Shared Borders Problem???

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Yesterday when I went to update my web I noticed that at
the top of my home page (using FP in normal view)there was
the text top.htm. I checked several other pages in my web
and they all contained the same thing. I examined top.htm
and found it to be empty. Is this what happens if top.htm
is cleared (empty)? What should be in this file? I am
using an FP theme for my web as follows:

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<title>My Web Name</title>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="nature 111, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="t">
</head>
 
I restored a backup copy of top.htm and now the home page
looks normal again. However, when I view the page with a
browser the font size and color are not the same as what I
see when in FP normal view. How can that be?
 
Yep, that's what happens if you clear those shared border .htm pages, it
will empty any border that is sharing them.

You may want to switch to using tables and Included Content/Page... it
gives you the same effect as shared borders, but much more control.
 
Now when a page is viewed by a browser the font size and
color used in the border are NOT the same as what I see in
FP normal view. How can that be?
 
Did you assign fonts to the text directly or via CSS, if not then the fonts will be the user's
browser's defaults.

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I am using the fonts imposed by the page theme. I did not
manually assign them.
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Did you assign fonts to the text directly or via CSS, if
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not then the fonts will be the user's
 
I am having the same problem as you have discussed. I
have tried some things, but have had no luck in fixing
this strange webbot related problem. I think it is a bug
in the FP extensions running on the server, but who knows.
I will be checking for a solution.
Mack
 
Can you provide a URL to the page(s) in question, and what font we are suppose to be seen or the
name of the theme?

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The page theme is nature. The title should be Trebuchet
MS, 24 pt, green. The top navigation bar should be
Trebuchet MS, 12 pt, navy (00,00,80) hex. I believe these
are the defaults for the theme. The url is
www.troop62.kennett.net.
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Can you provide a URL to the page(s) in question, and
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what font we are suppose to be seen or the
 
The font is correct, however the color and size is not.

You have to actually modify the font color and font size under the theme, then save the theme under
a new name, then remove the current theme, then apply your modified theme.

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That seems like a pretty extreme measure. How could the
theme have been previously modified? I've done some
reading and it seems the banner (BSA Troop 62) at the top
of the page is a derived gif stored in a hidden
folder /_derived. FP 2002 will not allow me to see that
particular hidden folder. Is there some way to force FP to
recreate that derived gif? The page use to display
properly; could some event have caused FP to recreate that
gif? If I could see the file I could check when it was
last modified.
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The font is correct, however the color and size is not.

You have to actually modify the font color and font size
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under the theme, then save the theme under
 
The banners and button are recreated whenever you rename, delete or add pages in Navigation View.

You try removing the theme, and then re-adding it.

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Problem solved. Removing the theme and then re-adding the
theme did not work. However, while re-adding the theme I
noticed that the text color for the top navigation bar (as
seen in the Format Theme window) was not the proper color
(navy). I reset the font color for the top navigation bar
ONLY and saved the modified theme; FP did not ask me to
rename the theme when I clicked save. Now the font size
and color are back to what they use to be for the banner,
top, and left side navigation bars. I can't explain what
happen but thanks to all for your helping suggestions.
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The banners and button are recreated whenever you rename,
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delete or add pages in Navigation View.
 
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