FP2000: How to Create Custom Web Templates

• Microsoft FrontPage 2000

SUMMARY

This article describes how to create a Web template from any Web and make it available in the Template Or Wizard list in the New FrontPage Web dialog box. (To locate the Template Or Wizard list, point to New on the File menu, and then click New FrontPage Web.)

MORE INFORMATION

To create a Web template, follow these steps:

1. Start FrontPage.



2. Open or create the Web that you want to use for the Web template.
   
   NOTE: The web must be a disk-based web. To quickly tell if the web is server based or disk based, in the title bar of FrontPage, you will see the words Microsoft FrontPage followed by a location. If the location begins with "http://" then the web is server based. If the location begins with a disk location, such as "C:\" then the web is disk based.



3. Close FrontPage.



4. Start Windows Explorer, and select the disk-based Web you created.



5. On the Edit menu, click Copy.



6. Open the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs\ folder. This folder contains several folders with the .tem and .wiz extensions.



7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.



8. Open the new folder. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Text Document. Name the new document, <template>.inf, where <template> is the name of the folder you created in step 7.



9. Use a text editor, such as Notepad to open the <template>.inf file, and type the following information:

   
   [info]
   title=Custom Web Template
   description=My first Custom Web Template 




10. Save and close the file.

Additional query words: Web template tmp 2000RTMPublic

Keywords          : fpexp 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999