FrontPage FAQ
Password Protection
Here's how to set permissions and work with subwebs for parts of your site.
Click here to learn more.
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Form Email
Won't Work
FrontPage forms only
send email if the host server has FrontPage Server
Extensions configured to recognize a mail server.
You can direct your host to the
FP Server Extensions Resource Kit for
information on how to properly set up hosting for
FrontPage users.
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FrontPage and AOL
America Online (AOL) uses unique proprietary dialer software. This article
describes several items you should keep in mind if you are using FrontPage with America Online's
Internet software.
Click here to
learn more.
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FrontPage without FrontPage
Server Extensions
I always recommend that you get a host with FrontPage server extensions enabled.
FrontPage works much better that way. Here is an article for you if you must do without FP extensions.
Click here to
learn more.
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FrontPage
Search Bot Doesn't Work
FrontPage sites hosted on NT servers running IIS default to use Microsoft Index Server
instead of FrontPage WAIS. This requires the server administrator to be involved if you want to add a
search component to your site. This article describes how to switch from Index Server to FrontPage
WAIS thus allowing web masters to add and configure their own FP Search Bots.
Click here to
learn more.
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How can I make my FrontPage form send emails to multiple
recipients?
You can have a single form send to multiple email addresses, but the solution is not elegant. What you
do is create multiple copies of your form. Set each copy to email a different individual. Set the
confirmation page of the first form to be the second form. Set the confirmation of the second to be the
third, and so on until you have all the emails accounted for. The user will only see the first form
and the final confirmation page.
Note : It has been proven to work on some
Unix based servers, by placing a comma between
recipients.
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Cannot
Preview In Browser While
Offline
This article helps you configure IE to allow you to view your local site while offline.
Click here to
learn more.
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JavaScript Rollovers
Here's a nice tool to help you write the JavaScript for rollovers.
Click here for the Mouseover
Whipper
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Drop Down Jump Box
Here are two alternative scripts with implementation advice. (Keep in mind that you
should copy/paste html code examples from web pages into notepad before pasting them into FrontPage
html mode.)
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How do I
remove underlines from
hyperlinks?
In FrontPage 2000, you have to go into the source code. Find the href tag which will look something
like this <a href="file.htm">link</a>. Add code like this. <a href="file.htm" STYLE="text-decoration:
none;">. Alternately, you can produce a style sheet in the header of your html code or in an external .css
file to turn off underlining in all your links. The code for that would look like this in the header.
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My graphics are not appearing on my page
when it is published.
You probably have absolute paths to images on your computer's hard drive instead of relative paths
to the images in your images folder. The most likely cause for this is that you edited your pages with
FrontPage but not inside a FrontPage Web -- a web created by doing File > New > Web. Another cause can
be that you inserted your images by browsing to them on your hard drive. You should always drag/drop
your images into your images folder and then insert them onto pages by browsing to the images within
your web.
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How do I make a
pop up window?
Here's the code for that. Note that you can change the width and height attributes to suit your
needs. Changing attribute values from 0 to 1 will turn them on. For instance toolbar=0 means that the
browser toolbar doesn't show up in the popup window.
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My site is a
mess in Netscape, what
should I do?
The most likely cause if this is that you designed your site using FrontPage absolute positioning.
FrontPage 2000 absolute positioning does not work in Netscape browsers. You will have to rebuild your
pages using tables to get your desired layout in Netscape.
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Error on 'uploading' form/cannot publish (extensions problems
generally)
In the case of a publishing error message, you need to contact your host and provide the exact text of
the error message.
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How do I
open my web site live?
File > Open Web > Type in your url (including http://) like this http://www.url.com > Open > Enter
UserID and Password.
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How do I add a music file/word doc/video clip/whatever so that users can click on a link and open/download
it?
Drop the file into your web, and link to it the same way you link to a normal web page. You may need to
zip the file if you want it to automatically download instead of opening. A tip from Gorilla of the OutFront Forums: "Save Word docs as Rich Text Format (.rtf) files. That way those people
who don't use the latest and greatest version of word will be able to read them too, as will those
people who use another word processing package.
In Word > File > Save As > Then select Rich text format for m the drop down list."
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Can I use an
image instead of the submit
button on a form?
Insert > Form > Picture. For an image reset button, just insert an image and hyperlink it to the page
form page itself. This will refresh your page and reset the form.
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Why do you people dislike
hover buttons?
They don't work in all browsers.
They take a long time to load.
The cursor doesn't change to a hand on mouseover.
Search engine spiders can't follow their links to index a site.
You can't stack them vertically without some space appearing between buttons.
The list goes on and on.
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Why do you people dislike
frames?
Usability tests consistently show that users find them confusing.
Other webmasters cannot link to specific information inside your site.
Seach engine spiders cannot get past a frameset page to index your site unless you use the no frames tag
in which case you risk search engine links to pages outside of your frameset.
How do I
redirect a page automatically?
Content=5 means that the browser will wait 5 seconds to redirect.
Content can be set as low as 0. URL can be an absolute path to a page in another site or a relative
path to a page in your site in which case it would look like this. URL="file.htm"
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What do the
metatags the FP puts in mean? Can I erase them?
You don't need them for anything. You can
erase them by doing File > Page Properties > Custom >
Click remove for "Generator" and "ProgID."
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What is the purpose of the
_vti folders
FP puts in my web? Can I delete them?
These are required files if you are using FrontPage
extensions. They are updated when you save a file to your FrontPage web, when you move a file, every
time you publish and every time you import or export a file or folder to or from your web.
If you are not using FP extensions they have no function and you can delete them.
