Frontpage 2003 link bars

[Rob]

Hello all,

I simply do not understand this problem.

If I put linkbars in my site, they work in preview, they work previewed in
browser (Firefox and ie) and if I upload the site using FTP, the linkbars
work fine.

However, uploading the site to a host with Frontpage extensions installed
makes the link bars either vanish or turn into plain hyperlinks. I have tried
several hosts, FTP method always works fine, FrontPage method always ruins
the link bars, and it's been a 9 hour nightmare trying to solve this today...

Thanks for any help you can give

 

[Rob]

Thought URLs might help; although these might change within next 24hours

This uploaded with FrontPage 2003 method:

http://www.st-hughlincoln.trafford.sch.uk/

This uploaded using simple FTP:

http://www.mickmcnally.co.uk/sthughtest/

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Are you publishing via http to server that has the FP2002 extensions?

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Rob]

Thanks for your response.

I am publishing via http but am not sure which version of the FP extensions
are on the server. I just recalled that the site behaves differenly on some
servers - using FTP the site always works, but publishing via http/frontpage,
the link bars either vanish completely, or work to a limited extent, as in
the following case:

http://www.mickmcnally.co.uk/sthughtest2/

In this example, it seems even odder - as the lower link bar works fine, but
the one above it just turns to plain text links...

 

[Tom Willett]

The FP Link Bar requires http publishing to a host with the FP 2002 server
extensions (none earlier).

FTP will corrupt the extensions.
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| Thanks for your response.
|
| I am publishing via http but am not sure which version of the FP
extensions
| are on the server. I just recalled that the site behaves differenly on
some
| servers - using FTP the site always works, but publishing via
http/frontpage,
| the link bars either vanish completely, or work to a limited extent, as in
| the following case:
|
| http://www.mickmcnally.co.uk/sthughtest2/
|
| In this example, it seems even odder - as the lower link bar works fine,
but
| the one above it just turns to plain text links...
|
| "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
|
| > Are you publishing via http to server that has the FP2002 extensions?
| >
| > --
| > ==============================================
| > Thomas A. Rowe
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| >
| > http://www.Ecom-Data.com
| > ==============================================
| >
| >
| > | > > Thought URLs might help; although these might change within next
24hours
| > >
| > > This uploaded with FrontPage 2003 method:
| > >
| > > http://www.st-hughlincoln.trafford.sch.uk/
| > >
| > > This uploaded using simple FTP:
| > >
| > > http://www.mickmcnally.co.uk/sthughtest/
| >
| >
| >

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Have you tried editing / re-creating the linkbar directly on the live/remote server via FP?

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Rob]

Interesting - live on the server, the link bars are there, I can edit them, I
can change them - but when I save the page and refresh the live site, they
are still not there.

Also, on the live site the insert Bar with custom links option is greyed out
in FrontPage...

 

[Rob]

Thanks Tom.

The FP link bars I put in work fine without any extensions at all! I am
aware FTP can corrupt the extensions, I have only been mixing and matching
because of this odd problem.

The person I spoke to installed the FP extensions fresh today, I have no
reason to suspect they are older than 2002 but it is something I will check,

 

[Carol S]

I have also wasted countless time trying to get in page links in a table to
work, even when I could link at the bottom of the page.

Are you on a Windows server? I changed to a Linux with FrontPage extensions
and have since had endless trouble. I have had to redo so many pages it is
worse than building a site.

I suspect that a non-Windows server may corrupt pages. I found the only
solution was to open a new web page, add the original information piece by
piece and checking each in the browser. Then I even added the original typed
hyperlinks and bingo! They worked first up, in both IE and Mozilla. I think
that it was a page problem - not a links problem. I have had similar problems
with corrupt looking graphics.

And I agree, Preview doesn't seem to reflect what actually happens.

You will spend less time & frustration working from a new page than trying
to fix things on the old.

 

[Ronx]

On the live site, remove the faulty link bar completely and start over
with it.
This should force the Afternoon theme to be uploaded to the server, and
hence the graphics will be created.

Themes for custom link bars not being uploaded is a common bug in
FrontPage.

 

[Rob]

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. I am still no nearer solving this
problem!