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Dennis P. Harris
AAARGH! Prototyped a web site for the boss on my Windows 2000
machine at home using Frontpage 2000. Everything worked fine,
including the shared menus (navigation bars). Uploaded to the
site, it worked OK, he liked it, said it was a great start but
needed more content and more pages.
Since I need to work on it at the office during the workday, I
burned a copy of the entire Web to a CD, along with the
customized theme file, and installed in the "My Webs" directory
created when I installed Frontpage 2000 in my WinXP machine at
the office.
The shared menus all went to hell. Deleted shared menus from all
the pages, removed all the pages from the Navigation view,
unlinked all style sheets, changed to "No theme". Saved
everything, exited, deleted CMDUi.prf file, and started over.
Added shared menus back in and it looked OK in "Normal" view ---
used graphic buttons from my custom theme, etc. But...
Even when I save the page, recalc links, and publish it, the top
banner displays OK, but there is NO MENU.
I reopened the page file on my local machine, and MENUS HAVE
DISAPPEARED. So I went back to only index.htm in the Navigation
view, recalculated links, added one child page, and set up the
menus first on index.htm, saved it, looked at the source in my
favorite text editor. The Javascript code for the menu buttons
was there. Opened the child page, set up menu buttons there by
right clicking and editing nav bar properties, saved, it, checked
the code in text editor, nav bar Javascript was there. Re-opened
index.htm AND THE NAV BAR JAVASCRIPT HAD DISAPPEARED. I had
never re-opened the index.htm file after saving it, so how could
it have been changed, and why?
This is driving me nuts! I have spent 2 days googling Google
Groups Usenet archives, googled various FrontPage support sites
for "FrontPage menus/navigation bars/shared menus" and have not
been able to find out why in the hell this is happening. It
can't be a file or directory rights issue on my local hard drive
because I have administrator equivalent rights to the whole
machine.
In the meantime, my boss is getting annoyed that I can't get a
simple 10 page web site up and running. I'm in an small town in
Alaska, and can't just go to a big box computer store and buy a
copy of Dreamweaver instead, or I probably would have already
done so.
Is there some kind of incompatibility between XP & Frontpage
2000? Would an upgrade to FP 2003 fix it? Any ideas on what is
causing this? AAAGH!
A pox on whichever idiot at Micro$oft designed this non-standard
kludge of a website editor!
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If this was Linux, we'd be there by now!
machine at home using Frontpage 2000. Everything worked fine,
including the shared menus (navigation bars). Uploaded to the
site, it worked OK, he liked it, said it was a great start but
needed more content and more pages.
Since I need to work on it at the office during the workday, I
burned a copy of the entire Web to a CD, along with the
customized theme file, and installed in the "My Webs" directory
created when I installed Frontpage 2000 in my WinXP machine at
the office.
The shared menus all went to hell. Deleted shared menus from all
the pages, removed all the pages from the Navigation view,
unlinked all style sheets, changed to "No theme". Saved
everything, exited, deleted CMDUi.prf file, and started over.
Added shared menus back in and it looked OK in "Normal" view ---
used graphic buttons from my custom theme, etc. But...
Even when I save the page, recalc links, and publish it, the top
banner displays OK, but there is NO MENU.
I reopened the page file on my local machine, and MENUS HAVE
DISAPPEARED. So I went back to only index.htm in the Navigation
view, recalculated links, added one child page, and set up the
menus first on index.htm, saved it, looked at the source in my
favorite text editor. The Javascript code for the menu buttons
was there. Opened the child page, set up menu buttons there by
right clicking and editing nav bar properties, saved, it, checked
the code in text editor, nav bar Javascript was there. Re-opened
index.htm AND THE NAV BAR JAVASCRIPT HAD DISAPPEARED. I had
never re-opened the index.htm file after saving it, so how could
it have been changed, and why?
This is driving me nuts! I have spent 2 days googling Google
Groups Usenet archives, googled various FrontPage support sites
for "FrontPage menus/navigation bars/shared menus" and have not
been able to find out why in the hell this is happening. It
can't be a file or directory rights issue on my local hard drive
because I have administrator equivalent rights to the whole
machine.
In the meantime, my boss is getting annoyed that I can't get a
simple 10 page web site up and running. I'm in an small town in
Alaska, and can't just go to a big box computer store and buy a
copy of Dreamweaver instead, or I probably would have already
done so.
Is there some kind of incompatibility between XP & Frontpage
2000? Would an upgrade to FP 2003 fix it? Any ideas on what is
causing this? AAAGH!
A pox on whichever idiot at Micro$oft designed this non-standard
kludge of a website editor!
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If this was Linux, we'd be there by now!