Yes Merging would have done this - the merging is what blew away your navs.
Re-Publish from local machine to your online server. In Publish Options set it to overwrite (I forget the exact wording of the choices..they're slightly obtuse anyway.)
Phone? I'm a phonophobe...sorry :-(
| Rob,
|
| I did check the website on my local machine. All looks fine. I previewed in
| the browser, again all looks fine. I did the recalculate links thing. No
| better. Open the site live, did the recalculate links thing, still no better.
|
| The wierd thing is...if I open the site live, when I try to modify the pics
| and links that are messed up, Frontpage wants pull the pages and pictures
| from folders on my local pc, instead of the folders on the web server. If I
| redo the pics and links and tell FrontPage to pull the data from the website
| folders on the host's server, then the new links and pictures look fine.
|
| Would the merging have caused this? The bad problem is, is that I can only
| make the changes to the site in FrontPage while live! Unless you have other
| suggestions. Is there some navigation file on the host server that I could
| blow away that would be re-written when I publish? Everytime I try to publish
| my new site, it never asks me again about merging or not, it just starts
| uploading the pages to the server.
|
| It's about 2:10pm EST where I'm at. I won't be back until about 10:30pm EST
| tonight. I'll check back then for other suggestions you might have. I don't
| know how htese chats are usually done, but this sure would be a whole lot
| easier if we could just talk on the phone. If that's possible, I'd be more
| than happy to give you a toll free number to reach me.
|
| Thanks for your help, and Ronx's help so far...I'm hoping I can fix this
| without having to redo the site again!
|
|
|
| "Rob Giordano (aka: Crash Gordon®)" wrote:
|
| > Just open your Web on your local machine, check all the page navigation...do they look correct? Then File | Preview in Browser...do they work (this is only on you machine). If they do...then your local copy is good. It shouldn't have changed unless you Published from your server down to C://xxxx
| >
| > Then Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks (this only fixes local copy links)
| >
| > Then: File | Publish Web
http://xxx
| > First try a Publish the way you normally do.
| > If prompted for the Merge thing...DONT...let it overwrite destination navigation.
| >
| > When done, view your online web, see if that fixes it.
| >
| > If not...
| > Close your local copy and open your site live.
| > File | Open Web then enter http:// (not your C://)
| > Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks
| > this may take a while
| > Close Web
| > Check it with your browser
| >
| > If still doesnt work...come back...I need coffee right now
| >
| > Rob
| >
| >
| > | Rob,
| > |
| > | How can I tell if my local copy is correct? I know it was before I
| > | published. Could it have been changed during the publish process? You mention
| > | about publishing using the "http://" method. How do I do that? The only way I
| > | know to publish is through the Publish Web option in FrontPage. Also...you
| > | mentioned about Recalculating Hyperlinks...how do I do that?
| > |
| > | Thanks for getting back to me so soon, any help you can give is greatly
| > | appreciated!!!
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | "Rob Giordano (aka: Crash Gordon®)" wrote:
| > |
| > | > Don't click Merge. If the Navigation was correct on your local machine the correct choice would have been to Replace.
| > | >
| > | > If your Local copy is correct, hopefully it is, just Re-Publish it via http:// method. I'd do a full Publish overwriting the destination files if you can.
| > | >
| > | > I did Merge once...never again !
| > | >
| > | > hth
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > | I have an exisiting website for my retail business that was created using
| > | > | Frontpage 2002. Over the past month I created a new website on my local
| > | > | machine. When I went to publish it to my host's server the first time, it
| > | > | asked me the following:
| > | > |
| > | > | [] Do not replace the navigational structure of the Destination Web
| > | > |
| > | > | [] Replace the Navigational Structure of the destination web
| > | > |
| > | > | [] Let FrontPage merge the changes
| > | > |
| > | > | Because I wasn't sure what to do, I chose to let Frontpage merge the
| > | > | changes. Probably my first mistake. I don't know anything about navigational
| > | > | structure. I just create pages, and hyperlinks..ya know? Anyway, when my new
| > | > | page was finished publishing, I viewed it using IE6. My pages are all messed
| > | > | up! Some of my links are gone, some of my pictures too which were used for
| > | > | hyperlinks.
| > | > |
| > | > | How can I fix this? I published my old site back to the host's server for
| > | > | now until this is adressed. Can I undo what I did by the choice I made? Did
| > | > | this navigational thing affect the website files stored on my local pc when I
| > | > | published?
| > | > |
| > | > | I've spent alot of time creating this new site, and would like to restore
| > | > | the functionality it had when I was creating it. Somebody please help me
| > | > | asap!!!
| > | > |
| > | > | Thank you
| > | >
| >
