User Guide

TOPIC D
Inserting a Custom Link Bar Web
Component
Based on the web’s navigation structure, FrontPage automatically added hyperlinks to the link
bar that you added the shared borders. This topic will show you how to insert a new link bar
and manually add hyperlinks that you choose.
Link bars based on a web’s navigation structure are very helpful because they make it easy for
folks to find stuff in your web by providing them with a consistent navigation tool; however,
before FrontPage 2002, if you wanted to have a graphical navigation bar that directed someone
to a location outside your web, you had to go through all sorts of geeky gyrations, combining
hyperlinks with images. Those days are over. FrontPage can now create link bars with custom
links, including to those pages outside your web.
Create a Link Bar with Custom Links
Procedure
Reference:
Combining the best of both worlds—text hyperlinks and link bars—you can
mix internal and external links.
1
Open the page that will contain the link bar and place the insertion point
where you want the bar.
2
Choose Insert→Navigation to display the Insert Web Component dialog
box.
3
From the Choose A Bar Type list, select Bar With Custom Links and click
Next.
4
If desired, choose an appropriate bar style and click Next. (We recom-
mend selecting Use Page’s Theme, the default.)
5
Choose between a horizontal and a vertical orientation and click Finish.
6
Name the new link bar and click OK.
7
Add links to the files you want. (Change the order of the links if desired.)
8
Click OK to insert the custom link bar.
You can reuse custom link bars in other pages in the same web by repeating
the steps 1 through 4 above, and when the Link Bar Properties dialog box is
displayed, select the bar you want from the Choose Existing drop-down list.
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