Front Page 2003 - Navigation Links Missing upon Import

[sidsarahpip]

Hello
I support a website along with another person - I do minimal work, basically
calendar updates. I recently imported the entire website into a new folder
to insure that I had the most up to date version. When doing so, the left
hang navigation links for the site will not come over, what I see on my
computer is an area where the links should be and the wording which states to
past the navigation links. The links/navigation do come over on the
Home/Index page - but that is it. Is this connected to the changes being
done to Front Page with the need to upgrade? The person who maintains the
other pieces of the site has stated that they have done nothing to change it,
however they recently made a change to the Index/Home page and I'm wondering
if that caused an issue. I have limited knowledge of Front Page since I do
very specific updates only. Thank You. Am wondering if I am doing the
import incorrectly - although I am doing the same process that I have always
done.

 

[Steve Easton]

Don't import the site, "Publish" it to a location on your machine.
Open FrontPage, open the site, click File > Publish and publish it to your machine.


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[IdaSpode]

To be honest, I'm not certain of the differences between importing a
web and publishing one from the server to local PC, but that's what I
would try if you want to work on the web while it's on your PC.

Open FP > File > Open Site (web) > type in the URL of the site
http://www.thesite.com > you should be prompted for a username and
password. Once the site is open, go to File > Publish > point it to
the folder where you want it to live on your PC > Publish. (If this
folder is a new, empty folder, FP will tell you it must add info to
make it a FP Web, allow it to do so.)

File > Close Site >

File > Open Site > browse to the new web on your PC > Open.

Do your update thing, then publish back to the server, select "changed
pages only" in the Publish Options.

Or, just work on the site "live". Open the site on the server, do your
update, save the page(s). You might want to publish back down to your
PC to keep a current copy.

DJ

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When you import, you only get the content that is viewable in a browser.

The actual shared borders, includes page, database files or the meta data (navigation structure,
etc.) associated with the web will not be available in the imported copy. They will all have to be
recreated.

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[IdaSpode]

Thanks, that's about what I was thinking.

DJ

 

[sidsarahpip]

Thank you - to ensure I don't screw this up (which is highly possible) - is
there anything specific as part of the Publish process I should worry about.
Publishing from the web to my machine leaves the actual website untouched and
altered, correct? Since I want to start fresh on my machine, I would be
publishing to a new/blank folder on my machine, is that okay?
p.baker

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Note: The live/remote site must have the FP extensions installed in order to be able to open in FP
and then use the Publishing function.

The live/remote site will remain unchanged and you would enter the publishing destination as:

c:\mywebsite


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Thomas A. Rowe
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[sidsarahpip]

Thanks, if there a way that I can verify that the live/remote site has the FP
extensions installed?
p.baker

 

[Ronx]

Two methods:
1) Open the site in FrontPage using an address similar to
http://www.example.com (replace www.example.com with your domain name)

2) Look for http://www.example.com/_vti_inf.html (again, replace
www.example.com with your domain name). This file contains (view
source) the FrontPage extensions version. If the file does not exist,
there are (usually) no extensions.

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