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2. Page Template
The page template needs to be used along with the applied theme in order to get the look you want.
First open FrontPage and then go to File/New/Page. Now select the appropriate theme icon from the list and click OK.
Your template should now appear in FrontPage and enable you to create your own web structure from individual pages.
The banner and navigation buttons will not work until you have saved this page and added it to the "Navigation View". 
If the page does not "look right" (the fonts and colors are wrong and the bullets and rules do not use the ones from the theme), you may have to apply the theme. Right-click on the page and select Theme (or go to Format | Theme). The Theme dialog box will pop up. Select the correct theme and click OK. This should fix the problem.

FAQ

My page looks funny. What's wrong?

First, click on the Preview tab on the bottom or go to File | Preview in Browser. Chances are that your page just looks funny in Normal View. If you see small gaps in between images in Normal View, don't worry! If the page template uses tables to lay out the images, Normal View pushes the pictures around slightly to make room for the table guidelines. They will disappear and fit nicely when you look at the page with a browser.

I don't have any buttons or banners on my page.
Some of the navigation bars aren't showing up.

You may see something like [Add this page to the Navigation View to display hyperlinks here] or [Change the properties of this Navigation bar...]. In the first case, you will need to add your page to navigation view. Click on Navigation in the left Views column, then drag your page from the Folder List column into the navigation structure.

In the second case, right-click on the [Change the properties...] text and select Navigation Bar Properties. Look at what kind of navigation has been selected. It's possible that there are no pages for that kind of navigation -- for example, if you have "Child Pages" selected, but the page has no child pages, then the navigation bar will not display. (Read more about the Navigation Bar.)

Save your changes and go to File | Preview in Browser to make sure everything worked.

The buttons and banners show up as text, not as graphics.

The theme is probably not applied. Go to Format | Theme and you will probably find that "No Theme" is selected. Select your theme and this should fix the problem.

You may also want to check the Navigation Bar Properties (right-click on the Navigation bar) and make sure that "Buttons" is selected under "Orientation and Appearance."

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