How To Recreate A SharePoint Navigation Bar with FrontPage 2003
Today just a little trick that I needed when I started to
customize SharePoint sites with FrontPage 2003. One of the
first things you'll probably be doing when you want to alter
how a SharePoint site looks, is deleting some table rows and
cells from the default SharePoint layout. Sometimes it
happens that you (accidentally?) delete one element too
much… (at least it happened to me!). A tricky one to get
back is the SharePoint navigation bar on top of the screen.
To imitate the “real” one you can paste following HTML into
your page:
<table class="ms-bannerframe" border="0"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"
height="25px">
<tr>
<td
class=ms-banner width=100% nowrap ID="myNavigationBar"
valign="middle">
<!--webbot
bot="Navigation"
S-Type="sequence"
S-Orientation="horizontal"
S-Rendering="html"
S-Btn-Nml="<a
ID='onettopnavbar#LABEL_ID#' href='#URL#'
accesskey='J'>#LABEL#</a>"
S-Btn-Sel="<a ID='onettopnavbar#LABEL_ID#' href='#URL#'
accesskey='J'>#LABEL#</a>"
S-Btn-Sep="&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"
B-Include-Home="FALSE"
B-Include-Up="FALSE"
S-Btn-Nobr="FALSE"
U-Page="sid:1002"
S-Target -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
But you can be a little more creative too by creating your own navigation bar. From the Insert menu in FrontPage, choose the “Navigation…” menu item. A new window will show up in which you can choose what type of navigation bar you want; for now let’s choose a “Bar with custom links”.
Click Next so you can choose the style in which you want to
display the navigation links. In the last screen of the
wizard you select the orientation of the navigation bar
(I’ve chosen vertical). In the link bar properties window
you can add links to the navigation bar; if you choose
“SharePoint Top NavBar” you’ll get all the links of the
default navigation bar. That’s it, The vertical navigation
bar is finished! If you want do dig deeper into SharePoint
customization with FrontPage, take a look at
Yves Kerwyn's blog post
about this topic.