Use themes to get ready-to-use designs, complete with all the essential elements you need. Themes can be added to individual pages or to all pages within a site.
Use shared borders to define common areas that pages within the site share, and then add the common elements to these shared border areas.
Use link bars to add textual or graphical menus that link to pages in the site, or to pages in other sites.
Use page banners to add a banner that specifies the title or purpose of the page. Banners can be text-only, or they can be text on a graphical backdrop.
When you use themes, shared borders, link bars, and page banners, you are using a FrontPage component that requires you to publish the page to a Web server that supports the FrontPage Server Extensions.
You can easily customize themes, shared borders, link bars and page banners to suit your needs, and when you no longer want to use them, these features can be removed.