Navigation Structure

You can create a navigation structure for the current web by organizing pages in Navigation view. This navigation structure shows how pages in your web are related to each other, and provides FrontPage with a way to set up navigation bars. For example, the navigation structure tells FrontPage which pages are the top-level pages; FrontPage uses this information to determine which hyperlinks to put on a navigation bar, and the page titles determine the labels for the hyperlinks.

The following example shows the structure of a web:

Following is an explanation of the relationships between these pages:

The home page is the first page added to a navigation structure, typically named Default.htm or Index.htm, and is indicated by . In this example, Welcome is the home page.

Top-level pages are at the same level as — but not including — the home page. In this example, the top-level pages are Description and Contact Us.

Parent-level pages include the parent page of another page, plus pages that are directly connected to the parent page on the same level. In this example, the parent-level pages for What's New are Welcome (the parent page), Description, and Contact Us. Similarly, the parent-level pages for Downloads are Products (the parent page), What's New, and Services. However, Employment is not included because it is not connected to Products.

Child-level pages are pages directly below another page. In this example, Welcome has three child pages (What's New, Products, and Services), Contact Us has one child page (Employment), and Products has two child pages (Downloads and Ordering).

Same-level pages are pages that are on the same level in the structure and have the same parent page. In this example, What's New, Products, and Services are same-level pages, but Employment is not because it has a different parent page. Downloads and Ordering are also same-level pages.