GENERAL FAQ's

This page contains answers to common questions we have
answered in the newsgroups, along with some tips and tricks
that we have found useful and presented here as questions.

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.

How do I publish my site To the server?
How do I publish my site From the server?
How do I open my site "live" from the server?
How do I set up my Form for E-Mail Return?
What is a childweb?
How do I Publish a childweb?
How do I password protect a childweb?
How can I hide part of my site from searches.
How to have sounds play in I.E. and N.S.
My Images are not showing up!
Blue Border Around Graphic Links
How to "Re-Direct" to a different page.

 

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How do I publish my site To the Server ?

With your site loaded into FrontPage Explorer, do the following...

  1. Click on "File"
  2. Click on "Publish FrontPage Web"
  3. Click on "More Webs..."
  4. 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)
  5. 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.

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How do I open my site "live" from the server?

To open your site "live" from the server, do the
following...

  1. Click on "File"
  2. Click on "Open FrontPage Web"
  3. Click on "More Webs..."
  4. 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)
  5. 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.

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How do I publish my site From the server?

With your site loaded into FrontPage Explorer "live,
do the following...

  1. Click on "File"
  2. Click on "Publish FrontPage Web"
  3. Click on "More Webs..."
  4. 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.
  5. Click on "OK"

NOTICE: If this is a childweb, remember to type
                    in the appropriate address.
Example:  localhost  -                       Root Web
                    localhost/childname  -  childweb

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How do I set up my Form for E-Mail return?

After you make your form, to set it up to send you an
E-Mail when someone fills out the form, do the
following:

  1. Right click inside the Dotted area of the form.
  2. Click on "Form Properties..."
  3. Next to "E-mail Address:" type in the e-mail address you
    want the e-mail to be sent to.
  4. 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.

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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.

 

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How do I Publish a childweb?

To Publish to a childweb, do the following:

    With you site loaded in FrontPage Explorer...

  1. Click on "File"
  2. Click on "Publish FrontPage Web"
  3. Click on "More Webs..."
  4. 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.

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How do I password protect a childweb?

With your site loaded "live" from the web in
FrontPage Explorer do the following...

  1. Click on "Tools"
  2. Click on "Permissions"
  3. Check "Use unique permissions"
  4. Click on "Apply"
  5. Click "Users" tab.
  6. Click "Add..." - If you want a different password
    and/or username.
  7. Type in a username and password for this
    childweb.
  8. Check what the "User Can" do with the new
    username and password.
  9. Click "OK"
  10. Check "Only registered users have browse
    access    "
  11. Click "OK"
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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.

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How to have sounds play in I.E. and N.S.

Using JavaScript.

  1. Open the page (or create a page) in FrontPage Editor
    where you want the sound.
  2. Position your cursor where you want to place the tags.
  3. Click on Insert, HTML Markup.
  4. 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">

  5. 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.

 

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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.

  1. Are the images and links named the same.
  2. Is the case the same? - PIC and pic are different.
  3. Do you have the path correct.
  4. 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.
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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.

 

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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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