 I want to use FrontPage. How do I
set it up for my account?
What version of FrontPage Server
Extensions is installed on my web site?
There are bunch of /_vti_xxx/ directories
and files in my public_html directory. Can I delete them?
Does FrontPage support "mailto"
forms?
I am having a lot of problems with
my FrontPage. I am editing my web site on my computer and then uploading
them through FTP. What am I doing wrong?
How Do I insert a hit counter?
I already have the files of my web
site in a directory on my hard drive. How do I publish my Current
FrontPage Web?
NORTBOTS.HTM with Disk-based Webs
My FrontPage web site is generating
error messages and cannot find certain pages. How do I fix this?
What are the FrontPage Server Extensions?
What do I name my files?
What is the FrontPage Editor?
What is the FrontPage Explorer?
I want to use FrontPage.
How do I set it up for my account?
If
you did not request FrontPage Server Extensions when you placed
your order, they are not installed. Please send an e-mail to Support
Department requesting FrontPage support for your web site. Be
sure to include your User ID and domain name. There is no extra
charge for the installation of FrontPage Server Extensions.
What version of FrontPage
Server Extensions is installed on my web site?
We support
FrontPage Server Extensions 2000. However, if you have an older
version of FrontPage, be aware that some WebBot components may not
work well or at all. We do strongly suggest our customers who are
still using FrontPage 97 and 98 to purchase FrontPage 2000 because
of the stability and compatibility with our servers and to utilize
the newest FrontPage components.
There are bunch of /_vti_xxx/
directories and files in my public_html directory. Can I delete
them?
If you
log in to your site with FTP or Telnet and find some directories
(for example, _vti* ) and files (for example, .htaccess ) that you
did not upload, DO NOT delete them. These are FrontPage Server Extensions
components. You will damage the FrontPage support for your web site
if you remove them.
If
you accidentally delete them, please e-mail Support
Department and we will re-install the FrontPage Server Extensions
for you.
Does FrontPage support "mailto"
forms?
Yes.
You must have an addition to your FrontPage form that states:
mailto:your-email@your-domain.com in order to get an information
request form mail to you.
I am having a lot of problems
with FrontPage. I am editing my web site on my computer and then
uploading them through FTP. What am I doing wrong?
A
site created with FrontPage should NOT be uploaded through FTP
or some of the features will not work.
Please
be aware that FrontPage maintains index and configuration files
on the remote site. If you upload web pages to your web site with
FTP, the changes will not be recorded, and FrontPage may begin
to function abnormally thereafter. It is recommended that you
use only FrontPage to modify a FrontPage site.
Here
is the correct way to publish your FrontPage Web:
- Connect
to the Internet
- Start
FrontPage (Explorer). The "Getting Started..." window
will pop up
- Select
[Open FrontPage Web]
- Click
[More Webs...]
- Type
your web site address (for example, www.my-domain.com) in the
box entitled "Select a Web server or disk location"
- Click
[List Webs], select the [Root Web] or the web you wish to edit,
then input your User ID and Password
- You
can now start creating your site by using the example web or
by creating new pages yourself
Note
that if you follow the above process, the [Publish
FrontPage Web...] option is not required. The site is saved
and automatically updated on the Web Server when changes are made.
Please
also note that, by default, your FrontPage and UNIX account Passwords
are the same. You may change the Password for your FrontPage if
desire.
How Do I insert a hit counter?
To insert
a FrontPage hit counter you must:
- In the FrontPage Editor, place the insertion point where you
want to create the Hit Counter.
- On the Insert menu, point to [Active Elements] and then click
[Hit Counter].
- In the Hit Counter Properties dialog box, in the [Counter
Style] field, select a counter style. The counter style is a
series of GIF images containing the digits zero through nine
- To reset the hit counter click [Reset Counter To] and enter
the number to reset the counter to.
- To supply a GIF image containing a customized set of the digits
zero through nine, enter the relative URL of the image in the
[Custom Image] field. Be sure to space these digits evenly in
the custom image.
- Click [OK]
I already have the files
of my web site in a directory on my hard drive. How do I publish
my Current FrontPage Web?
- Close all open pages in the FrontPage Editor.
- Open up your local web site with FrontPage Explorer.
