FP 2004 not converting FP97 correctly

[Gerry Peters]

I set up my website using Office 97 years ago and have always used my Win98
computer with Frontpage 97 for maintaining my website (changing text, etc
and uploading changes).

I'm upgrading computers in my network and retiring the old Win98 computer
and using an XP computer with Office 2004 and am having trouble getting
Frontpage 2004 to take over the tasks of updating the pages.

I think the main problem is that I originally setup my website in the root
directory and then later created 2 more websites that are accessed in
subdirectories under my domain.
http://gprecordingstudio.com
http://gprecordingstudio.com/christian
http://gprecordingstudio.com/libby

So in the root directory of my website are 2 folders: christian + libby,
that are actually separate websites called subsites.

I tried the Import wizard with Frontpage 2004 and let it go to my domain
website URL and copy the files to my XP computer. I altered one .htm page
and used "publish" to update my website with the changes.

First of all it didn't change the updated page and secondly it messed up the
links to my other subsites. For instance the link that goes from my root
directory website to the index.htm of my subsite was changed to what looked
like a local computer address. (i.e. D:\my documents\my websites). I ended
up having to go back to my Win98 computer Frontpage and update all my htm
pages to fix it.

Also I noticed that in FrontPage 2004 I can see my local website on the left
and my remote website on the right and see that the word "conflict" is
listed by some of the files. I'm not sure what all that means, but I know my
website works fine the way it is and presently I don't want to change it,
but may want to fix any conflicts, etc in the future. I do know that I have
some outdated htm pages that I never deleted from my website. These pages
are never accessed. So I'm not sure whether any of these things are
confusing Frontpage 2004.

I do have Frontpage 2000 also, but I assume I can't install Frontpage 97 or
2000 on my XP computer. If I can do that would I be better off just
installing FrontPage 97 or 2000 on my XP computer? I guess Frontpage 2004
has so many changes and improvements that it doesn't handle this conversion
very well.

The bottom line is I want my XP computer to maintain my website

 

[Chuck Davis]

Open the site on the server. Place this address as your Local site and
PUBLISH to your hard drive. You may have to (want to) set up a new folder.
You will be prompted that the new folder is not a web folder, yes you want
FrontPage to convert it. You will also be told that you don't have the
Server Extensions, choose Continue and your site will be complete on your
hard drive. Import should only be used to import documents into a folder of
documents.

 

[Andrew Murray]

There is no product called "Frontpage 2004" Do you mean Frontpage 2003?

There is no "office 2004" either. The latest version is Office 2003.

 

[Gerry Peters]

I got mixed up, yes, it's 2003

 

[Gerry Peters]

. Place this address as your Local site and
PUBLISH to your hard drive.<<

So this step is backwards from what's usual? I always thought the local site
was the HD on my home computer and the remote site was my website stored on
my Internet web host's HD.

But if I'm understanding you correctly, if I do this then in the future I
assume I would change the Local site as my HD and the remote site as my
actual website or do I keep this backwards approach and just use the Publish
commands: synchronize, Local>remote, remote>local to make updates to my
website?

I think the default Local site is My Documents/My websites, is that right?
If so how do I change the Local site to my website domain:
http://gprecordingstudio.com?

Thanks for your help,

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

With FP2003, the first site the you open to edit, is considered to be Local, and the site that you
publish to is the remote site.

So if you open your site at http://www.gprecordingstudio.com first, that would be your local site
and if you publish it to C:\My Documents\My Web\Mysite that would be the remote site.

Open C:\My Documents\My Web\Mysite first so that it is your local, then
http://www.gprecordingstudio.com would be your remote site.

In general is best to work locally and then publish, using File Menu | Publish Web and select Change
Pages only.
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