Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

878 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
Inserting Interactive Buttons
You might want to insert a button into a page independent of the overall navigational
structure of your site. You can create Interactive Buttons from within FrontPage 2003
without leaving FrontPage 2003 to use a graphics program to create separate graphics
files for each button you want to use. Even more importantly, FrontPage 2003
automatically creates separate buttons for normal, hovered, and pressed states and
automatically includes the Microsoft JScript code necessary to give the buttons their
interactivity. Nice.
To insert an Interactive Button into a page
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1. Open or create the page you want to insert an Interactive Button into using
FrontPage 2003.
2. Click the location you want the Interactive Button to go, and then click the
Interactive Button option on the Insert menu to open the Interactive Buttons
dialog box. (See Figure 32-23.)
Figure 32-23 Interactive Button dialog box
3. Click the button style you want to use in the Buttons scroll box.
4. Type the text you would like to appear on your button in the Text box.
5. Type the URL for the page you want the button to link to in the Link box.
6. Click the Font tab if you want to change the font used on the button, and click
the Image tab if you want to change the button size or give it a transparent
background around the edges.
7. Click the OK button when you are finished, and then you will see the button
on your page. When you save your page, you will be prompted to save three
images for every button. One represents the normal state, one represents the
hovered state, and one represents the pressed state. When you view your page