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Adding Navigation to Your Windows SharePoint Services-based
Web Site
Web sites created with Windows SharePoint Services
already contain Web pages and navigation. For example, the SharePoint team Web site Quick
Launch bar in every SharePoint team Web site is driven by a link bar. You can create your own
link bars as well, either based on overall site navigation or based on your own
collection of links.
To insert a link bar in your Windows SharePoint
Services-based Web site, open the site with
FrontPage 2003 and do the following:
- Open a Web page in FrontPage 2003 and click where you want the insertion point to
be in the page.
- Select Web Components from the Insert menu, which brings
up the Insert Web Component dialog box.
- Select Link Bars under Component type:, then select 1 of 3
choices under Choose a bar type:, and modify the Link Bar properties
accordingly.
Note: There are 3 types of link bars you can insert into your
Web site based on Windows SharePoint Services using FrontPage 2003. Each type of
link bar can use buttons from any of the Themes that are installed on your
computer, or they can use a variety of text styles. They can be
horizontally positioned or vertically positioned, and once a link bar is set up
it can be reused on any page in the site or in a Dynamic Web Template (DWT), a
new feature of FrontPage 2003.
- Bar with custom links. Custom link bars allow you to quickly
and easily create buttons that link to Web pages, files or folders without
having to use a graphics editing tool. The example below is an actual
link bar that contains links to pages on and off this Web site. The
great part about link bars is that you can use any button from any of the
Themes that are installed on your system.
- Bar with back and next links. Bars with back and next links
allow you to chain together pages that you want visitors to read in a certain order.
Because link bars are reusable across the Web site, you
can copy and paste them into each page (no need to
recreate a particular
link bar each time you want to use it). Another time-saving feature of
link bars is that if you change a link bar link or link label, all other
instances of that link bar across
the site are automatically updated.
- Bar based on navigation structure. Long-time FrontPage users
will recognize bars based on navigation structure as the traditional
navigation bars used in FrontPage. The Navigation View in FrontPage
allows you to set up how your pages link to one another, and what page banner
and button labels represent each page. Inserting a link bar based on
navigation structure brings up a special Link Bar
Properties dialog where you can determine how your
link bar will behave.
More information
For more information about link bars, see Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Help.
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