We will be moving specific FAQ's to different areas as we expand.
Go to the Web Server FAQ's page,
Go to the Theme Designer FAQ's page,
Go to the Navigation FAQ's page,
Go to the CGI FAQ's page,
Or click on a question below.
With your site loaded into
FrontPage Explorer, do the following...
- Click on "File"
- Click on "Publish FrontPage Web"
- Click on "More Webs..."
- On the next screen, type in your
web site address.
If at HyperMart, type username.hypermart.net
If you have a domain name , domainname.com
(or
.net .org)
- Click on "OK"
NOTICE:
You can use the "Publish" Button to publish your
site, AFTER you have gone thru the above routine at least once first, AND it is the ONLY
web site that you publish to. While you can publish your site with the publish button, it
is recommended to always go thru the above steps to publish your site.
To open your site
"live" from the server, do the following...
- Click on "File"
- Click on "Open FrontPage Web"
- Click on "More Webs..."
- On the next screen, type in your
web site address.
If at HyperMart, type username.hypermart.net
If you have a domain name , domainname.com
(or
.net .org)
- Click on "OK"
NOTICE:
Your site will load from the remote server into FrontPage. Whatever you do to your pages,
when you click "Save" in FrontPage Editor, it will
be saving it on
the server.
Remember that your pages on your
hard drive will not be updated by this process. If it is a small change, open your disk
based web and make the same change(s). If you make alot of changes, you should "Publish" from the server to your disk based web.
How do I publish my
site From the server?
With your site loaded into
FrontPage Explorer "live, do the following...
- Click on "File"
- Click on "Publish FrontPage Web"
- Click on "More Webs..."
- On the next screen, type in your
localhost address.
Depending on how you have it set-up, you can
either type in localhost , or the name of your
disk based web.
- Click on "OK"
NOTICE:
If this is a childweb, remember to type
in the appropriate address.
Example: localhost -
Root Web
localhost/childname - childweb
After you make your form, to set
it up to send you an E-Mail when someone fills out the form, do the following:
- Right click inside the Dotted area
of the form.
- Click on "Form Properties..."
- Next to "E-mail Address:" type in the e-mail address you
want the e-mail to be sent to.
- Click "OK"
NOTICE:
If you are making your form on your computer, you will get a warning pop up regarding the
fact that you don't have a Mail Server set up. When it asks you if you want to remove the
E-Mail, click "No". After you publish your site to
a server with the FrontPage extensions set up properly, your form will work, along with
sending you E-Mail when the form is filled out.
What is a
childweb?
When FrontPage creates a
childweb, it makes it just like a completely new web, only thing the path is under the
<Root Web>.
But as far as any of the web
bots, themes, links, borders and such, it is a completely different web site. As
if it was on another server.
For example, if you make a
childweb and on your main site you have a search page, that search page will not find
anything in the child web.
Another reason, suppose you have
a couple of clients who want sites, but do not want to pay for a complete site? Put each
one in a childweb and then they each have their own search page, themes, borders and all.
Also, Search Engines index a childweb as a separate web also, very important to your
clients.
How do I Publish a
childweb?
To Publish to a childweb, do the
following:
With you site
loaded in FrontPage Explorer...
- Click on "File"
- Click on "Publish FrontPage Web"
- Click on "More Webs..."
- On the next screen, type in your
address along with the name you want for the childweb.
Example: username.hypermart.net/childwebname
Or : domainname.com/childwebname
NOTICE:
When you make a childweb, it's as if it's on a completely different site. It can have it's
own theme, links, borders and all. An important thing to remember about childwebs is that
if you have a Search page in your Root Web, it WILL NOT see the childweb. With the
FrontPage Search WebBot, you cannot make it "see" the childweb at all. Also, if
you want to link between the Root Web and the childweb, or childweb to childweb, you have
to use complete links, just as if you were linking to another site somewhere else.
How do I password
protect a childweb?
With your site loaded "live"
from the web in
FrontPage Explorer do the following...
- Click on "Tools"
- Click on "Permissions"
- Check "Use
unique permissions"
- Click on "Apply"
- Click "Users"
tab.
- Click "Add..."
- If you want a different password
and/or username.
- Type in a username
and password for this
childweb.
- Check what the "User Can" do with the new
username and password.
- Click "OK"
- Check "Only
registered users have browse
access"
- Click "OK"
How can I hide part
of my site from searches.
To hide a section of your site
from the FrontPage Search function, put it in a folder and name the folder starting with a
"_" .
Example: to hide a folder
named /reports, rename
it /_reports .
Another way to hide it would be
to put the items in a childweb. That way you can hide it from the Search function of
FrontPage, and if you don't start the childweb with a "_",
regular search engines can find and index that part of your site.
How to have sounds
play in I.E. and N.S.
Using JavaScript.
- Open the page (or create a page)
in FrontPage Editor where you want the sound.
- Position your cursor where you
want to place the tags.
- Click on Insert, HTML Markup.
- Paste the following code within
the HTML Markup:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft",0)>=0)
{
document.write("<BGSOUND SRC=sound.mid LOOP=infinite>")
}
else
{
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape",0)>=0)
document.write("<embed src=sound.mid hidden=true align=baseline border=0 width=128
height=128 autostart=true autoplay=true>")
}
//-->
</script>
OR
In HTML Markup you can insert this code for N.S. browsers and go thru Page
Properties for IE browsers.
<embed src="sound.mid" hidden="true"
align="baseline" border="0" width="128"
height="128" autostart="true" autoplay="true">
- Click "OK"
NOTICE: Substitute the name of your midi file in place of '
sound.mid ' in the script above. If your sound file is not in the same
directory as the page where the script is saved, make sure you add either the relative or
full path to the sound file.
My Images are not
showing up!
If, when you view your site after
publishing, and some or all of your images do not show up, check the following for
problems.
- Are the images and links named the
same.
- Is the case the same? - PIC and
pic are different.
- Do you have the path correct.
- Did you "Import" the pictures into your site first? You should always,
in FP Explorer, click "File" | "Import" | "Add File" |
click on the file you want click on | "Open" |
Click on "OK". Once the image is in the web
site, then insert the image onto your page. By doing it this way, the name and the path
will always be correct.
Blue Border Around
Graphic Links
When you make a graphic link,
sometimes there will be a blue border around the graphic after you set up the hyperlink.
To get rid of the border, right click on the graphic and choose "Image Properties", then click on the "Appearance" tab.
On the next screen, make sure
there is a 0 (zero) in the "Border Thickness" box. Then click "OK"
and you're done.
How to
"Re-Direct" to a different page.
If you want to automatically make
a page load another page in a pre-determined length of time with no input from the user
you need to use a "Meta Refresh" tag.
<meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=new_address.htm">
1 -
- The amount of time in seconds to wait.
new_address.htm
- - page where you want to re-direct to.
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