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SUMMARYThis article describes how to design your own themes and how to modify and customize the appearance and properties of the professionally designed themes that ship with Microsoft FrontPage 98. MORE INFORMATIONInstalling Theme DesignerTo install Theme Designer, quit all programs and then do the following:
Starting Theme DesignerAfter the Setup program has completed, start FrontPage Explorer and start Theme Designer by clicking Show Theme Designer on the Tools menu.Theme Verification AssistantWhen you install Theme Designer, another utility called Theme Verification Assistant, is also installed. To run this program, open Windows Explorer and double-click the Thmveras.exe file in the \Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\Bin folder. You can use this program to verify that the custom themes you created meet the basic requirements to work well with FrontPage. Because it analyzes one or more theme folders and creates a report that can be saved or printed, it is very useful if you create your themes without using Theme Designer.Design Elements in Theme DesignerTheme view in FrontPage Explorer only shows partial theme elements. Theme Designer, on the other hand, shows you all of the design elements of a theme, including the following:
Design Elements in FrontPage 98 ThemesFrontPage 98 themes define elements and settings for the following categories:
Selecting a Font for Your ThemeUnlike a word processor, you cannot specify fonts in point sizes in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The Web browser that is used to view the page, not the author of the page, controls this. There are only seven settings available. The following table lists the seven settings and their respective values.
When you select a font for a theme, you should select a universal font--one
that is likely to be installed on the computer from which your page will be
viewed. Selecting a font that is not likely to be installed on the browsing
computer will be a poor choice. To specify one or more alternative fonts,
separate each font with a comma, like this:
In this example, Verdana is the primary font used by the theme. If Verdana is not installed on the
browsing computer, Arial will be used. Because Verdana and Arial are both Windows-based fonts, you
can specify a third font, such as Helvetica. Helvetica is available on Macintosh computers.
The following fonts ship with FrontPage. You should select one of these fonts when you design your theme.
Choosing Colors for Your ThemeAll colors that you want to use for your theme should be in the 216 color safe palette for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Web browsers. These colors result from all RGB (Red/Green/Blue) combinations of 0, 51, 102, 153, 204, and 255.Saving a New or Modified ThemeWhen you have finished creating a new theme or editing an existing one, click Save As on the File menu to save the theme as a new theme, or click Save to overwrite the original theme with your changes. Note that you cannot overwrite the original FrontPage 98 themes that are shipped on the FrontPage 98 compact disc. These themes are read-only.Additional query words: 98 Themes Designer
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