Frontpage trouble

Twendy · #1 September 24th, 2002, 05:21 AM

Hi all

My friend has a prob at the moment with frontpage 2000. It is the trial version.

the ftp uploader on it is greyed out so she has been trying to upload the files to her site with smartftp. Everything seems to load fine and the first page shows but not the rest. The links are pointing to 'c\documentsewebfile' where she had save her website to on her hardrive. Ok she went into change the links so they correspond with the right url of her web addy. The prob is frontpage won't let her edit the changes and keeps returning the url to point to c\documents.

Any ideas as to how to fix this would be greatly recieved. I viewed the source and saved it in notepad and made the changes but the page is not showing when uploaded.

thanks

*waves at Dave incase he's lurking

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lufbra · #2 September 24th, 2002, 05:46 AM

:glug:

Hi Twendy, yup, I'm lurking!!!

Dave.

JustJay · #3 September 24th, 2002, 04:56 PM

When you say "ftp uploader" I assume you mean that when you try to navigate to <<FILE>> <<Publish Web>> you are running into problems.

If that is the case then what it sounds like is that your friend has NOT created a diskbased web. When using FrontPage (regardeless of working live on the server, or plan on using HTTP or FTP to transfer files) you need to CREATE A WEB. The easiest way to do this (if you are not using templates) is <<FILE>> <NEW> <Blank Web>. This will then add a few folders to the structure and then you should be sailing in no time....

Give that a whirl and let us know if it works....

Steven.Bentley · #4 September 24th, 2002, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Twendy
The links are pointing to 'c\documentsewebfile' where she had save her website to on her hardrive.

Frontpage has a habit of doing this

Luckily you only have the trial version so you've not lost any money by trashing it and using something decent :cheesy:

JustJay · #5 September 24th, 2002, 09:13 PM

9.9/10 the reason FP has this habit is because it is not being USED the way it was intended. Lets keep in mind that FP was built on the OFFICE platform to offer people that were familiar with MS Software the opportunity to dive into a new medium but have a few familiarities. Dreamweaver does a few things that I am not fond of, come to think of it....there isn't a single peice of software I have that I am 100% satisfied with.

**degsy** · #6 September 24th, 2002, 09:22 PM

The trouble with FP is not the "Ease of Use", it is the code that is produced.

oracle128 · #7 September 25th, 2002, 10:38 AM

Looks like none of you guys wanna answer the question, so without further ado...

Edit the html files with notepad. I know it might be hard to understand for a beginner, but an easy way might be to open it up, use notepad to Find c\documentsewebfile and change that to the location of your files on the web. Remember to use relative links (eg. href=page.html, img src=images/image.jpg) rather than absolute links (eg. href=www.geocities.com/twendy/page.html). This is so that if you decide to move your site to another host, you wont need to change the links.

Twendy · #8 September 25th, 2002, 12:48 PM

thanks all shall let you know how this goes....

*waves to the lurker*