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joecool

howdy, i want to create a web site for my son's cub scout pack. the site will be used to share information about upcoming pack activities i want all of the pages of the site to have the same top section, which will display a picture and buttons to navigate to the various pages of the site. ideally, if a particular section has sub-sections, clicking on the button for that section will open up a pull-down menu that will display those sub-sections for quick navigation. i would like to be able to customize the common portion of the page, for instance give it a colored background, and customize the colors of the buttons. there seem to be many ways to do this and i'm not sure which is best. can someone advise

thanks in advance

joe
 
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Kevin Spencer

Hi Joe,

Considering your level of expertise, I would recommend starting with one of
the FrontPage Web Templates, which will automatically set up an entire web
site for you of one sort or another. You can then edit the site and pages to
suit your needs. Experiment by creating several local web sites on your
machine from different Templates and see which one will be the best starting
point for you.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

joecool said:
howdy, i want to create a web site for my son's cub scout pack. the site
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will be used to share information about upcoming pack activities i want all
of the pages of the site to have the same top section, which will display a
picture and buttons to navigate to the various pages of the site. ideally,
if a particular section has sub-sections, clicking on the button for that
section will open up a pull-down menu that will display those sub-sections
for quick navigation. i would like to be able to customize the common
portion of the page, for instance give it a colored background, and
customize the colors of the buttons. there seem to be many ways to do this
and i'm not sure which is best. can someone advise?
 
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Kevin Spencer

Hi Joe,

Well, if you have FrontPage 203, you can take a stab at building one from
scratch. However, knowing how to use FrontPage, and knowing how to use HTML
are 2 different things. If you don't know much about HTML, you're going to
have trouble for awhile. But let me answer your questions and hopefully get
you started:
1) can i create a standard header that i then place on all pages, which
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contains my graphics and link buttons?

I would suggest using a Dynamic Web Template for your overall site design. A
DWT is a kind of custom template which you design, containing elements that
you want to have common to all pages, such as headers, navigation, etc., and
with which you can define Editable Regions (regions of the page in which you
can place individual content). You can apply a DWT to any or all of your
pages, and you can use multiple DWTs in the same web site if you desire.
2) can i use layout tables to do this?
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Layout tables are a good way to organize the content in a page. You can
certainly use layout tables within a DWT as well, and you can use them in
the creation of a DWT.

Good luck!

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

joecool said:
kevin,

thanks, i've played with templates a little bit but they seem kind of
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restrictive - i'm really forced to use their style and can't customize much
within that. particularly i've been unable to figure out how to change the
background color of a header or how to change the color of the buttons.
i've used fp2000 in the past so i'm not a complete newbie, tho i will admit
i'm pretty green! i just purchased fp2003 specifically for this project
hoping it would provide the level of customization i want without me having
to become a complete html expert. here's a couple of thoughts i had:
1) can i create a standard header that i then place on all pages, which
Click to expand...
contains my graphics and link buttons?
 
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Wally S

It seems to me that you are trying to start out with something complicated
when you have no experience. Assuming that you can wait a few weeks to get
the website up, I would suggest that you look at the basic FP tutorials and
start out with a simple design. Then you can gradually work your way up. You
can learn pretty fast if you work at it, and when you come across particular
problems, you can always ask on the newsgroup, but website design and
management is nitpicky, with lots of tiny details to pay attention to, and
it's going to be impossible for anyone to come up with one message that
tells you how to design a whole site.

Wally S

joecool said:
howdy, i want to create a web site for my son's cub scout pack. the site
Click to expand...
will be used to share information about upcoming pack activities i want all
of the pages of the site to have the same top section, which will display a
picture and buttons to navigate to the various pages of the site. ideally,
if a particular section has sub-sections, clicking on the button for that
section will open up a pull-down menu that will display those sub-sections
for quick navigation. i would like to be able to customize the common
portion of the page, for instance give it a colored background, and
customize the colors of the buttons. there seem to be many ways to do this
and i'm not sure which is best. can someone advise?
 
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