open web:

LESSON 3

Lesson 3: Connecting Pages

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