Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Publishing problem 1

[fallyhag]

I am using MS FrontPage 2000 to create a website however after months of using it I have now tried to sort out all the pages I create into folders so it is more organised and easier to fault find.
The problem I have is that when I click to publish the site, it goes through the motions of updating my Geocities site but after it is done I have a look at my newly published site but nothing has changed?

Is this because my HTM pages are now hid in folders and the software is not clever enough or what? Do I have to remove the organised folders and have all the HTM pages in one large root directory?

I have been forced back to using CuteFTP 4.0 but I am fed up of updating those pages that do not need updating. Is CuteFTP able to update only modified files and how?

Many thanks for any advice

Fallyhag

 

[RickSpr]

Did you reorganize your pages by using the FrontPage folder pane to create new folders and drag and drop files to them? If you do that, FrontPage will fix all the links for you; otherwise it will just see the files as deleted.

You might want to check whether you're excluding pages from publication. In the folder pane, right click a page, select properties, and click on the Workgroup tab. At the bottom is a check box to exclude the page when publishing. Rick Sprague

 

[JohnYingling]

Are those regular folders or did you convert them to Web folders? When publishing, you can publish changed pages or all pages and there is a checkbox for sub webs, which you have if those "folders" are web folders.

http://WWW.VBCompare.Com

 

[fallyhag]

JohnYingling

Thanks for the reply. What you say seems to make sense but I am not aware of the difference between the two.

In the Left hand pane in MS FrontPage 2000 in folders view, I simply right clicked and created folders where I needed them. It was my understanding that this would work as I was creating it in the Program. Are these Web folders that I am creating?

Many thanks for your help

Fallyhag

 

[JohnYingling]

Fallyhag,
Those are folders inside a WEB folder. A Web folder withon a Web folder defines a sub-web of that Web. What is the difference? There are special folders (e.g. _private, cgi-bin yadda yadda) established when the Web folder is created. It allows different permissions to be set than the "parent" Web. In Front Page, themes and navigation apply to the whole Web Folder. I have an ISP with a Top Levlel web that has all kinds of generic stuff supplied by the ISP. I did not mess with it. I created a separate Web Folder for each distict web that I wanted to host at the same IP address. Through the magic of "Domain Forwarding", I can forward references to a "Domain Name" to a specific sub-web on my site. The

http://WWW.VBCOMPARE.COM

below is acutally at

http://64.224.26.77/VBCompare,

VBCompare being a sub-web under the top level. To create a Web Folder, you first create a folder under an existing Web (might be your top level) and after renaming it, right-clicking on the folder and selecting "Convert to Web". Enough. That is all I know and it works for me.

When in doubt, especially if I've made Navigation View changes, I always publish the entire web (not sub-webs). I publish my site from my ISP to my localhost (Personal Web Server), work on it there and publish it back.

http://WWW.VBCompare.Com

 

[Garridon]

It also may be Geocities. I was on Geocities for many years, but in February, I tried to upload my site (which is almost 200 pages), and it didn't work. Instead, I got an error message indicating the server had moved. I tried from a different way and found that the server had crashed. When I left Geocities about a month or so later, that problem had not been resolved. So you might want to try another free hosting site and see if the problem goes away.


Linda Adams (Garridon@aol.com)
"The Importance of Being Grammarian," published in The Toastmaster, March 2001

http://www.geocities.com/hallona_2000

http://www.david-hedison.com

 

[fallyhag]

I just assumed that Geocities was one of the more credible sites, is there a better one that is free?

 

[Garridon]

There are a number of them out there like

http://www.fortunecity.com

and

http://www.tripod.com.

I don't know how good they are; I suspect some of the service issues is related to everyone realizing that web advertising wasn't the big money maker they thought it would be. Your best bet is to check several out and compare.

Linda Adams (Garridon@aol.com)
"The Importance of Being Grammarian," published in The Toastmaster, March 2001

http://www.geocities.com/hallona_2000

http://www.david-hedison.com

 

[fallyhag]

I have taken your advice and moved to FortuneCity. Now apart from the huge advert banners that get in the way my publishing problem I think has gone. I have updated several times now and it seems to of worked each time.

I was that busy thinking that Microsoft had designed another Gaff program that I completely missed the basics, the server. Oh well, lesson learnt I reckon.

Many thanks for your help, have a star!

Fallyhag.com