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Frontpage: Lesson 2 - Creating Frames

To add frames to our site, go to File, New, Page and select the Frames Page tab. This displays a number of frame templates: select Header. Ctrl-click to select each frame and then right-click to bring up the Frame Properties dialog box: set the appropriate details, such as frame size (80 pixels) for the header, scrolling (no), border width (0) and border frame (no); name the top and bottom frames head and body respectively.

FrontPage makes it easy to link files to your frame: once these have been set up, you can either link the frames to existing files or create new pages. To link, click on the button that says Set Initial Page, or, as in this case, click New Page to begin editing in situ. The page view now has an extra couple of tabs - Frames Page HTML, which allows you to edit the code for your frames directly, as well as NoFrames, the elements of the page that will be displayed if the browser cannot view frames.

For the head frame, right-click to bring up the Frame Properties box and type in the name head, with body for the body frame. Finally, save the frameset by going to File, Save: give the frameset file the name default.html in the root folder and when FrontPage prompts you name the other two files as header.html and home.htm.

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