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Gears

About this Theme Package

The Gears theme package comes with subtle Flash animation of turning gears and two color versions within the same template. You may choose the Normal Color version (shades of greys) or the Vivid Color version (shades of blue) simply by reapplying the theme. Clean layout, easy to use, the Gears package is a solid foundation for a great site. This theme package has been tested to work in Internet Explorer,  Netscape 4.7 and Netscape 6.

Installing

This theme comes with an Installer that will automatically install the theme and template files into the correct places on your computer so that you can access them from FrontPage. After downloading the .exe (usually to your desktop), double-click it to run the installer (make sure FrontPage is closed). Please go to "How to Use" to see what to do after you have installed your template and to make sure that your installation has succeeded.

Troubleshooting

If the installation fails, you can still place your files manually.

  1. First, create a new temporary folder on your desktop. Right-click on the .exe file and select "Extract To..." Browse to your new temporary folder and extract the files there.
  2. Now open Windows Explorer and go to the new folder. You will see some various files and folders. The folders will be labeled for the version of FrontPage that you are using (fp2000, fp2002). Go ahead and open the folder that corresponds to your version of FrontPage.
  3. You will see three folders: Pages, Themes, and Webs. In each of these folders is another folder:
    • Pages\ (no page template)
    • Themes\gears
    • Webs\gears.tem
  4. Right-click on the inner folders (gears.tem, gears, gears.tem) and select Copy. You will want to Paste these inner folders to:
    • Pages\ >> (no page template)
    • Themes\gears >> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Themes\gears
    • Webs\gears.tem >> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs\gears.tem

On rare occasions when you have the installer icon on your desktop and are trying to run it, the installer fails because you have another program named the same as ours somewhere on your computer that is running instead of our installer. In this case, just make a new folder on your desktop, drag the .exe into the folder, and try to run it from there.

How to Use

After you have run the installer, open FrontPage. You may now use the template to create a new web:

  1. Go to File > New > Web (FP2000) or File > New > Page or Web (FP2002). In FP2002, click "Web Site Templates" in the right column.
  2. Choose the "Gears" template. If the Gears template does not show up in your list of templates, the installation may have failed. Check the locations in Step 4 above to see if the files are there. If not, follow the directions above.
  3. After choosing the "Gears" template, specify the location for your new web. Click OK. FrontPage will now make your web!
  4. Open one of the pages and go to File > Preview in Browser. You may choose Internet Explorer. This will help you to see what the web will look like in a browser.
  5. Still in your browser, go to the "Read Me" page to view some important information about using the web template. There are a lot of support topics covered already in the text of this web template, and you may want to read carefully through the web template to learn how to add pages, delete pages, rename pages, etc.
  6. One last thing: Do not drag on the table lines of this theme! This will cause your page to "freeze" so that it no longer resizes properly.

If you have questions that are not found here, please email support@johngaltstools.com.