About page templates
A page template is a pre-designed page that can contain page settings, formatting, and page elements. Microsoft FrontPage provides several default page templates, or you can create your own, so that you can create pages for your Web site quickly and consistently. Templates are very useful in a multiple-author environment because they help authors create pages the same way. For example, if all your pages always have a company logo and description at the top of the page, you can create a template with those elements. You could then use your template when you create a new page, and the logo and description will automatically display on the page.
When you create a page template, a copy of the template is stored on the hard drive of every Web site author who opens that Web site.
If you work in a multiple authoring environment, you can create your own custom templates and share them with other authors working on the same Web site. Anyone who opens the Web site can then create new pages based on your shared templates, which are listed along with the default templates. For example, you might want all of the pages in a Web site to link to a specific cascading style sheet. You could create a template containing a link to the style sheet, and then share that template with anyone working on the Web site. Instead of adding style sheet links manually to new pages, you can create new pages that already contain the links just by using the shared template.