FrontPage FAQ
Article ID: KB101196
Before purchase questions
- Can I add more pages and change the buttons on navigation bars?
- Is the template that I'm buying fully customizable?
- Can I use the template for my business site?
- And more...
Theme questions
Installation questions
Navigation buttons/Link Bars
Flash/Swish questions
Other questions
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Theme Questions
What's the difference between themes, page templates, and web templates?
Microsoft Themes define the look of navigation buttons, page banners, fonts, font
colors, styles, horizontal rules, bullets, and a few other features. By applying a
theme to your web, all of these features will be changed. Microsoft Page Templates,
on the other hand, specify a specific page layout. They may incorporate Theme elements
(for example, navigation bars), but have a pre-defined page design. It is then up to you
to add your own content and create a web site with more pages. Microsoft Web
Templates help you to create a new web. Using a Web Template will create a web that
has a certain navigational structure in place already, with several pre-designed pages.
Using the Web Template will help you to get started; it is then up to you to add your content
and add or delete pages.
I applied the theme to my page, but it doesn't look anything like
the screenshot in your catalog.
It sounds like you are only using the theme, not the included page or web template.
Read the explanation in the paragraph above to learn about the differences, and
visit our tutorials to find out how to use a page or web template.
The theme does not automatically apply when I create a new web.
There may be several reasons that this occurs. One is that the developer did not program the
web template to automatically apply the theme. Another possibility is that the theme was
packaged with an old version of the installer, which did not correctly name web template folders.
You can easily fix this by browsing to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs
and adding a ".tem" extension to the template's folder name. For example, change
"computer" to "computer.tem" - this should fix the problem.
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Installation Questions
After installing FP2003, I can no longer find my old themes and templates.
Please see our tutorial page.
I receive an error when I double-click on the installer icon.
I have a non-English version of Windows/FrontPage and my
templates are not showing up in my list.
Installation issues are covered on our
downloading page.
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Navigation buttons/Link Bars
My navigation buttons don't show up;
I only get text hyperlinks.
You may need to apply the theme. Go to Format/Theme and it will probably have "No
Theme" selected. Select the desired theme.
After I add a new page, I don't have navigation buttons.
You will need to add your new page to the navigation structure.
Go to Navigation View, and drag your page from the folder list into the nav structure.
Also, you may need to edit the nav/link bar properties to reflect the correct level of pages that you are trying to link to.
Please go to our tutorials on navigation bars to learn more.
I have a gap after my vertical navigation bar.
The last button on my vertical navigation bar is misaligned.
It's possible that there is some space between the vertical navigation and a table cell.
Click on the vertical bar, then go to HTML view. You should see the HTML code for the
vertical bar highlighted. It will look something like:
<!--webbot .... >
After that line, you will probably see something like:
</TD>
Delete the extra spaces between the two lines so that you have something like:
<!--webbot .... ></TD>
My buttons don't have rollover effects when I preview the page.
If you are in Preview mode of FrontPage, this is normal. Preview mode does not
show rollover effects. If you go to File/Preview In Browser and view your page in
a normal browser, the rollover effects should work. Otherwise, go to Format/Theme and make sure
that the "Active Graphics" box is checked.
I see white areas in Preview Mode where the navigation buttons should be.
This is probably because the developer used a transparent gif as a button image.
Go to File/Preview In Browser and view your page in a normal browser.
Your page will probably look fine. If not, then contact the developer.
On my server, there are black boxes instead
of text on the navigation buttons and/or page banners.
Please see our article.
How do I change the buttons or the text on my navigation bars?
The navigation/link bars are generated by Microsoft FrontPage. In 2000, the navigation bars
are generated based on your navigation structure. Please view our tutorials on navigation
bars. You may change the text on a button by changing the Page Title in navigation view.
In 2002, you may create custom link bars. You may also choose the style of the buttons --
you may use the page's theme, or a different theme, or text styles. Please view our
tutorials on navigation bars.
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My template uses "Flash text," but I
can't see my own text in FrontPage or on my computer.
This is a Flash 6 Player issue. With some of the releases of the new
Flash player plug-in, your Flash text will show up fine after you
publish to a server, but will either not appear or have "default"
taglines in FrontPage's Normal View and Preview in Browser.
I am using a template with a Swish movie. I modified the .swi but the
changes are not showing up on my web site. What's wrong?
The movie that is embedded in the web page is an ".swf" file. You will
need to go to File > Export > SWF and export your changes into the .swf
format. Replace your existing movie in the web.
We have a
tutorial in our support area on how to edit Swish movies that come in a
template if you'd like to learn more.
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After installing FP2003, I can no longer find my old themes
and templates.
Please see our tutorial page.
My new web is missing the shared borders.
There may be several reasons that this occurs. One is that the developer did not program the
web template to automatically apply the shared border. Another possibility is that the theme was
packaged with an old version of the installer, which did not correctly name web template folders.
You can easily fix this by browsing to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs
and adding a ".tem" extension to the template's folder name. For example, change
"computer" to "computer.tem" - this should fix the problem.
I see white (or some other solid color) areas in
Preview Mode where there should be a table background.
This is probably because the developer used a transparent gif as a table background.
Developers occasionally have to do this if there are backgrounds that go across several
table cells. Some versions of Netscape have a bug that cause table backgrounds to tile
within each cell unless the cell background is specified to be a transparent image.
Go to File/Preview in Browser and the page should look fine.
My page no longer resizes properly.
I accidentally messed up the table structure of the page and now I can't get it back.
You probably inadvertently dragged a table line, which will "freeze" the table
at a certain width, making it no longer resizable. The easiest way to fix this is to
copy your content into another page that works properly, then "Save As" over the
page you want to replace.
I made a new web, but some of the pages have a weird table
with bullets on the left and text pushed all the way over to the
right.
Sometimes FrontPage will create a bullet list in a weird table. All
you have to do is highlight the cells of the table and delete them,
then insert your own bulleted list.
The HTML for a new table will look something like:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Your text here</td>
<td>Your text here</td>
</tr>
</table>
By default, FrontPage does not put your text inside of "paragraph
tags," so styles are not applied to the first text that you put into
a table cell. To fix this issue, insert the <p> and </p> tag around
your first paragraph in HTML view so that it looks something like:
<table>
<tr>
<td><p>Your text here</p></td>
<td><p>Your text here</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
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