User Guide

Choose Format→Shared Borders.

Select whether you want the borders applied to the current page or the

entire web.

The conﬁguration of shared borders can be different for each page in a

web. For instance, just because the home page has a right-shared bor-

der doesn’t mean that every other page in the web has to have a right-

shared border.

Select where you want the shared border(s) located and, if selecting Top,

Left, and/or Right, whether or not to include navigation buttons. (See Fig-

ure 3-1.)

If you include navigation buttons in your shared borders, FrontPage

automatically inserts navigation bars for you based on the site’s naviga-

tion structure. You will create the navigation structure in a few minutes.

Set border properties. (Each shared border can have a different back-

ground color or image.)

Click OK.

Shared border content is stored in a hidden folder called _borders. To

see them, choose Tools→Web Settings and select the Advanced tab.

Under Options, check Show Hidden Files And Folders.

If you include navigation buttons in your shared borders, FrontPage automati-

cally inserts a link bar for you based on the site’s navigation structure (which

you will create shortly). If a web’s navigation structure hasn’t been deter-

mined, FrontPage will insert a placeholder requesting that the page be added to

the Navigation view; otherwise, you will see a placeholder that prompts you to

edit the link bar’s properties. To modify a link bar’s properties, just double-

click on it.

FrontPage

Compo-

nents

FrontPage components, formerly called webbots, are prefabricated elements

that you can easily insert in your pages. They add functionality without requir-

ing you to have an in-depth knowledge of HTML or programming languages.

Some common components are comments, page banners, date and time

stamps, and link bars. In Page view, you can identify an item as a component

by placing the mouse pointer over it. If the mouse pointer icon changes to a

ﬁnger pointing at a page

, then you’re looking at a component.

You can also identify a component by looking at a page’s HTML.

LESSON 3

FrontPage 2002 – Level 1

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