User Guide

TOPIC G

Applying a Theme to an Entire Web

Up to this point, you’ve been beautifying your web one step at a time—adding page back-

grounds, text formatting, tables, and images. In this topic, you will learn how to apply all of

these at the same time to your entire web, using a set of pre-packaged, predesigned graphical

elements that comes with FrontPage.

Content may be king, but if the emperor isn’t clothed properly, few people will want to look at

him, let alone listen to what he has to say. The same thing goes for your web. You might have

the best content in the world, but if it isn’t presented in an engaging, consistent, and pleasing

manner, people will look elsewhere to ﬁnd similar information that meets these criteria. But

who are we kidding? It takes a lot of time to dress up your web properly, or does it? Using

FrontPage to enhance the look of your web is like having an interior decorator work on your

house. In both cases, the results are likely to be professional and pleasing to all who see it.

Apply a Theme to an Entire Web

Procedure

Reference:

A theme is a set of complementary graphical design elements that you can

apply to a web to give it an overall, consistent, and professional look. You can

choose from over 50 themes that come with FrontPage.

Themes can affect colors (text, hyperlinks, table borders, and page back-

grounds), graphics (background pictures, bullets, horizontal lines, link bars, and

page banners), and styles (font styles and sizes for heading and text) for either

selected pages or all pages in a web. Figure 4-3 shows how elements, like link

bars, are affected by themes.

Figure 4-3: Link bar without a theme applied (left) and the same link

bar with a theme applied (right).

Applying a theme to your entire web enables you to quickly format each page

at the same time, and develop a consistent appearance without having to alter

each page manually. Note that when you apply a theme, unless you’ve speci-

ﬁed otherwise, it overwrites the background formatting that you’ve already

applied and formats the page using the theme’s elements. To apply a theme to

an entire web:

If necessary, open the web to which you want to apply the theme.

Choose Format→Theme.

In the Themes dialog box, under the Apply Them To option, select All

Pages.

LESSON 4

Lesson 4: Adding Visual Appeal to a Web

Reference Material

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