Editing Shared Borders
What do you do when you want to put a JavaScript in a shared border?
You will have to include the "head" section of the javascript into the head of each page that has that shared border.
Things you can not do
- Give shared borders shared borders.
- Apply a JavaScript to your shared borders by putting the "head" script only in the top shared border.
- Apply a separate theme to the shared borders.
- Apply different shared borders to different pages in the same web. You must use sub webs to do this.
Things You can do
- Add JavaScript to a shared border.
- Anything you want to, within reason.
- Move a shared border to a different area of your page. Like...putting the left shared border navigation in a table on the right side of your page. As you see in this area of this site. The navigation on the right IS FrontPage generated left shared border navigation.
How do I Do It?
It's not a matter of working with the shared border as much as it is accessing that shared border.
Go to your web, not through FrontPage, but just navigate to its' home on your hard drive, zip, or wherever you keep it.
Open the folder, open the _borders folder. Then right click on the border you want to edit. Choose edit. It will open up all by itself in FrontPage. Don't get excited when you see FrontPage open, that's what you want.
Give it a second or two to get itself ready for you to work with it.
Now treat it as if it were any other page. But remember, when you make these changes, it will be on every page in your web that uses that shared border.
Close FrontPage, saving your changes. Then open the web. Your new shared borders will be there.
Remember, if you add JavaScript to a shared border, you must still put the <head> portion of the script on every page you want the JavaScript to be functional. This sounds like a lot of work, but if you need to update that script, you only need to do it once. (As in adding extra links to a drop down.)
Moving the FrontPage Generated Navigation
Create a template page. Insert the left shared border navigation. While it is still highlighted, drag it to the position you want on the page.
Return to Shared borders properties and remove the left shared border.
Create your new pages from the template.
To change existing pages, copy and paste content from the existing page to the template page. Close the original page and save the template page with the original pages name, overwriting the original. Close this page and reopen your template, do it again until your whole site is recreated.