FP2000 How to Alter the Theme Used by Web Templates

ID: Q206011

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SUMMARY

This article describes how you can change the theme applied to your new FrontPage Webs.


MORE INFORMATION

WARNING: If you delete or alter built-in Web templates, you may need to reinstall FrontPage to restore the templates.

To change the theme that will be applied to a new FrontPage web, you must edit the Web template INF file. The INF file contains information about the Web, including the default theme that will be applied to the Web.

Each Web template is located in its own subfolder. By default the folder is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs\ folder. For example, the Personal Web template has a corresponding Personal.inf file. This file is stored in the following hard disk location: 


C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs\Personal.tem
The following table lists the Web templates that ship with FrontPage and the folders and file names of the INF files:

Web Template Name Folder Inf File
One Page Web Normal.tem Normal.inf
Customer Support Web Custsupp.tem Custsupp.inf
Empty Web Empty.tem Empty.inf
Personal Web Personal.tem Personal.inf
Project Web Project.tem Project.inf


Each theme has a theme definition. For example, the theme definition for the Expedition theme is Expedition. The theme definition is defined in the theme's INF file. By default, the INF file is located in the following hard disk location:


C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\css\<Theme Name>
where <Theme Name> corresponds to the theme definition. The following table lists the themes and theme definitions:

Theme Name Theme Definition
Arcs arcs
Artsy artsy
Automotive auto
Balance balance
Barcode barcode
Bars bars
Blank blank
Blends blends
Blocks blocks
Blueprint blueprnt
Bold Stripes boldstri
Bubbles bubbles
Cactus cactus
Canvas canvas
Capsules capsules
Chalkboard chlkbord
Checkers checkers
Citrus Punch citrus
Classic classic
Clear Day clearday
Construction Zone construc
Corporate corporat
Cypress cypress
Downtown downtown
Expedition expeditn
Fiesta fiesta
Folio folio
Geared Up Factory factory
Glacier glacier
Global Marketing global
Highway hiway
In Motion inmotion
Industrial indust
Kids kids
LaVerne lavern
Leaves leaves
Loose Gesture loosegst
Maize maize
Modern Shapes mdnshape
Modular modular
Nature nature
Neon neon
Network Blitz blitz
Passport passport
Pie Charts piechart
Poetic poetic
PostModern pstmdrn
Radius radius
Rice Paper ricepapr
Romanesque rmnsque
Safari safari
Saturday TV Toons tvtoons
Spiral spiral
Straight Edge stredge
Sumi Painting sumipntg
Sunflower sunflowr
Sweets sweets
Tabs and Folders tabs
Technology technolo
Tidepool tidepool
Tilt tilt
Topo topo
Travel travel
Waves waves
Willow willow
Zero zero


Each INF file contains an entry similar to the following: 

theme=global 101
where global is the theme definition and the number that follows identifies which options are used by the theme. Each digit in the number identifies one of or more of the following three options:

100 Vivid Colors. Use this option to apply brighter colors to text and graphics.
010 Active Graphics. Use this option to animate theme components.
001 Background Image. Use this option to apply a textured background.


You can combine these options. For example, if you want to include all three options (vivid colors, active graphics, and background image), you would specify a number of 111. If you want your theme to contain vivid colors and active graphics, you would specify a number of 110.

Also, you can automatically have the theme applied using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). To do this, add an additional 1 to the beginning of the number. For example, if you wanted to apply Active Graphics to the ChalkBoard Theme, you would normally type 010 as the number. However, if you wanted to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you would type 1010 as the number.

If you do not want to apply a theme, you can set the value to none, such as the following example: 

theme=none
After you make your changes to the INF file, save the file. The next time you create a new FrontPage Web, the theme you specified will be applied to your Web.

NOTE: You cannot apply a default theme to the Import Web Wizard. In contrast, other Web wizards allow you to select a theme after you start the wizard.


REFERENCES

For more information about themes, click Microsoft FrontPage Help on the Help menu, type "Themes, overview" in the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

Additional query words: themes 


Keywords          : kbdta fpedit fpactive fptheme fpext 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 7, 1999