Lesson 1: Building a New Web Site

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Navigation and Themes Views

The Navigation view is the most useful view for constructing a new Web site, because it provides a useful outline of your site structure and it can automatically create navigation bars on all pages in your FrontPage-based Web site. A navigation bar is a page region that provides access to other pages in your FrontPage-based Web site, using textual or graphical hyperlinks. In larger Web sites, linking all of the pages together in a consistent and accurate manner could take hours of work. If you create your site structure in the Navigation view, FrontPage can do this work for you.

You will use the Themes view to apply a set of professionally designed graphics to your FrontPage-based Web site. A theme consists of design elements for bullets, fonts, images, navigation bars, and other page elements. When applied, a theme gives the pages and navigation bars in a FrontPage-based Web site an attractive and consistent appearance.

Later, in Lesson 3 of the FrontPage tutorial, you will learn about some of the other FrontPage Explorer views that help you organize files and folders, check and repair the hyperlinks on your pages, and remind you of tasks that must be completed before you publish your site on the World Wide Web.

For a complete discussion of all FrontPage Explorer views, see "FrontPage Webs and the Microsoft FrontPage Explorer".