Add template to My Templates

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me how to get a custom website template to show up in My
Templates tab of the Web Site Templates dialog box?

 

[David Berry]

File, Save As and choose FrontPage Template. Give it a name and it will
appear on the my Templates tab when you choose More Page Templates.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, David, for the quick reply. The site has already been saved as a
template. I am trying to switch computers and make the template that I have
been using on one computer available on my new computer. I have copied it to
the new computer and when I open it in FP, all of the Save options are grayed
out.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Try renaming the template to have a .htm extension, then try saving as a template.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Guest]

Didn't work. I renamed the website folder from Custom.tem to Custom.htm -
opened the site and still can't Save. I also tried taking the extension off
of the folder totally - still no Save options.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Rename the actual template file to .htm, import into your current open FP web, then open and save as
a template.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Guest]

At the risk of sounding really stupid, what is the "actual template file"?

 

[David Berry]

It's the file you named with the .tem extension. Ex: mytemplate.tem. Just
do a search for it on your hard drive.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The file that you see when you open the actual .tem folder.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Guest]

The tem folder has lots of files in it. It is a whole web site. When I open
any of the files within the folder, I do have the save options, but isn't
that only saving that one page as a template? I need the whole site to be
saved as a website template.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Sound like you save a site as template, not just a page.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Guest]

Exactly - the template is a website template - not a web page template. The
folder was named custom.tem. It is this folder that I need to see on the "My
Templates" tab of the "Web Site Templates" dialog box.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Sorry, I have no idea how to import that from one web to another.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Guest]

Thank you, Thomas and David, for spending so much of your time helping me
with this. Because of your answers, I was able to finally find out where to
copy the folder. When trying to save an individual page as a Template, I was
able to follow the default path for page templates and found the web
templates folder. I copied my template folder into there and Voila!! it now
appears on the My Templates tab. Since it was already a template, I guess I
did not have to actually save it as a template - I just needed to find the
correct place to copy it.
Thanks again!!!!!