Giving Your Borders a Shaded Effect

FrontPage makes it very simple for you to create the shaded effect on your borders. It is a matter of manipulating your border colors, border width, cellpadding and cellspacing. I will show the steps used to create this Shaded Border page.

Create a new blank page
Click Insert then Background and the window shown on your right will appear. You can choose to add a background picture, choose background color or get a background from another page you have in your web. I have chosen Background Color (see the red 1)
This will provide your page with a universal background color as long as the tables you put in next are left without a background color or graphic.
Click OK once you have chosen your color or graphic and your page will now hold your background.
You now want to create your first table, click on Table and then Insert and the window as shown at the right will appear.
Under Size, change your Rows and Columns both to 1
Under Layout, change Alignment to Center
Make sure Specify Width is checked and it says 100 and In percent is chosen.
The Border Size I chose for my all of my tables was 5
The Cell padding was set up as below
- Table 1 - 30
- Table 2 - 20
- Table 3 - 10
- Table 4 - 15
The Cell spacing I chose for all the tables was 1
Once you have your preferences set click OK and your table is created.
Most likely your table will hold a black border, this is what you are going to work on next.
Right click inside your table and choose Table Properites. You will see the Table Properties window pop up as shown in the graphic to your right.
Your Layout should already be set up, just look at all the options and be sure they are as you set them up when you created your table.
Under Borders the size should already be set up, and you can alter it if you choose.
Don't worry about the Color option you are going to choose a Light Border and a Dark Border instead. Click on the arrows beside each and choose your light and dark border colors.
When you are done click OK and your border for your first table will be altered from it's original form.
Within your new table you want to create another table, following steps 5 to 18 will create your next table and repeat until you have all your tables created.
Finally, add your graphics and text to your page and you are finished. Save your page.

You may want to play with the settings for the border colors and cell padding, cell spacing, border size to see the different effects you can create with them.

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