Note: This section provides help for the
NON-Dynamic templates which have been provided since
the release of FrontPage 2000. If you are using
FrontPage 2003, you may wish to refer to the Dynamic
Web Template (DWT) information. Either template
style may be used with FP2003, but the DWT format
provides benefits too good to pass up!
Viewlets - Quick Tutorials
Our viewlets are small instructional movies
showing the steps required for various procedures in
FrontPage. Many of the steps in FP2003 are also
performed in FP2000 and 2002, so you may find them
helpful if using an earlier version. NOTE:
The viewlets will open in a new window; when the
viewlet has finished, simply close the window.
Our .exe files contain all the paths necessary to
install the theme and template files directly to the
default directories for FrontPage 2000 or FrontPage
2002. To get started, simply locate your .exe file
(the one you downloaded after licensing the
template), double-click it to run the Set-Up
Program, and follow the prompts.
Where did the files actually go after I ran the
Set-Up Program?
THEME: This will be installed into your
"?:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Themes" folder. Note: Not all our templates
use themes; please read details on specific product.
WEB TEMPLATE: This will be installed into your
"?:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Microsoft\FrontPage\Webs" or "?:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs" folder.
PAGE TEMPLATE: This will be installed into your
"?:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Microsoft\FrontPage\Pages" or "?:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\pages" folder.
For FrontPage 2000: Select File, New, Web - then
select the "twc-xxxx" from the pop-up window's
listing, make note of where it will be built in the
pull-down window on the right (you may also change
the location there) - Click "OK"
For FrontPage 2002: Select File, New, Page or Web,
New from Template, Web Site Templates - then select
the "twc-xxxx" from the pop-up window's listing,
make note of where it will be built in the pull-down
window on the right (you may also change the
location there) - Click "OK"
For FrontPage 2003: Select File, New - then, on
the right side under "New Web site," select More Web
site templates. Navigate to the twc-xxx template,
which will be located under either the "General" or
"My Templates" tab - Click "OK"
You may be prompted to overwrite the desktop.ini
file; if you are, accept Yes to overwrite the file.
This has no impact on your web whatsoever.
Certainly! You can add as many as you wish!
Just use our blank page templates (our later
template versions have pages named blank.htm and/or
blank2.htm; ALL template versions come with a
FrontPage Page Template).
If your template package contains the blank.htm
files, go to the Folder List (View, Folders). Open
the template of your choice (let's assume it is
blank.htm). As soon as it is open, go to File, Save
AS... - then save it as the name you want your new
page to have. Now, go to the Navigation view (View,
Navigation). Is your Folder List open as well? If
not, the go to View, Folder LIST to open it. Next,
locate the new filename in the Folder List (it's
probably at the bottom), left click over it and
while holding down the left mouse button, drag it
over into the Navigation Structure and drop it where
you want it, so that it is underneath either the
Home page or another existing page. Repeat every
time you wish to add a new page!
If your template package does NOT contain the
blank.htm files, here's how to add a page template.
Have the web you created using the table open in
FrontPage. In "Normal" view, from any existing page,
select File, New, Page - a page template window will
pop-up. Select the twc-xxx template from the
listing. Now, name it as you wish, and save to the
current web. On the "Save Embedded Files" window,
select "Change Folder", then select the images/
directory. Next, select "Set Action", and select
"Use Existing". Save and the window will close. The
final step is to go to Navigation view (View,
Navigation) and drag the file from the Folders List
over into the diagram structure of the web (note -
if you don't have the Folder List open when in the
Navigation View, select View, Folder List from the
menu). Find the name of the file you saved,
left-click and hold the file name while dragging
over to the right in the diagram. Now, you just
replace the text as you did with the original web
template.
With the new web open in FrontPage, go to View,
Navigation. See that "organizational-chart-looking"
diagram of the files? That's where you will change
button/banner names. Simply right click over the
box with the name you want to change, select
"Rename", and type in what you want to appear on the
buttons & banners.
Please preview the template in question, and read
up on that. In general, if you can easily change
the colors, then that fact will be stated on the
introduction page of the template. Many of our
templates are graphical, and the colors can NOT be
changed unless you are very adept with a graphics
program and very familiar with theme elements, OR,
happen to have the Theme/Image Chameleon from
Frontlook.
Sure - you can do virtually anything with our
templates you can do with any web. The only thing
to make note of is the image will need to be sized
appropriately so that your template doesn't "run off
to the right" in lower resolutions!
From one of our customers: "I'm using XP. To
name the banners in Chinese, I go to CONTROL PANEL
=> REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS => LANGUAGE =>
ADVANCED => select Chinese from the dropdown menu
for "select a language to match the language version
of the non-Unicode programs you want to use". Voila!
I did it."
In order to make life easier on all of us, we
have printed in the information for each FrontPage
template the compatibility on the second line,
directly beneath the template name. EVERYTHING in
the "FrontPage 2000/2002/2003" section is designed
for use with Microsoft's FrontPage web publishing
program. You can't use our FrontPage templates with
Dreamweaver, NOF, notepad or any other web
publishing program. You can't use them with
FrontPage Express (if you are one of the rare people
that still has that long-ago dropped product).
Yes! Our HTML templates are compatible with ANY
web publishing program - FrontPage (any version),
DreamWeaver, SoThink HTML, NOF, etc.
Ahhhhh... Sounds like you've skipped the most
important step! The .swi file you opened and
revised is a raw file useable in Swish ONLY. It has
nothing to do with what shows up on the internet.
Likewise, with Flash files, there is a raw .fla file
that is useable in Flash only, and IT has nothing to
do with what shows up on the internet. The format
of the movie that appears online is .swf. In order
to make your Swish file show up in the template and
online, after saving the .swi, select File, Export
SWF - then export the file with the same name as the
.swi to the root directory of your web, overwriting
ours. That's all there is to it!
Yes. If you have used our templates in the past,
and upgrade to FP 2003, everything works as it
always did in prior versions, except, of course,
there are new features in FP 2003 not incorporated
into the template. You may need to move your prior
template and/or themes files, as
explained here.
