I have a website up for a friend of mine, it's at <A HREF=" TARGET="_new"> am using FrontPage 2000, I run Windows 98, got a 475mhz Pentium III, 128 mb of ram, 10 gb drive, you probably don't need all that info, but sometimes when I ask for help people want to know what you got for some reason, oh well, on to my problem...<br><br>While trying to setup this website, I cannot seem to put hover buttons on the website! I have looked in help for FP2000...this is the 4th forum that I have posted this question, I have looked at 6 tutorials, nothing seems to help! I did find one thing...in the _fpclass directory there was nothing in there, I saved the hover button classes in _fpclass directory but it still won't work, any help would be appreciated...<br><br>spike232 <br><A HREF="mailto:mmccormick0@yahoo.com">mmccormick0@yahoo.com</A>
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Hover Button help please...
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[this is from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID: Q176900]<br>[<A HREF=" TARGET="_new">]<br><br><br><br><br><br>Start FrontPage Explorer. <br>On the File menu, click Open FrontPage Web. <br>In the Getting Started dialog box, click More Webs. <br><br>In the Open FrontPage Web dialog box, type the path for your Web, and then click List Webs. <br><br><br>Select your Web. When you receive the following message, click Yes: <br><br>"FrontPage needs to convert this folder into a new FrontPage Web by adding the files and folders necessary to support FrontPage features.Do you want to convert this folder to a FrontPage Web?" <br><br><br>Select the folder that contains your Web and click OK. <br><br>In FrontPage Explorer, double-click the page on which you want to insert the Hover Button. The page will open in FrontPage Editor. <br><br>On the Insert menu, point to Active Elements, and then click Hover Button. <br><br>On the File menu, click Save. <br><br>When you click the Preview tab or use the Preview In Browser command on the File menu, You will see the active element rather than a gray box. <p>John Vogel<br><a href=mailto:johnvogel@homepage.com>johnvogel@homepage.com</a><br><a href= FreeDSL Service</a><br>[To a get FREE DSL Modem WITH FREE DSL Unlimited Internet Connection click the above link 
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Hey John, thanx again, and it did work, when I go into preview, it does show the active elements, but when I publish it to the web, it still shows just a grey box! In the preview it works good, everything is fine, but I when I publish it, it won't work! <br><br>spike232
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hmmmm... Nothing else on the KB article helped? <p>John Vogel<br><a href=mailto:johnvogel@homepage.com>johnvogel@homepage.com</a><br><a href= FreeDSL Service</a><br>[To a get FREE DSL Modem WITH FREE DSL Unlimited Internet Connection click the above link ]
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Ok John I took a look at that page you listed, and it seems like I don't have FrontPage Explorer, I did'nt know that FrontPage Explorer and FrontPage Editor was different..when you lent me your disks, I may have forgotten/did'nt know to install the editor off the disks, I believe Tammy still has your disks, so I will get in touch with her, and see if I can them back so I can install the editor....<br><br>this helps out a great deal... <br><br>thanks<br><br>spike232
The reason it shows up as a grey box is because your monitor is set at 256 colors. I was designing a web site, and we experimented with different color settings to see what they looked like. They looked fine under the higher settings, but didn't come out at all under 256.<br><br><br> <p>Linda Adams<br><a href=mailto:Garridon@aol.com>Garridon@aol.com</a><br><a href= Adams Online</a><br>I'm a professional writer, published internationally.
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First of all check that you get the hover buttons in your preview mode. <br> If yes, and you dont get the hover buttons on the web, means that there is some problem in uploading. Have you uploaded with 'Publish' command ?<br><br> If no, then you have a basic problem. Checkout your, folder which stores the pages. Mostly its under 'FrontPage Webs\Content\your server name'. Here you should have a subfolder _fpclass containing two files : fphover.class and fphoverx.class. Check this out.
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Yes, it shows up in the "preview in a browser" area, and no it does'nt show up on the web...also the file _fpclass does contain both of those classes, though I could'nt open them, maybe their corrupt? I don't know, but I know they won't show up on the web....I would still like to know what's going on with it but I already gave up on them...I just went to regular text...<br><br>spike232
<br><br>spike232 I had the same problem with just seeing the gray boxes.
Found that all I had to do was install Active X on the browser I was using to test my web site with.
Install the current Axtive X.
Let me know if it worked.
Good Luck [sig]<p>Dirk Brandon<br><a href=mailto:mail@powerserviceinc.com>mail@powerserviceinc.com</a><br><a href= Service, Incorporated</a><br>Self taught over the last 10 years in Windows 3x,95,98,NT and now 2000. Self taught in Linex, Unix and the all popular Prophet 21 Acclam 10.2<br>
And now working on my Web Masters[/sig]
Found that all I had to do was install Active X on the browser I was using to test my web site with.
Install the current Axtive X.
Let me know if it worked.
Good Luck [sig]<p>Dirk Brandon<br><a href=mailto:mail@powerserviceinc.com>mail@powerserviceinc.com</a><br><a href= Service, Incorporated</a><br>Self taught over the last 10 years in Windows 3x,95,98,NT and now 2000. Self taught in Linex, Unix and the all popular Prophet 21 Acclam 10.2<br>
And now working on my Web Masters[/sig]
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