Hands On Practice - Themes

You can change the look quickly and easily on all pages in your Web site or just one page in your site using Themes in Microsoft FrontPage® 2003. Themes apply consistent fonts and other formatting across a single page or all pages in your site. Each has its own look and feel, including coordinated bullets, buttons, background, page banner, horizontal line, and font styles.

Selecting and Applying a Theme

• Go to Format, Theme.

• The Theme Task Pane will open on the right side of your application window. (see example to the right)

• Scroll through the available options to find one you like.

• When you hover your cursor over your selection, a selector appears on the right side. 

• Clicking on this selector will display several options.  You will want to pick Apply as default theme.

Once you have your theme formatted, your one page web site should look something like the picture below.

Changing Your Theme

Don't like the theme you picked first?  You may change your theme at any time in the development process.  Simply repeat the process above, and select a different theme.

Modifying or Customizing a Theme

In addition, you can apply a virtually limitless variety of formatting options to these 67 themes because they are all customizable.  To customize a Theme, open a new or existing web in FrontPage 2003, and do the following:

• On the Format menu, select Themes.

• In the list box on the left, select a Theme.

• Click on the selector bar, and select the Customize option.

• The Customize Theme dialog box opens. (see below)

• The Colors button to change the color scheme of a theme

• The Graphics button to change the graphics used in a theme

• The Text button to change the text styles used in a theme

• Click Save As, enter a new name for your modified Theme and click OK. 

• Find the new them in the list, and apply it to all pages in your web site.