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Applying a Theme to a Site Created with Windows
SharePoint Services
Themes are a powerful feature in Microsoft Office FrontPage
2003. Themes are professional coordinated collections of design elements like
buttons, hover buttons, bullets, backgrounds, horizontal rules, page banners,
and font and formatting choices. FrontPage 2003 includes many ready-made Themes
that can be applied to Web sites created in FrontPage, Web sites created with
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, and even documents created with Microsoft
Word.
Themes are a powerful feature in Microsoft FrontPage and Web
sites based on SharePoint Team Services. Themes are professional coordinated
collections of design elements like buttons, hover buttons, bullets,
backgrounds, horizontal rules, page banners, and font and formatting choices.
FrontPage 2002 includes more than 65 pre-built Themes that can be applied to Web
sites based on SharePoint Team Services, FrontPage-created sites, and even
documents created with Microsoft Word. Additionally, you can take any Theme and
customize the elements to give you exactly the look you want. This article
discusses how to apply a Theme to a Web site based on SharePoint Team
Services.
You can either change Themes on sites created with Windows SharePoint
Services with your browser through the Windows SharePoint Services user
interface, or you can change them using FrontPage 2003. This article outlines
the steps for both methods. Note that to apply
custom Themes, you must use FrontPage 2003.
Changing Themes on a site created with Windows SharePoint Services is simple.
- Browse to the home page of your Web site.
- Click the Site Settings link at the top of the home page.
- Click Apply theme to site in the Customization section of
the Site Settings page.
- Click the name of the Theme you want to preview.
- Click Apply. The new Theme is applied:
Changing Themes through FrontPage 2003 is easy, and offers you more choices
than applying a new Theme from a browser. Here is how to apply a new Theme
to a site created with Windows SharePoint Services using FrontPage 2003.
- Open the Web site based on Windows SharePoint Services
in FrontPage 2003 (select Open Site from the File menu,
then type in the URL for your site; you will need to be able to
supply the user name and password for the site).
- Select Theme from the Format menu. The Themes task
pane lists all of the Themes that are available and offers a preview
of each.
- Select the Theme you want to apply by clicking
on its name in the Themes list. In the example used in this
article, the Spring Theme was used.
- You can choose from the three options at the bottom
of the Themes task pane:
Vivid colors - To use a bright color set, select the Vivid
colors check box. To use the normal color set, clear this check box.
This check box is not set by default.
Active graphics - To use a more elaborate and lively set of
banners, buttons, bullets, and other graphical elements, the Active
Graphics check box is selected by default; to use the normal graphic
set, clear the check box. Most Themes include hover buttons; if you
plan to use them, make sure that this item is checked.
Background picture - The Background picture check box is
selected by default. If you don't want to use it for your Theme, clear
the check box.
Tip: The Create new theme... link allows you to
customize the Theme. See the article entitled
Customizing Themes for Windows SharePoint
Services for more information.
- You can choose to Apply as default theme or Apply to selected page(s). When
you select Apply as default theme, new pages that are created
automatically use this theme. After you make your selection, the new
theme is applied to the page or site.
Tip: It may take a few seconds before the changes are
reflected, but behind the scenes a lot is happening. Buttons,
bullets, backgrounds, fonts, formatting, and more are being changed
throughout the page or the site.
The site look and formatting is now greatly changed in
just a few clicks:
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Default Site Created with Windows SharePoint
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Default Site Created with Windows SharePoint
Services with Spring Theme Applied |
The
finance,
human resources, and
sales & marketing sample sites were created with
custom Themes. The rules for fonts, backgrounds,
buttons, and other elements are specified in the custom
Themes.
Here are links to other articles regarding Themes:
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