How to Create a Navigation-Based Link Bar in FrontPage

Every website should have a navigation structure that makes it easy for users to find their way around a website. Microsoft FrontPage has a feature that automatically allows you to create links for each page of your website, basing the links on how you have already set up your site. Follow the steps below to add navigation to your website in the form of a FrontPage link bar.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Microsoft FrontPage 2003

1. Start Microsoft FrontPage and open an existing website that you have created in FrontPage. Click somewhere in the FrontPage document space to put the cursor where you would like the navigation link bar to appear once it is created.
2. Choose the "Insert" menu and click on "Navigation" to open the "Insert Web Component" dialog box.
3. Select "Bar Based on Navigation Structure" from the "Choose a Bar Type" section of the "Insert Web Component" dialog box.
4. Use your mouse to click the "Next" button on the "Insert Web Component" dialog box to move on to the next screen.
5. Scroll down and click to choose a bar style from the "Choose a Bar Style" section of the "Insert Web Component" dialog box, and press the "Next" button once you have chosen one.
6. Choose to have the links appear horizontally or vertically by making a selection in the "Choose an Orientation" section of the "Insert Web Component" dialog box. Click the "Finish" button to close the dialog box and open the "Link Bar Properties" dialog box.
7. Select how you want your link bar to appear. Choose which hyperlinks you want added to each page, and click the "OK" button to close the "Link Bar Properties" dialog box and create your link bar based on navigation.

Tips & Warnings

• Double-click the link bar to edit the properties and style of the link bar at any time after you have created it.
• You must have a website set up before you can create a link bar based on navigation in FrontPage.