My discussion board is messing up bad at my site: www.1stregiment.org. I
need to come up with a better discussion board. Several I have looked at
(including Broad Board) require me to FTP files to my site. I have never
used FTP and am worried that mixing FP and FTP will mess up my site? Is this
a silly worry? Can I use FP to do both, or do I need a seperate FTP agent?
Any suggestions on how to integrate a different Discussion Board into my FP
designed site would be greatly appreciated.

As I understand it, as long as your discussion board is in a separate folder
(say, discussion_board), FTPing to *that* folder will not mess up the
FrontPage extensions. There are several free FTP programs (such as
FileZilla) you can use.

"Monhegan Man" wrote:

> My discussion board is messing up bad at my site: www.1stregiment.org. I
> need to come up with a better discussion board. Several I have looked at
> (including Broad Board) require me to FTP files to my site. I have never
> used FTP and am worried that mixing FP and FTP will mess up my site? Is this
> a silly worry? Can I use FP to do both, or do I need a seperate FTP agent?
> Any suggestions on how to integrate a different Discussion Board into my FP
> designed site would be greatly appreciated.
>

FTPing to a seperate folder may corrupt the extensions for the entire
web, *unless* that folder is converted to a subweb before using FTP.
When FP opens a web, it checks all the meta files in every folder -
FTP can corrupt just meta-data file in one folder, and kill the
extensions.

To convert a folder to a subweb, right click on the folder in the
filder/file list, and choose "Convert to web" This must be done both
locally and on the live web. The host must support subwebs.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/


"Dan L" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4978DAEF-3ABC-453F-86F5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> As I understand it, as long as your discussion board is in a
separate folder
> (say, discussion_board), FTPing to *that* folder will not mess up
the
> FrontPage extensions. There are several free FTP programs (such as
> FileZilla) you can use.
>
> "Monhegan Man" wrote:
>
> > My discussion board is messing up bad at my site:
www.1stregiment.org. I
> > need to come up with a better discussion board. Several I have
looked at
> > (including Broad Board) require me to FTP files to my site. I
have never
> > used FTP and am worried that mixing FP and FTP will mess up my
site? Is this
> > a silly worry? Can I use FP to do both, or do I need a seperate
FTP agent?
> > Any suggestions on how to integrate a different Discussion Board
into my FP
> > designed site would be greatly appreciated.
> >