How to add same text to every page

[Erica]

My company currently has a web site. We'd like to add our name and address to the bottom of each page, without having to manually type this in on every page. Is there some sort of "master page" we can add this to? Thank you for your help!

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You can use Web Parameters. Go to Tools|Site Settings, and the Parameters
tab. From there you can add any text values and put them into any pages you
want. When you change the parameter value,k it reflects in all pages it is
included in.

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

My company currently has a web site. We'd like to add our name and address

to the bottom of each page, without having to manually type this in on every
page. Is there some sort of "master page" we can add this to? Thank you for
your help!

 

[Erica]

Thanks for your reply...but I have to admit, I'm very new at this. I looked under the parameters and am unsure as to what to put in the "name" and "value" spots. The help feature was not so helpful! Can you help me further? Thank you!!

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Sure Erica. A parameter has a name that is used to identify the parameter
from the collection of web parameters. The value is the text that the
parameter represents.

To insert the parameter into a page using FP 2003, use the Insert Menu, Web
Component...Included Content > Substitution. Then select the parameter from
the list of parameter names. The text will be inserted, and will change any
time you change the value of the parameter.

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

Thanks for your reply...but I have to admit, I'm very new at this. I

looked under the parameters and am unsure as to what to put in the "name"
and "value" spots. The help feature was not so helpful! Can you help me
further? Thank you!!

 

[Erica]

Kevin.....thank you very much for being patient with me! Your help was much appreciated!

 

[Jim Buyens]

1. Choose Shared Borders from the Tools menu.
2. Set Apply To to All Pages.
3. Click the Bottom check box.
4. Click OK.
5. Open any page in the same FrontPage Web site.
6. You should see a new border area at the bottom of the page.
Enter your text on that area, and then choose Save from the File menu.

Whatever you enter in the shared border of one page will appear in the
shared border of all pages.

If you want to use the Substitution component, that's OK too, but you'll
somehow need to add that component to every page.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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My company currently has a web site. We'd like to add our name and address

to the bottom of each page, without having to manually type this in on every
page. Is there some sort of "master page" we can add this to? Thank you for
your help!

 

[JCO]

Of course you still have to add the parameter (variable) in every page that
you want the text to be displayed in. However, if you have to change the
text, you only change it in the one location... and they all change.

 

[CJ]

My company currently has a web site. We'd like to add our name and address
to the bottom of each page, without having to manually type this in on every
page. Is there some sort of "master page" we can add this to? Thank you for
your help!

You could set up a Dynamic Web Template if you're using FP2003..check the
help file - I use them frequently.

CJ

 

[Andrew Murray]

Probably already you have these mentioned by other Group members, however:

You're thinking of either Server Side Includes, the Frontpage Include Page
component or Shared Borders.

[Shared Borders:]
Shared borders are easiest to implement - Format menu > shared border, then apply
which ever one (left,right,top, bottom) you want, and click 'current page' or
'all pages'....then in design view, put the content in the part above the dotted
line (which 'represents' the shared page).

[Include Content component]
With theFrontpage include component, you create a separate page ('master page' as
you call it is an apt definition). So you create the content on the master page,
save it as whatever.htm and then Insert menu > Web Component > Included Page
Content and then specify the filename of the page you just created
it will show up in every page, but you have to physically go to every page and
repeat the Insert>Web componpent procedure for each page you want the included
content on.

[Server Side Includes]
Server Side Includes (SSI) depends on if your host supports it, and not all
support including of all file types (some allow only .txt i.e. may not allow
htm - but for your purpose a text file (created in notepad) will do fine if all
you want to do is add contact details at the foot of every page.

Insert the code (in every page) something like : <!-- #include
virtual="whatever.htm"--> at the place you want the included page to appear,
where "whatever.htm" is the name of your file.


The drawback on any of methods 2 & 3 is you have to insert the code manually
into each and every page (and you mentioned you didn't really want to edit every
page.....in this case you might have to anyway :-|

Shared Borders - you can apply the border(s) to all pages without actually
opening all pages.....it is the quicker method.

My company currently has a web site. We'd like to add our name and address to

the bottom of each page, without having to manually type this in on every page.
Is there some sort of "master page" we can add this to? Thank you for your help!

 

[JCO]

Very nice add on.
Thanks. Although I never originated the question, sure appreciate your
thoughal answer.

Probably already you have these mentioned by other Group members, however:

You're thinking of either Server Side Includes, the Frontpage Include Page
component or Shared Borders.

[Shared Borders:]
Shared borders are easiest to implement - Format menu > shared border, then apply
which ever one (left,right,top, bottom) you want, and click 'current page' or
'all pages'....then in design view, put the content in the part above the dotted
line (which 'represents' the shared page).

[Include Content component]
With theFrontpage include component, you create a separate page ('master page' as
you call it is an apt definition). So you create the content on the master page,
save it as whatever.htm and then Insert menu > Web Component > Included Page
Content and then specify the filename of the page you just created
it will show up in every page, but you have to physically go to every page and
repeat the Insert>Web componpent procedure for each page you want the included
content on.

[Server Side Includes]
Server Side Includes (SSI) depends on if your host supports it, and not all
support including of all file types (some allow only .txt i.e. may not allow
htm - but for your purpose a text file (created in notepad) will do fine if all
you want to do is add contact details at the foot of every page.

Insert the code (in every page) something like : <!-- #include
virtual="whatever.htm"--> at the place you want the included page to appear,
where "whatever.htm" is the name of your file.


The drawback on any of methods 2 & 3 is you have to insert the code manually
into each and every page (and you mentioned you didn't really want to edit every
page.....in this case you might have to anyway :-|

Shared Borders - you can apply the border(s) to all pages without actually
opening all pages.....it is the quicker method.

My company currently has a web site. We'd like to add our name and

address to
the bottom of each page, without having to manually type this in on every page.
Is there some sort of "master page" we can add this to? Thank you for your help!