Vertical
Market Packs

Yes, we understand how hard it can be to start from a scratch—that blank screen staring back at you. Those strange messages you hear from the fillings in your teeth. But don't worry, we have solutions!

Just add your own text and graphics. Then you'll have a professionally designed and organized site, without really trying.

• News / Newsletter
• Photography
• Health Care
• Accounting/Bookkeeping/Office Management
• Real Estate
   
• Saving and unpacking a template on your computer
• Creating a site based on our template
• Coming Attractions
• Other sites that offer free templates

What's a vertical market? Just the technical term for a specific market, such as real estate, travel agencies, restaurants, Bed & Breakfast Inns, or any other particular business.

Each month we'll provide at least one of these markets with a site created just for them. It contains a professionally designed SiteStyle, and is set up into pages covering the topics you need to cover.

Just add your own text and graphics (and you may not even need graphics—take a look), and voila, a professional-looking site. Think of it like Hamburger Helper, but for your business, and more tasteful.

News/Newsletter

Here's a new "newsy" template designed by Daniel & Toni Will-Harris that makes your words look more newsworthy. The standard version (above) features "sticky-note" type navigation that rotates and changes color (a double whammy).

• See how the site looks for real.
• Download the template
• Learn how to save the template
• Learn how to use the template

The cut out tab version (above) uses what looks like cut out tabs, and shows off NetObjects Fusion's ability to rotate text it generates on nav buttons.

• See how the site looks for real.
• Download the template
• Learn how to save the template
• Learn how to use the template

Health Care

Gary Priester's clean, uncluttered design is also soft, rounded and personable. The background is subtle, with large "sign-like" international icons. The buttons are "mouse-sensitive" which means that when your mouse goes over them, they change--automatically, no programming involved.

The template includes Bitstream's Handel Gothic, a distinctive modern typeface used on buttons and banners. NetObjects Fusion automatically turns these into graphics, so that everyone can see them. Since Fusion generates this text, when you rename pages, the graphic buttons and banners automatically update. Click here to see the actual site.

Click here to download the template.

• The file is a zip file, so you will need a copy of WinZip for Windows or UnStuffit for the Mac in order to open it.
• Create a new directory under your \NetObjects Fusion\Templates\ folder. You can call it anything you want.
• Make sure to check Use Folder Names when you unzip the file. This will ensure that files are put in the right place. While you can create any folder name you want for the template, the files inside it (for styles and assets) must be in folders with their original names.
• Also make sure to add the style to your Fusion styles list. Go into Style mode, then choose Style/Add Style to List and point to the .SSF file in the style directory under the template directory. It's easier than it sounds :)

Accounting, Bookkeeping and Office Management

This simple, effective design by Gary Priester uses a realistic pencil for the banner. NetObjects Fusion automatically etches the page title onto the pencil. The buttons are office folder tabs. Click here to see the actual site.

Click here to download the template.

Real Estate

Click here to view site

We consulted one of the top producing agents in Northern California and created a template site that contains what he would (and does) include on his own site.

• Click here to view the site in your browser.
• Click here to download the template.

Saving and unpacking
a template

Templates are saved as zip files, so you will need a copy of WinZip for Windows to open it.

• Create a new directory under your \NetObjects Fusion\Templates\ folder. You can call it anything you want.
• Make sure to check Use Folder Names when you unzip the file. This will ensure that files are put in the right place. While you can create any folder name you want for the template, the files inside it (for styles and assets) must be in folders with their original names.
• To create your own file from the template, start Fusion and choose "Create New Site from Template," then choose the template you just saved

To create your site
based on our template

1. Start NetObjects Fusion.
2. Select From AutoSite or Template (if you've set NetObjects Fusion to open without the opening dialog box, choose File/New/From Template).
3. Go to the folder where you unzipped the template.
4. Select the template.
5. NetObjects Fusion will ask you to give the new site a name. You can call it anything you want.
6. NetObjects Fusion will copy all the files to the folder with the name you just gave it. You're now ready to edit the site. If you make unwanted changes to the site and want to return to the original, just repeat these steps and create a new site from the Real Estate template.

Note: Because these templates are free, we cannot offer support for them. We've tested them, and they work for us, but there are no warranties implicit or implied and you use these at your own risk. Yes, that all sounds scary and official, but no one who's tested them has had problems, so we're hoping you won't either. If you do, try using one of NetObjects's Newsgroups, they're a great way to get answers.

If you have suggestions about how we might make future templates better (or improve the ones we already have, please send us e-mail.

Links to other styles on the web:

• WebSpice
• Redleaf UK
• ThemePak