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| What is the
FrontPage Explorer? |
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You use the FrontPage Explorer (called folder
list on new editions) to create the structure or
layout of your Web site, apply graphical themes to its pages, organize its files and
folders, import and export files, test and repair hyperlinks, administer access
privileges, track tasks, and launch the FrontPage Editor to design and edit the contents
of your Web pages. When your FrontPage web is completed, you use the FrontPage Explorer to
publish it on your computer or the World Wide Web.
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| What is the FrontPage
Editor? |
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You use the FrontPage Editor to create, design, and edit
World Wide Web pages. As you add text, images, tables, form fields, and other elements to
your page, the FrontPage Editor displays them as they would appear in a Web browser.
Although it is a powerful tool, the FrontPage Editor is easy to use because of its
familiar, wordprocessor interface. You do not need to learn Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) to use the FrontPage Editor because it creates all the HTML code for you.
If you want to edit HTML code directly, you can use
the FrontPage Editor's HTML view. In this view, you can enter text, edit HTML tags or
script code, and use standard word-processing commands such as cutting, pasting, finding,
and replacing.
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| What are the FrontPage
server extensions? |
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A few FrontPage features require FrontPage server
extensions to operate. One example is the Search FrontPage component, which allows you to
add site-wide searching to your Web site without programming. For these features to work,
the Internet server hosting the FrontPage Web site must have the FrontPage server
extensions installed.
FrontPage includes a set of
programs-the FrontPage Server Extensions-that are installed on the Web server computer on
which your FrontPage webs are stored. If you installed the Microsoft Personal Web Server
or Microsoft Peer Web Services, FrontPage Setup installed the FrontPage
Server
Extensions on your PC.
The Server Extensions support authoring and administering FrontPage
webs, along with browse-time FrontPage web functionality. For example, when an author is
editing a FrontPage web, the Server Extensions support copying or publishing it to other
Web servers, creating a table of contents for the web, adding themes and navigational
structure to it, and updating hyperlinks to any pages that have been moved or renamed.
Using the Server Extensions, an administrator can give a user, group of users, or a
specific computer permissions to edit a FrontPage web, browse to it, or administer it.
When a user browses a FrontPage web, the Server Extensions support search forms,
discussions groups, form processing (including sending form results using e-mail), and
other run-time features.
* * Every
Client on NT Server is setup with FrontPage Extensions * *
Without server extensions you will not be able to take
advantage of WebBot components. WebBot components are dynamic objects on a page that
is evaluated and executed when an author saves the page or, in some cases, when a user
browses to the page. Most WebBot components generate HTML. Many built-in FrontPage
components, such as Search Forms, Banner Ad Manager, and Save Results Form Handlers, are
implemented as WebBot components. The FrontPage Software Developer’s Kit (SDK)
contains instructions for adding custom WebBot components to the FrontPage Editor.
The starting point for a Web site is called the home page.
It is the page that is retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits the Web site.
The default home-page name for a server depends on the server’s configuration. On
many Web servers it is Default.htm. Let FrontPage Explorer name your first page, which in this case will
be Default.htm. All other pages that follow can be named whatever
you choose.
Example:
If you are creating a page on cars then you will let FrontPage Explorer
generate the name of the home page or first page for you which would be Default.htm. If the next page you generate
has to do with Ford Motors then you might want to name the second page fordmotor.htm. Do
you see the pattern?
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| How do I publish my Current FrontPage Web? |
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To publishing your FrontPage you must:
- Close all open pages in the FrontPage Editor.
- Open up your local Website with FrontPage Explorer.
In the FrontPage Explorer, click the "
Publish
" button on the toolbar.
The Publish FrontPage Web dialog box is displayed. In
this dialog box, specify the Location or URL to which
you want
to publish the current FrontPage web.You need Internet
access through an Internet Service Provider before you can publish to the World Wide Web.
In the Publish FrontPage Web dialog
box, click OK.
The FrontPage Explorer publishes the FrontPage web from your computer to the World
Wide Web server you specified.
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| How Do I insert a hit
counter? |
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To insert a FrontPage hit counter you must:
- In the FrontPage Editor, place the insertion point where you
want to create the Hit Counter.
- On the Insert
menu, point to Active Elements and then
click Hit Counter.
- In the Hit Counter Properties dialog box, in the Counter Style
field, select a counter style.
The counter style is a series of GIF images
containing the digits zero through nine
- To reset the hit counter click Reset Counter To and enter the
number to reset the counter to.
- To supply a GIF image containing a customized set of the
digits zero through nine, enter the relative URL of the image in the Custom Image field.
Be sure to space these digits evenly in the custom image.
- Click OK.
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| How do I get FrontPage
Extensions? |
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FrontPage Extensions are on all NT web servers by default.
If you use the personal web server to test your site at home before you publish the
extensions are part of the install.
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| Are there any extra fees
for the installation of FrontPage extensions? |
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There is no extra charge for the installation of FrontPage
extensions.
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| What are some FrontPage
Features? |
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Since FrontPage was created for developing web-sites in the
Windows environment, some features are only available when the site is hosted on an NT
Server.
- Active Server Pages
- ODBC and MS SQL Database connections (Access, FoxPro)
- ActiveX
- VBScript
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Forms Processing (using the WebBot
Save Results component)
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| Does FrontPage support
Mailto forms? |
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Yes. You must have an addition to your FrontPage form that
states mailto: put_in_your_email_address_here in order to get an information
request form mail to you.
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| Why do I have a Permissions
Problem? |
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Our Customers are not allowed to change permissions on NT
FrontPage extensions, if you need to restrict access to the site please contact us.
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| Can other people access my
site if I resell space to them? |
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NO. You are allowed to let/admit additional people to publish
to your site under your username and password. Resale of space is not allowed.
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| Can I publish with
FrontPage 97? |
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Yes, but be aware that some WebBot components may not work
well or at all. The FrontPage 97 WebBot components that require FrontPage 97 extensions do
not work well with the FrontPage 98+ extensions. We do tell our customers that are
using FrontPage 97 to go and purchase FrontPage 2002 because of the stability and
compatibility with our servers and to utilize the newest FrontPage components.
2002(XP) is a far
better product.
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| NORTBOTS.HTM with
Disk-based Webs |
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Creating a disk-based web with the run-time components, such
as search and form save result features, will not function properly until the web is
published to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. When
activating a browse-time component on a page from the disk-based web an end-user will
receive a page that says "No Run-Time Bots Available" (the page is called
"nortbots.htm"). The server extensions must be installed in order for the
run-time components to function and that they are browsing against a web that does not
have the server extensions installed.
When you publish a disk-based web to a web server that has
the FrontPage Server Extensions installed this message is no longer necessary since the
"Run-Time Bots" functionality is now available. However, the links to the
"nortbots.htm" page still exist in the web pages that contain the run-time
components and can result in a "HTTP/1.0 404 Object not found" error when
activating a run-time component.
This update corrects the problem by removing the links to the
"nortbots.htm" page when publishing to a FrontPage extended Web site.
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| Do you need more on
FrontPage? |
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If you need any more information on FrontPage or other
Microsoft applications please check out their technical support site at this URL - Microsoft Technical Support
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