Chapter 5: Enhancing Design with Themes

Overview

10-Second Summary

• Use and customize themes to suit your needs.

• Use shared borders, link bars and page banners.

• Remove themes from pages and Web sites when no longer desired.

Now that you know the basics of crafting pages, you re ready to polish the page design. One way to do this is to add items such as:

• Themes that customize the way graphics and text elements are used on pages.

• Shared borders that add common headers and footers to pages in a site.

• Link bars that make it easy to navigate the pages of your sites.

• Page banners that add introductory graphics or text to pages.

Not only can these features turn ordinary sites into extraordinary sites, they also can save you time and effort. By the time you finish this chapter, you ll have a polished site with professional-quality design and graphics. Along the way, you ll also learn how to customize themes; use shared borders; add page banners or link bars to pages; and remove these features if they are no longer needed.