Where did my saved pages go?

[Guest]

I recently revised a website to use shared borders on the
top, left and bottom. The page background is dark. For
the body of the pages, each page had a 1-celled table
(fill color = white) with all the information for the
page. I saved all the pages, but when I open them now,
the table is missing on each page, and all I have are the
borders and the dark background. When I "preview in
browser", the table is present - although when I upload
the page to the internet, againt he table is missing.

What gives with this? This website has about 15 pages,
and every one of them is missing the table for the body.
I hope there's a simple solution, I will need to redo
them all over again, from scratch!

Just another little glitch in another Microsoft
product??? ... my friend sent me an appropriate
Oxymoron: "Microsoft Works"

I'd appreciate any and all help!!!

 

[Guest]

I actually had all pages open, to review what each looked
like with the shared borders before uploading them to the
site. It was only after saving, then re-opening Front
Page a day later that all the info was gone.

What do you mean by "Try posting the URL"?

 

[Wes]

He's asking you to provide the URL to your site so he can peek at it.
e.g. http:// yoursitedotwhatever.

 

[Guest]

That would probably not be beneficial, as I re-uploaded
my back-up copy of the old site. I couldn't upload the
new one, as all the info had disappeared!

 

[Rick Budde]

In order to open all your pages in Front Page, did you
first File | Open Web and then File | Open Pages?

"Try posting the URL"? = give us your web site address so
that we may observe the problems you are encountering.
You have heard the old addage that "a picture is worth a
thousand words" ... so is the web site address.

It would also be helpful to give us the method you used
to upload your site (FTP, http) and whether or not your
host provide support for the Front Page Extensions.

 

[Wes]

Sounds like you only had open pages and not an open web. When you work on a
page without a web being open, FrontPage cannot keep track.
At this point you might want to create a new website so as not to interfere
with your old one.
You can copy the content of your old pages to the new and make whatever
changes you like.
When you are done, publish the entire site.

 

[Guest]

Once I started Front Page, I merely clicked on the "open
file" icon, then chose each page individually from the
web. This is the way I've always done it.

As I was trying to figure out the problem yesterday, I
created a sample page, saved it, closed FrontPage, then
reopened it, and it was fine. Then I did set up shared
borders for that page, saved it, closed FrontPage, then
reopened it, and the page was "empty" except for the
shared borders.

Then, I created a page setting up the shared borders
first, then the body, and went through the same process
of saving, closing, etc., with the same results - the
only thing that shows when re-opening are the shared
borders.

So it seems to have something (everything?) to do with
shared borders. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong,
but cannot figure it out - nothing in the help file
addresses this.

 

[Guest]

Ok, I just did that, and edited a page. I saved it, and
closed down FrontPage. I started FrontPage again, and
again followed your instructions of opening the web
first, then the page, and once again, all that was there
were the shared borders. The table I had placed in the
body had disappeared.

When I shut down FrontPage again, and started it the way
I usually do, by clicking on the "open file" icon, then
navigating to the page I need, it automatically opens the
web, since that's where the page is... I guess I just
don't understand what opening the web first has to do
with anything. when I'm working on the page, the web is
open, according to the bar at the top of the window.

Time to look for an alternative format, and skip the
shared borders - this has taken so much of my time that
shared borders cease to be important. It's just as easy
(and less time-consuming, at this point) to simply edit
each page as needed - copy/paste in html works faster
than this!

 

[Guest]

See my earlier reply to Rob. I have never had a problem
with FrontPage "keeping track", and I've designed and
maintain many websites. In fact, one of them has shared
borders, and I've had no problem with that one. Must
have something to do with the expanding menu tree I'm
trying to put in the left border - perhaps a conflict
within the html or something.

The tree works just fine without the shared borders - in
fact, it works just fine withing the border... it's the
body of the page that is messed up! Very strange.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

DO NOT use File Menu | Open File, use File Menu | Open Web, then you can double click to open a file
in Folder List View, etc.

You need to open the web first, then you need to apply shared border to a single page and set it as
the web default, then you need to open all other page and tell them to use the web default.

Opening a file, does open the folder containing the file, but it is not the same as opening the web
first, which also open the folder.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Guest]

As I've noted, I DID try editing the page following these
directions, and the problem still occurred.

-----Original Message-----
DO NOT use File Menu | Open File, use File Menu | Open

Web, then you can double click to open a file

in Folder List View, etc.

You need to open the web first, then you need to apply

shared border to a single page and set it as

the web default, then you need to open all other page

and tell them to use the web default.

Opening a file, does open the folder containing the

file, but it is not the same as opening the web

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Are all of your web pages in a single folder, that also has the two following sub folders, _private
and images?

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

 

[Guest]

that is correct

-----Original Message-----
Are all of your web pages in a single folder, that also

has the two following sub folders, _private