NEW PAGE TEMPLATE

[RICHARD BROMBERG]

I am using FrontPage 2000 to build a web site.

The site has many pages and each one has a company logo and a few words of
text at the top and a copywright notice at the bottom.

Each time I begin constructing a new page I have been cutting (actually
copying ) and pasting these from an otehr file and then adding content to
tne new page .

Is there some way I can set up something like a template so when I click
File / New / Page the new page will automatically contain these items.

I use templates in MS Word And Excel but can't find any way to use them in
Front Page.

Thanks

 

[Fuse News]

What we do, which might work for you, is design and build the template and
all it's structures, including photos text as a new web page. Then create a
directory called templates from the root of your web. Then save that page
to that directory. Then when you need to create a new page, you browse to
that directory and open that template. The reason we do it this way, is we
have several templates which we use for the site. This directory also
allows others that have rights to create pages to open this directory up and
grab that template. It also creates a central directory so if the templates
ever gets updated, the other users who uses those templates always get the
newest one without having to worry about saving them to a directory of their
own and remembering to where that directory is.

 

[RICHARD BROMBERG]

Not bad, but what I would really like is something where changing the
template would automatically change all the web pages that were defined
using the template.

 

[Fuse News]

That would be the dynamic templates. However, from what I've heard, they
sometimes work and sometimes do not.

Here's what we do in full layout.

We have five areas for the main templates. The areas are:
Header
Right-Side Navigation
Left-Side Navigation
Footer
Main body.

We then design each one of the above as a seperate page. Then the Main Body
template get the Header, Right-side, Left-side Navigation and Footer
attached by the Include Page feature. Then when you update either the
include pages, it updates for the entire site. We also make sure to use CSS
for the styles of the site. This give you another way to format and control
the overall look and feel of the site.

 

[RICHARD BROMBERG]

Okay
I'll use the first method you suggested.

Thanks

 

[SandyB]

Hi Richard,
This is what I use the shared borders for. You can have your top border
with logo and a dynamic page banner and navagation and the left shared
border can be used for the navagation, the botton for footer with copyright
and contact info. The right you can use for ads if you want. You can
change one part and it will change on all the pages that use that border.

some of my front page sites:
http://www.coconutpalace.net
http://www.kamalani.org
http://www.rednecklife.us
http://www.bluehawaiibeads.com

They are all a little different,


I am learning CSS sites, but the FP is so easy it is hard to give it up.

SandyB