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I'm a Dreamweaver user myself, but how about these ways? - First, Front Page does allow you to make themes. Can you just make one an apply it to a group of pages (like I said, I don't know how that works)
- Second, can you just do a find and replace over several documents? That works in Dreamweaver pretty well.
- Third, if there is no easy way, just do it by hand, unless you have 100 pages to do. If that is the case, just to a find and replace.
- Fourth, use CSS like the person said above. CSS is very simple to use! Here is snipit of code that you can apply to your pages:
Code: BODY {background-color: #FFFFFF}
Save that into a file called whateveryouwant.css.
Then, to link that, place this within the header of your page:
Code: <LINK href="whateveryouwant.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Now, whenever you change the background color in the CSS file, it'll automatically change it in all of the pages. Also, be aware that if the page is in a different directory than the CSS file, you need to make sure that the link href is pointed correctly to the CSS file. I'm sure you already know that, but I've seen it many times where someone put a page in a different directory and did not update the CSS location. If those don't work, do a very simple search for CSS and background colors on Google, AV, Yahoo, etc. |
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I'm running 2002 and if you open Page Properties > Background, there is an option at the bottom of the window stating 'Get background information from another page'. Check the box, click browse and select your index file.
If this isn't an option in 2003, the following appears to be the html that is making it happen (substitute your index file name for index.html) if you'd like to paste into your code view after (</head>) and give it a try.
<body stylesrc="index.html">
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So if i copy this part of the code in, will it function in the right way where it takes the index pages' background? Quote:
Save that into a file called whateveryouwant.css.
Then, to link that, place this within the header of your page:
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<LINK href="whateveryouwant.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Now, whenever you change the background color in the CSS file, it'll automatically change it in all of the pages. Also, be aware that if the page is in a different directory than the CSS file, you need to make sure that the link href is pointed correctly to the CSS file. I'm sure you already know that, but I've seen it many times where someone put a page in a different directory and did not update the CSS location. If those don't work, do a very simple search for CSS and background colors on Google, AV, Yahoo, etc. | In this situation im begining to believe a CSS file is just like the index page, and your using this code to take the background from either files. I havnt even created a CSS file yet anyway. Hope all this editing hasnt confused people, as its easier to say things than say them right. |
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Bump. Ill need more detailed instructions here.
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Use an external CSS file, specifing the "body" background and then linking to it on each page. If you want to change the background, just change the CSS.
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So if i copy this part of the code in, will it function in the right way where it takes the index pages' background? Quote:
Save that into a file called whateveryouwant.css.
Then, to link that, place this within the header of your page:
Code:
<LINK href="whateveryouwant.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Now, whenever you change the background color in the CSS file, it'll automatically change it in all of the pages. Also, be aware that if the page is in a different directory than the CSS file, you need to make sure that the link href is pointed correctly to the CSS file. I'm sure you already know that, but I've seen it many times where someone put a page in a different directory and did not update the CSS location. If those don't work, do a very simple search for CSS and background colors on Google, AV, Yahoo, etc. | In this situation im begining to believe a CSS file is just like the index page, and your using this code to take the background from either files. I havnt even created a CSS file yet anyway. Hope all this editing hasnt confused people, as its easier to say things than say them right. |
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Wait i just put myself in a loop. So far i could only manage to figure out that it will take an image from image type files (bmp.jpg....). I may as well also note that this isnt just an image, its a simple colour. Want to avoid all the fuss and just get me to copy and paste that part of the code for that colour?
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Quote: | Originally Posted by Jay_JWLH Not the best type of answer i would like right now, seeing as i like to keep it all working in design view. You may want to tell me more about this (how to create it). Still, other answers will still be appreciated. | You can still use design view with CSS. I'm on a different computer at the moment that doesn't have FrontPage on it, but from my memory, this is roughly how you do it: - Create a new CSS file within the directory (might be possible with "New page from template").
- Open the CSS file in FrontPage (double-click).
- A floating toolbar should pop up. Click on "Style..."
- There you will see a list of HTML tags. Click on the body one.
- There should be like some "Format..." button or dropdown box. I think choose the border option.
- Then there should be a background tab or something like that.
- Choose the background color.
- Then, go back to your page and go to something like this: Format > Style...
- There should be some dialog box to link to the CSS file. Do that with every page.
- Change the CSS body element and watch every page change.
I'll get back to my PC with FrontPage on Wednesday... |
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Wait i just put myself in a loop. So far i could only manage to figure out that it will take an image from image type files (bmp.jpg....). I may as well also note that this isnt just an image, its a simple colour. Want to avoid all the fuss and just get me to copy and paste that part of the code for that colour?
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Not the best type of answer i would like right now, seeing as i like to keep it all working in design view. You may want to tell me more about this (how to create it). Still, other answers will still be appreciated.
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