About Themes

A theme is a unified set of design elements and color schemes that you apply to pages to give them a consistent and attractive appearance. Using a theme is a quick and easy way to add interest to pages and give them a professional look.

A theme affects all aspects of the appearance of a page:

• Colors   Uses a color scheme to set the color of body text, headings, hyperlinks, page banner text, link bar labels, table borders, and the page background. You can use a normal or vivid color set.
• Graphics   Uses graphics for several page elements, such as the background picture, the page banner, bullets, navigation buttons, and horizontal lines. You can use the normal or active graphic set. The active graphic set uses animated page elements, such as hover buttons instead of plain buttons on navigation bars.
• Styles   Uses its own styles (fonts) for the body text and headings.

Themes let you manage the appearance of one or more pages in one place. When you choose one theme as the default for your Web site, the theme applies to all existing pages and to new pages. You can change the default theme or remove it, and the change applies to the entire site automatically. You also can choose to apply themes to individual pages.

FrontPage Themes

Microsoft FrontPage includes many preset themes that you can use right away — you can use them as they are, or you can modify them. Certain features in FrontPage are only available when you use a theme. For example, page banners and link bar buttons are displayed as graphics when you apply a theme, but as text when you do not apply a theme.

You can change and customize themes. For example you can change the background picture or heading font for a theme. By customizing a preset theme, you are really creating a theme — you can use your own graphics, color sets, and styles.