Front Page 2000 Stops responding

[FW]

FrontPage 2000 stops responding when I work on one of my
web pages that contains a large spreadsheet converted to
HTML. The tables contain a hyperlink in the cell at the
beginning of each line. I have filtered out the extra
Excel code. The page is a lean as I can make it but
evidently it is too large for FrontPage 2000 to handle.

It is not too large to load quickly with a browser when
viewed online though. The whole file size is 454kb. When
it stops responding it feels like it is running out of
RAM. [I am running Windows 98 SE, 384 RAM, plenty of room
on the hard drive, all updates applied to Windows. Not
sure if udpates applied to FP 2000] Shutting down running
programs or rebooting does not help. The HTML on the page
is pretty ordinary except for the large table grid that is
the converted spreadsheet. I searched google for help.
Found some similar issues with FP 2003 using different
languages, but I am not using anything similar to the
cause of that problem.

 

[Steve Easton]

I would suspect that you've got some corrupt html in the page, especially if
you tried to edit a converted Excel page using the FrontPage editor.
Corrupt html will cause the browser to "stall" as it can't parse out all of
the errors. Also, the TCP Receive Window ( a memory "buffer" controlled by
a registry setting ) is 64kb ( unless manually tweaked ) and if the browser
can't parse the errors, the buffer won't "flush" and display the rest of the
page.

I would recommend editing the Excel spread sheet and then saving the edited
version to a new html file and then leaving it alone.

That said, 454kb is *huge* for a html page and I don't see how it is
possible for it to load quickly.
Maybe in preview in Browser mode, but not via a DSL modem and definitely not
over a dial up connection.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[Firewire]

Hummmmm I am on a dial up and work online with my spreadsheet pages all the
time. Also my business clients access my pages and download and print them.
It takes a minute or so to totally load however it does load. The smaller
table and image at the tip of the page loads first, followed by the full
spreadsheet. So nothing hangs online. .I agree it isn't the best way to do
things but is how I have to do it.

I have been checking out the code. It certainly could be that. I have a
number of pages with spreadsheets and not all of them are a problem.
However I have a problem locally where multiple frontpg are listed in my
close program window. Front Page doesn't want to totally close down when I
close the main windows. I have to manually close them all before I can open
Front Page again. However, I frequently work with several Front Page
windows open with different web pages in them. Do you know of a work around
to flush the display with it hangs?

 

[Steve Easton]

As for flushing the buffer to make the page load, not that I know of except
Refresh which will just restart the process.
As for the multiple instances of FrontPage in Program manager, about the
only thing I know that will cause that is opening pages in a browser window
and then selecting File > Edit with FrontPage.
FrontPage allows multiple instances to be run, like Notepad for example.


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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[Firewire]

The problem seems to be that Front Page doesn't close all the way and stays
open in the running programs list. When I have to manually close it with
the close program End Task, I have already closed all the open Front Pages
that are open. These are the local windows open on my computer with no
browser open, just front page client.

 

[Steve Easton]

That is a new one on me.
Have you tried the standard clean up procedures??
With FrontPage closed do a search for files named *.web and delete all
found. Then search for *.tmp and delete all found.
Then clear your browser History and Cache files.
Then reopen FrontPage. ( This may also clear up the page loading problem )

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
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[Firewire]

Clean up helps Windows operate better of course, but it didn't solve the
Front Page stop responding issue. I can work on the Normal view in Front
Page, add, edit or delete. If I move too much it will slow or pause.
However, going into HTML view to hand edit causes it to stop responding. If
I go back to Normal, or Preview or if I try to save the edited page it stops
responding. Even if I don't change anything in HTML, saving causes it to
hang. A ctrl-alt-del in the close program window shows Microsoft Front Page
[not responding]. Sometimes if I give it enough time it will eventually
recover. But when I try to go back to Normal from the HTML view it hangs
again.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

FP has a limit of ~ 32K lines of html code and w/ a file size of 454kb you may be hitting it
Try splitting the page up into multiple pages

IMHO - most users won't "suffer" thru loading and browsing a page that big
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| Clean up helps Windows operate better of course, but it didn't solve the
| Front Page stop responding issue. I can work on the Normal view in Front
| Page, add, edit or delete. If I move too much it will slow or pause.
| However, going into HTML view to hand edit causes it to stop responding. If
| I go back to Normal, or Preview or if I try to save the edited page it stops
| responding. Even if I don't change anything in HTML, saving causes it to
| hang. A ctrl-alt-del in the close program window shows Microsoft Front Page
| [not responding]. Sometimes if I give it enough time it will eventually
| recover. But when I try to go back to Normal from the HTML view it hangs
| again.
|
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| --
| Firewire
| | > That is a new one on me.
| > