Datasheet

Part I ✦ FrontPage Essentials

To assign a theme, follow these steps:

1. With your Web open, select Format ➪ Theme from the FrontPage menu. You

can do this from any view.

2. Click one of the themes that appear in the Theme list on the right side of the

interface. You see a small sample of a theme provided on each button. Use the

checkboxes at the bottom to experiment with Vivid Colors, Active Graphics,

or a Background Picture, as shown in Figure 1-9.

Figure 1-9: Themes provide color schemes,

navigational icons, fonts, and colors.

3. When you settle on just the right theme to suit your image, click the button to

apply it to your Web site.

You can sneak a peek at your Web pages now by double-clicking a page in

Navigation view to open it in Page view. However, you will better appreciate the

impact of themes after you add shared borders, covered in the next section.

Themes collect many elements of global page design, two of which are font and

paragraph attributes. These attributes can also be applied through inline format-

ting or Cascading Style Sheets. (Style Sheets are covered in Chapter 11.)

Adding shared borders

Along with themes, you can apply universal characteristics to all pages in your Web

site by applying shared borders. These shared borders are often used, at least in

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