Get Started

This is the page template for eXPansive...

Replace this with your own content.

I made a new web, now what?

1. If you only see text links instead of theme navigation buttons, you may need to apply the theme. Go to Format/Theme and choose the eXPansive theme and apply it with all boxes checked.
2. Read through all the pages to learn about how to use this web template. You may wish to start at the Site Map. Other pages to note: how to create a new web.
3. Look through the pages in this web template and decide which ones you want to keep and which ones you want to delete. Note that you can rename pages instead of deleting them. You may want to work out on paper your navigation structure and the different pages that you will have.
4. Go through the process of adding/deleting pages and adding your content. Finally, publish your web!

Changing Layout

We have formatted the tables so that this page will look good and resize in Netscape and Internet Explorer. If you wish to change the layout, please follow these instructions.

About this page layout
This page has been very carefully formatted with different nesting tables so that it resizes both vertically and horizontally. Do not drag on any table lines - you may "freeze" the page so that it no longer resizes properly.

Adding other columns to the page
This main body text along with the top blue box for the Swish movie is within a nested table. You may click in here and go to Table > Split Cells to form more columns, or click within a cell, go to Table > Select > Cell to highlight the cell, and Delete the cell (Table > Delete Cells).

Search-engine friendly text
We've put a blue row at the top of the page where you can type in your search-engine friendly text.

Your Logo Here
Replace this graphic with your own. Be sure to keep it the same dimensions. We've included a Photoshop file in the images folder for your convenience.

Editing Swish movies

You need to own Swish in order to edit the Swish movies. (Please note that the moving sky is not a Swish movie and you cannot edit it.) All movies are in a subfolder called "flash."

There are two movies -- one called "homepage.swi" and one called "needswish.swi." You may edit these movies by opening them in Swish and deleting the text layers, then adding your own text and effects. Swish has a lot of built-in help and tutorials that you may find useful. You may also "Save As" these files under different names if you want to have several different movies (for example, have a different movie for each page). We recommend that you keep the movies at the same dimension for easy replacement in FrontPage.

Export the movies in swf format to your hard drive, then import the movies into FrontPage, by first clicking on the "flash" folder to select it, then going to File > Import. Click "Add" and browse to your movies, then click OK until your movies are imported. If you are using the same file names, go ahead and replace the existing movies with your own.

If you have created different Swish movies, simply go into HTML view and change the file name of the Swish movie. There are two places you will need to do this:

codebase="http://active.macromedia.c ...
value="flash/needswish.swf"><param name="quality" ...><embed name="homepage"
src="flash/needswish.swf" quality="high"

Type in the file name of your new Swish movie, and save.

If you do not own Swish, you may delete the movie and replace it with your own image, text, or animation. See the Read Me page for an example.