About themes

You can choose the colors that are used in a theme. You can choose a color from one of the FrontPage color palettes, or you can define your own custom colors.

You can also change colors in an existing theme. For example, in the Artsy theme, active hyperlinks are green — you could change them to red. You can also change the colors of other page and text elements, such as body and heading text, banner text, link bar labels, table borders, and the background. In addition, each theme has two color sets — normal and vivid. You can specify the colors to use for both sets.

You can choose graphics to use when you create a new theme. For example, you could use a picture you created as the background for your new theme.

You can also change graphical elements in existing themes, such as the page banner, bullets, and navigation buttons. In addition, you can specify the font to use for graphical elements that are displayed with text.

Each theme has two sets of graphics — normal and active. You can specify the graphics to use for either set. The active graphic set uses animated page elements, such as Interactive Buttons instead of plain buttons on link bars.

Note  Active graphics are not available for some theme items.

In FrontPage, all font styles are applied using cascading style sheets (CSS). You can choose font styles for a new theme that you create, or customize styles in existing themes. For example, in the Capsules theme, you could change the font for the body and heading styles from Arial to Times New Roman. To change the font displayed on a graphical element (for example, the font used on page banners), you must change the graphic.

A page that has a theme applied to it can be saved as a template. Any pages created by using the template will either use the Web site's default theme or a specific theme, depending on how the theme was applied to the original page. For example, you create a template from a page that has a theme applied to it, then you create pages in a Web site whose default theme is Artsy. If the page template used the Web site default theme, new pages will use the Artsy theme. If the page template used a specific theme, new pages will use that theme.