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LAST UPDATED: 08 November 2007 18:22:42 -0600

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ALTERNATE VIEWS CREATE A NEW PAGE CHECK LINKS

WHERE NAVIGATION BORDERS WHY NAVIGATION BARS

DO-IT-YOURSELF NAVIGATION BAR NAVIGATION BARS ARE HARD TO GIVE UP

ALTERNATE VIEWS

You can perform all sorts of tasks quickly by using the right-mouse button. From Navigation view, right-click anywhere in the page to see alternate view options. From the pop-up menu that appears, you can do the following:

* Choose Rotate to switch the view from horizontal to vertical.
* Choose Size to Fit to make all the pages in your web zoom out so that you can see each page in the view without scrolling.

CREATE A NEW PAGE

In the last few tips, we told you about the right-click menus available in FrontPage. You can also save yourself time by right-clicking certain FrontPage elements instead of rooting through menus to find a command. Here's how to use the right-click menu to add a new page to your web in Navigation view:

1. First open Navigation view (in FrontPage Explorer, select the Navigation icon in the Views bar).
2. Right-click anywhere in the Navigation pane and choose New Top Page.

You can later associate the page by dragging it below or to the same level as other pages in the Navigation view (until you see a visible line connecting the pages). Doing so helps give your site structure and is necessary when creating a navigation bar on a page (choose Insert + Navigation Bar).

CHECK LINKS

Need to check your hyperlinks? One option is to click the Preview tab in FrontPage Editor and click each link. An even better option is to use the Verify Hyperlinks tool.

>From FrontPage Explorer, select Tools + Verify Hyperlinks. A list of your links and their condition appears in the Hyperlink Status view. (Remember: Connect to the Internet first if you have external links to other Web sites.)

WHERE NAVIGATION BORDERS

The easiest way to put Navigation Borders into your pages is to create the pages one-by-one in the Navigation View of the FrontPage Explorer. This sets up Shared Borders automatically. And FrontPage puts in Navigation Bars for each page based on the organization from the Nav View. They land, naturally, in the Shared Borders.

1. Enter the FrontPage Explorer.
2. Open View + Navigation.
3. Create your pages within this view.

WHY NAVIGATION BARS

Want your web site visitors to easily get from one page to another?

That is, one page within your site to another page within your site? (Most web makers want visitors to stay a while, after all.)

This "get from page to page" stuff is so important it has its own fancy word: navigation. And FrontPage has a built-in ability to add a Navigation Bar to your pages.

By planting this Navigation Bar within a Shared Border, it can automatically show up on all of your web site's pages.

DO-IT-YOURSELF NAVIGATION BAR

To add a Navigation Bar that will help people jump from this page to any other page:

1. Open the page in the FrontPage Editor.
2. Click where you want the Navigation Bar.
3. Open Insert + Navigation Bar.
4. In the Navigation Bar Properties dialog box, choose which links you want in the bar--by clicking in the radio buttons for those pages.
5. Still in that dialog box, click on the Orientation and Appearance buttons, to make the bar either buttons or text, and either Horizontal or Vertical.
6. Click on OK.

Now switch to the Preview mode--click on that button at the bottom of the screen--to see and try your new bar.

NAVIGATION BARS ARE HARD TO GIVE UP

You can't simply delete a FrontPage Navigation Bar in a Shared Border. Try it and you'll probably find some elements left behind.

Here's a way that will work more completely:

1. Right-click on the bar.
2. From the pop-up menu, choose Page Properties.
3. In the Page Properties dialog box, click on the Custom tab.
4. In the User Variables list, click on the variable called Microsoft Border.
5. Click on Remove.

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