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Websites 101

Applying Shared Borders

Now that we've applied a consistent "look" across all your pages, let's add some navigation menus so that your visitor can browse from page to page. The easiest and quickest way to do this in FrontPage is by applying a shared border.

1. Close all your pages. From the Format menu on the standard toolbar, select Shared Borders... to bring up the Shared Borders window.
    
   
    
2. If it's not already selected, select All pages under Apply to and check the boxes for Top and Include navigation buttons. Leave all other boxes unchecked.
    
3. FrontPage will warn you that your actions will overwrite certain border content, but since we haven't added anything to the borders, go ahead and click Yes.
    
   
    
4. FrontPage will then take a few moments to apply your shared border to all your pages.
    
5. Now open your Home Page (index.htm). Note how a banner heading has been added. However, in place of navigation buttons, you see a comment [Edit the properties for this Navigation Bar to display hyperlinks here]. Double-click on this comment to open the Navigation Bar Properties window. 
    
   
    
6. Under Hyperlinks to add to page, select Child pages under Home and check both Home page and Parent page boxes. Under Orientation and appearance, select Horizontal and Buttons. Click on OK.
    
7. FrontPage adds the navigation buttons. Open other pages in your web. As you'll see, the buttons have been added on those pages, as well.
    
8. Let's have the banner heading on our Home Page read "Welcome!" rather than simply "Home Page". Double-click on the banner to bring up the Page Banner Properties window.
    
   
    
9. Change the Page banner text to read "Welcome!" and click OK.
    
10. Note that FrontPage has changed your banner's text accordingly.

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