All themes are suddenly gone in local web view, can't reapply

[Jonathan Vigh]

On Friday, I was working with my Frontpage webs, publishing to the remote
web, etc. and everything was fine. On Sunday (Aug 29, 2005), I open up my
local web and the theme appears to be missing or not displayed. Now there is
no navigation buttons, page banner, or background to any of the pages in my
web. I tried to reapply it by the normal method (Format -> Themes -> click on
the theme I want) -- nothing happens. If I publish to the remote web, then
the remote web no longer has themes either.

Things which might have affected it: I downloaded Office 2003 and XP patches
for Frontpage that day. My computer also experienced a forced reboot at one
point.

Things I've tried so far:
I did a 'Detect and Repair' to FrontPage and the Windows XP media content.
I did a system restore to a point last week -- no luck.
I uninstalled and reinstalled FrontPage 2003 -- no luck.
I recalculated hyperlinks -- no luck.
I published the remote web (which still had themes at that point) to the
local web -- no luck.
I verified that the theme files are actually present on my disk -- they are.
I've tried buliding a new web and applying themes -- no luck.

Does anyone have an idea of what went wrong or what I should try next? I
haven't been able to find much help in the Knowledge Base or anywhere. This
problem is very annoying since I can't really update my site until this is
fixed.

Jonathan Vigh

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Can you open you remote site in FP and apply the theme
- say on a test page for that page only?




| On Friday, I was working with my Frontpage webs, publishing to the remote
| web, etc. and everything was fine. On Sunday (Aug 29, 2005), I open up my
| local web and the theme appears to be missing or not displayed. Now there is
| no navigation buttons, page banner, or background to any of the pages in my
| web. I tried to reapply it by the normal method (Format -> Themes -> click on
| the theme I want) -- nothing happens. If I publish to the remote web, then
| the remote web no longer has themes either.
|
| Things which might have affected it: I downloaded Office 2003 and XP patches
| for Frontpage that day. My computer also experienced a forced reboot at one
| point.
|
| Things I've tried so far:
| I did a 'Detect and Repair' to FrontPage and the Windows XP media content.
| I did a system restore to a point last week -- no luck.
| I uninstalled and reinstalled FrontPage 2003 -- no luck.
| I recalculated hyperlinks -- no luck.
| I published the remote web (which still had themes at that point) to the
| local web -- no luck.
| I verified that the theme files are actually present on my disk -- they are.
| I've tried buliding a new web and applying themes -- no luck.
|
| Does anyone have an idea of what went wrong or what I should try next? I
| haven't been able to find much help in the Knowledge Base or anywhere. This
| problem is very annoying since I can't really update my site until this is
| fixed.
|
| Jonathan Vigh
|
|
|

 

[Jonathan Vigh]

Well, kind of. If apply a new theme (one that hasn't been used in that web
before), then the remote web site has the same behavior as the local web: no
page banner graphics, no navigation bar graphics, no background, etc.
However, if I switch it back to a theme that has been used in that page, then
the remote web site returns to 'normal'. So I can apply already used themes,
but not new ones.

Also, I should point out that if I try to customize a theme, the dialog box
and sample view that allows you to edit the various elements of the theme
doesn't have any of the preview graphics for that theme -- they're all the
same (no page banner, navigation buttons), just the same boring bullets and
fonts.

One other tidbit: if I right click on the theme to get the other options,
the first option for theme has a (read-only) parantheses after it. I can't
remember if the themes were read-only before, but I'm guessing it's possible
that FrontPage somehow is not accessing the themes on my local machine. The
old themes probably still work on the web site is because the themes are
still there and the links are all valid.

Here's a new test page that I made using a theme which had already been used
before on the remote web site.
http://inte099182.halls.colostate.edu/~vigh/test.htm

And here's another page in my web where I've applied a new theme to a page
on the remote site:
http://inte099182.halls.colostate.edu/~vigh/site_map.htm

This is how all of my pages look on the local web view of FrontPage.

Any help is appreciated.
Jonathan Vigh