Modify a frames page template

Microsoft FrontPage includes a variety of frames page templates you can modify to create your own custom  templates.

1. On the File menu, point to New, click Page, and then click the Frames Pages tab.
2. Click the frames page template that you want to modify, and then click OK.

   Tip   When you click a template, FrontPage displays a thumbnail showing that template's frames layout in the Preview area. It also displays a summary and suggested use of the template in the Description area.

3. In Page view, modify the frames page to create a custom template.

   Note   If you set an initial page in any frame, that page will be the default initial page for the frame in every page you create based on the template.

4. On the File menu, click Save As.
5. In the Save as type box, click FrontPage Template (*.tem).
6. In the File box, type the file name for your custom template, and then click Save.
7. In the Save As Template dialog box, in the Title box, type a friendly title for the template. This is the title displayed in the list of templates on the Frames Pages tab of the New dialog box.
8. In the Description box, type text describing what the template does. This text is displayed in the Description area of the Frames Pages tab.

Tips

• To replace or overwrite an existing custom template, click Browse, and then in the Templates box, select the template you want to replace.
• To add a template to the current web to make it available to other authors working on the same web, select the Save template in current web check box. FrontPage creates a Sharedtemplates folder in the current web and adds the new template to it.

Modify a frames page "no frames" message

Some older browsers can't display frames pages. Instead, they display a "no frames" message when a site visitor opens a frames page in your web. You can customize this "no frames" message. 

1. In Page view, open the frames page you want to modify, and then click the No Frames tab.
2. Modify the message as you want. You can also include pictures, tables, or anything else in the message that you can put on a page.

Tip   To directly edit HTML of the "no frames" message, click the Frames Page HTML tab.

Modify target frames on a frames page

When you click a hyperlink on a page that's displayed in one frame of a frames page, the page pointed to by that hyperlink usually opens in another frame (called the target frame) on that same frames page.

On frames pages that you create using frames page templates in FrontPage, the target frames are already set up for you. In the Contents template, for example, any hyperlinks you create on the page in the Contents frame automatically display a page in the Main frame. You can override the target frame for a single hyperlink, or change the default target frame for all hyperlinks on a page.

1. In Page view, open the frames page you want to modify, and then click the Normal tab.
2. Right-click the hyperlink you want to modify, and then click Hyperlink Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. Click Change Target Frame .
4. In the Target Frame dialog box, the Current frames page area displays a "map" of the frames page. Click the frame in which you want to display the page pointed to by hyperlink you selected in step 2.
5. To designate the target frame you selected as the default target frame for all the hyperlinks on the page, select the Set as page default check box. Any pages pointed to by hyperlinks on the current page will automatically open in the specified target frame.

   Note   The default target frame you designate here applies to any subsequent pages you open or new pages you create in the current frame.