Lesson 1: Building a New Website

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Applying a FrontPage Theme

With Microsoft FrontPage, you can easily create dynamic and visually consistent Web sites by applying one of several pre-designed themes.

Before applying a theme, you can preview its appearance in the FrontPage Explorer's Themes view. In the steps below, you will add the "Global Marketing" theme to the Personal Web.

To Apply a FrontPage Theme to the Personal Web

Figure 1. The Themes button

1. On the FrontPage Explorer's Views bar, click the Themes button.
   
   
2. Click on different themes in the scrolling list box.

   The Theme Preview pane lets you preview the graphical elements as they will appear on your Web pages. You can preview a theme before applying it by selecting it from the list of themes.

   Before applying a theme, you can select theme options that affect the appearance of the theme's components. Selecting Vivid Colors will apply brighter colors to text and graphics, selecting Active Graphics will animate certain theme components, and selecting Background Image will apply a background image to the pages in your current FrontPage-based Web site.

3. For this lesson, select Vivid Colors and Background Image.
   
   
4. From the list of themes, select Global Marketing, then click the Apply button.

   The selected theme is applied to the pages in your current FrontPage-based Web site. In the next section of this lesson, you will see how the selected theme gives your pages a consistent and attractive appearance.