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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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:
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| 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:
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.