HOW TO: Create Custom Web Templates in FrontPage 2000

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.

Locate Template or Wizard List

To locate the Template Or Wizard list:

1. Click onFile menu.
2. Point to New.
3. Click New FrontPage Web.

The Template or Wizard List will appear so you can choose which one you want to use.

Create a Web Template

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.

Note: When you open the New FrontPage Web dialog box, your custom template will be listed in the Template Or Wizard list as Custom Web Template. When you select your custom template, the "My first Custom Web Template" will appear in the Description box. When you click OK, the \_private and \images folders will be created in the new Web.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194153.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 171569.