Chapter 20: Customizing and Maintaining FrontPage 2003

Overview

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• Change the features FrontPage presents at startup, so that you can get to work more efficiently .

• Customize colors, typefaces , and other characteristics of FrontPage s built-in themes.

• Add and remove toolbar buttons to save screen space, and give you the tools you need the most.

• Configure editing programs that launch automatically when you want to edit specified file types.

• Use the Detect and Repair utility to fix common problems you may encounter while running FrontPage.

FrontPage 2003 is all about giving Webmasters like you the tools that match the way you want to work. The View menu gives you more than half a dozen different ways to view your FrontPage-based Web. The Folder List gives you a hierarchical, Windows Explorer-like guide to your site s contents. If you want a more visual layout, you can switch to Navigation view. You can use Design view, if you aren t comfortable with viewing the source HTML, or XML, for a page. On the other hand, if you like to be in control, and understand everything that s going on behind the scenes, you can work in Code view.

But even FrontPage s standard selection of panes, views, toolbars, and menus might not be perfect for your needs. Once you get comfortable with this complex and powerful Web site creation tool, you can assume a higher level of control and customize the program s interface. FrontPage gives users the flexibility to edit and arrange toolbars , menu options, and other parts of its look and feel.

By changing FrontPage s arrangement of tools and options, you can work more quickly and efficiently. You can quickly access those aspects of the program you use most often. In this chapter, you ll discover how to customize the FrontPage window, rearrange ”or even create your own ”toolbars, and alter the colors or other design aspects of themes. You also examine how to repair FrontPage, if you encounter problems with the software.