Using FrontPage 2003 and WinXP Pro, when designing asp pages, I use several include files for the navigation and other common page elements. The problem is, I can only view the completed page by loading it through my browser (IE5.0). It would be nice to see the completed page (with the contents of the include files displayed along with the regular page content) in design or preview mode of FrontPage. Is this possible? It's difficult to design a page if you can't see everything on it without going back and forth to a browser.

I often use the FrontPage include page ( include/ web component/ include
content) what it does is actually write the content at save time. you get
slightly larger pages but you can see it when editing and you don't have to
make the server do the work at run time. obviously there are places this
won't work but it's good for most "trim" such as banner, side, footer, etc.

HTH

"MaAnna" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Using FrontPage 2003 and WinXP Pro, when designing asp pages, I use
several include files for the navigation and other common page elements.
The problem is, I can only view the completed page by loading it through my
browser (IE5.0). It would be nice to see the completed page (with the
contents of the include files displayed along with the regular page content)
in design or preview mode of FrontPage. Is this possible? It's difficult
to design a page if you can't see everything on it without going back and
forth to a browser.

No version of FP has ever displayed the content of a include page that has
server-side dynamic content or is inserted using the ASP SSI include
statement.

You would have to use the FP Include component with standard HTML coded
pages, and currently FP2003 doesn't support using the FP Include Page
component to include any page with a extension of other than .htm or .html.

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"MaAnna" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Using FrontPage 2003 and WinXP Pro, when designing asp pages, I use
several include files for the navigation and other common page elements.
The problem is, I can only view the completed page by loading it through my
browser (IE5.0). It would be nice to see the completed page (with the
contents of the include files displayed along with the regular page content)
in design or preview mode of FrontPage. Is this possible? It's difficult
to design a page if you can't see everything on it without going back and
forth to a browser.