- In the FrontPage Explorer, click the " Publish "
button on the toolbar. The Publish FrontPage Web dialog box
is displayed. In this dialog box, specify the Location or URL
to which you want to publish the current FrontPage web.You need
to be connected to the internet before you can publish to the
World Wide Web.
- In the Publish FrontPage Web dialog box, click OK. The FrontPage
Explorer publishes the FrontPage web from your computer to the
World Wide Web server you specified by typing in your domain
name or IP address.
NORTBOTS.HTM with Disk-based
Webs
Creating
a disk-based web with the run-time components, such as search and
form save result features, will not function properly until the
web is published to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions
installed. When activating a browse-time component on a page from
the disk-based web an end-user will receive a page that says "No
Run-Time Bots Available" (the page is called "nortbots.htm"). The
server extensions must be installed in order for the run-time components
to function and that they are browsing against a web that does not
have the server extensions installed. When you publish a disk-based
web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed
this message is no longer necessary since the "Run-Time Bots" functionality
is now available. However, the links to the "nortbots.htm" page
still exist in the web pages that contain the run-time components
and can result in a "HTTP/1.0 404 Object not found" error when activating
a run-time component. This update corrects the problem by removing
the links to the "nortbots.htm" page when publishing to a FrontPage
extended Web site.
  My FrontPage web site is
generating error messages and cannot find certain pages. How do
I fix this?
Follow
these steps to fix links in your FrontPage Web:
- Open
your FrontPage Web as described here
- In
FrontPage, click on the [Tools] menu and select [Re-calcuate
Hyperlinks]
What are the FrontPage Server
Extensions?
A few
FrontPage features require FrontPage Server Extensions to operate.
One example is the Search FrontPage component, which allows you
to add site-wide searching to your Web site without programming.
For these features to work, the Internet server hosting the FrontPage
Web site must have the FrontPage server extensions installed. FrontPage
includes a set of programs-the FrontPage Server Extensions-that
are installed on the Web server computer on which your FrontPage
webs are stored. If you installed the Microsoft Personal Web Server
or Microsoft Peer Web Services, FrontPage Setup installed the FrontPage
Server Extensions on your PC. The Server Extensions support authoring
and administering FrontPage webs, along with browse-time FrontPage
web functionality. For example, when an author is editing a FrontPage
web, the Server Extensions support copying or publishing it to other
Web servers, creating a table of contents for the web, adding themes
and navigational structure to it, and updating hyperlinks to any
pages that have been moved or renamed. Using the Server Extensions,
an administrator can give a user, group of users, or a specific
computer permissions to edit a FrontPage web, browse to it, or administer
it. When a user browses a FrontPage web, the Server Extensions support
search forms, discussions groups, form processing (including sending
form results using e-mail), and other run-time features.
What do I name my files?
The
starting point for a Web site is called the home page. It is the
page that is retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits
the Web site. The default home-page name for a server depends on
the server configuration. On our Web servers, it is index.htm. Let
FrontPage Explorer name your first page, which in this case will
be index.htm. All other pages that follow can be named whatever
you choose.
Example:
If you are creating a page on cars then you will let FrontPage
Explorer generate the name of the home page or first page for
you which would be index.htm. If the next page you generate has
to do with Ford Motors then you might want to name the second
page fordmotor.htm. Do you see the pattern?
What is the FrontPage Editor?
You
use the FrontPage Editor to create, design, and edit World Wide
Web pages. As you add text, images, tables, form fields, and other
elements to your page, the FrontPage Editor displays them as they
would appear in a Web browser. Although it is a powerful tool, the
FrontPage Editor is easy to use because of its familiar, wordprocessor
interface. You do not need to learn Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
to use the FrontPage Editor because it creates all the HTML code
for you. If you want to edit HTML code directly, you can use the
FrontPage Editor's HTML view. In this view, you can enter text,
edit HTML tags or script code, and use standard word-processing
commands such as cutting, pasting, finding, and replacing.
What is the FrontPage Explorer?
You
use the FrontPage Explorer to create the structure or layout of
your Web site, apply graphical themes to its pages, organize its
files and folders, import and export files, test and repair hyperlinks,
administer access privileges, track tasks, and launch the FrontPage
Editor to design and edit the contents of your Web pages. When your
FrontPage web is completed, you use the FrontPage Explorer to publish
it on your computer or the World Wide Web.
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