Open your page (the one to which you wish to apply the template)
Close the page (the one to which you wish to apply the template)
Select the Web Site [tab] at top
Select the page (the one to which you wish to apply the template)
Rename the page from .htm to .cfm (using right click rename or F2)
Double-click the page (the one to which you wish to apply the template)
to open for editing
Click on the bottom left tab for "Code"
Highlight and copy (Ctrl+C) this line beginning with < and ending with >
<cfinclude
template="/template/top.cfm">
Paste (Ctrl+V) this line immediately above the <body> tag in the
page that you have open in FrontPage
Scroll or Ctrl+End to the bottom of the code
Copy this line beginning with < and ending with >
<cfinclude
template="/template/bottom.cfm">
Paste (Ctrl+V) this line immediately following the </body> tag in the
page that you have open in FrontPage
File [Menu]
Save [pull-down menu]
Check all the links that refer to the page you changed. You may need to change links that reference the file directly.
Note 1: If you are changing the index.htm file to index.cfm, change all
referring links to point to the folder name.
Note 2: You will not see the template pulled into FrontPage. You can view
the template in Internet Explorer. See images below from
FrontPage and
Internet Explorer.
Note 3: You will not see the hitcounter (as part of the bottom.cfm
template) at the very bottom until the page has been visited two times.
