A page or web or frameset template directory must be called *.tem, such as sample.tem. In order to be recognized by FrontPage, this directory must be placed in either the FrontPage webs or pages or frames directory, depending on what kind of content it holds. These are directly underneath the FrontPage root directory, which can be discovered from the frontpg.ini file located in the user’s Windows directory:
[FrontPage 3.0]
FrontPageRoot=C:\Microsoft FrontPage