Creating and Opening Pages

In the FrontPage Editor, you can create a new page by:

• Selecting a page wizard
  
  
• Selecting a template

A page wizard creates a page based on your responses to a series of questions. For example, the Form Page Wizard creates a customized page with a form for collecting information from visitors to your Web site.

A template is a page that you use as a model for the layout or contents of a new page. Some templates serve a particular purpose, such as a Survey Form or a Press Release. These templates contain suggested layouts, contents, and comments that describe how to complete the page. Other templates, such as Two Column Page or Centered Column, are only for page layout.

Here are some of the page templates that FrontPage provides:

• The Table of Contents template creates a page with links to every page in your FrontPage web, displayed in an outline.
  
  
• The Frequently Asked Questions template creates a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
  
  
• The Guest Book template creates a page where visitors to your FrontPage web can leave there comments in a public guest book.
  
  
• The Search Page template creates a page where users can search for pages in your FrontPage web containing specified keywords.
  
  
• The Two-column Staggered Body template lays out your page in a “checkerboard” pattern.
  
  
• The Centered Body template lays out your page in a single, centered column.

  

  

  Can I add my own templates? You can turn any open page into a template. From the File menu choose Save As, and click As Template. Once you have added the template, it will be available in the list with the other Microsoft FrontPage templates.

FrontPage also includes templates for frames pages. A frames page is a page that subdivides a Web browser’s window into regions called frames. Each frame can display a separate, scrollable page. Creating frames pages is described in “Creating and Using Frames”.