Add a navigation bar to a page

A navigation bar is a set of text or button hyperlinks that a site visitor uses to get to the pages in your Web site. A typical navigation bar might have buttons to the site's home page and to each of the main top-level pages. When you add a navigation bar to a page, FrontPage generates the navigation hyperlinks based on the the navigation structure you have set up in Navigation view.

You have the following options when adding a FrontPage navigation bar:

• Choose a vertical or horizontal layout for the navigation bar — for example, use a horizontal navigation bar across the top of a page, and use a vertical navigation bar down the side of the page.
• Choose the type of hyperlinks to display — buttons (choose this option only when you're using a theme) or text.
• Choose which hyperlinks to display on the navigation bar:
  • Hyperlinks to pages on the same level as the current page
  • Hyperlinks to pages above the current page (parent level)
  • Hyperlinks to pages under the current page (child level)
  • Hyperlinks to the child pages of the home page
  • Hyperlinks to pages at the top level of your web
  • Back and Next hyperlinks for browsing a sequence of same-level pages
  • A hyperlink to the web's home page or a page's parent page
• You can add navigation bars to any page

1. In Page view, position the insertion point where you want to place the navigation bar. For example, click inside a shared border region to place a navigation bar inside a shared border.
2. On the Insert menu, click Navigation Bar.
3. Under Hyperlinks to add to page, select the type of hyperlinks you want on the navigation bar.
4. Under Orientation and appearance, specify whether you want the navigation bar to be horizontal or vertical, and whether to display text or buttons. You should only select Buttons if you are using a theme.

The navigation bar is added to your page. If a theme has been applied to your web, button navigation bars will use fonts, colors, and other style elements from the theme.

Change which pages are displayed on a navigation bar

You can change the hyperlinks that are displayed on a navigation bar. For example, if you have a navigation bar that displays buttons for Back, Next, and Home, you can change the navigation bar to display buttons for the top-level pages instead.

You can display the following hyperlinks on a navigation bar:

• Hyperlinks to pages on the same level as the current page
• Hyperlinks to pages under the current page (child level)
• Hyperlinks to pages above the current page (parent level)
• Hyperlinks to the child pages of the home page
• Hyperlinks to pages at the top level of your web
• Back and Next hyperlinks for browsing a sequence of same-level pages
• A hyperlink to the web's home page or to the page's parent page

1. In Page view, double-click the navigation bar.
2. Under Hyperlinks to add to page, specify the hyperlinks you want to display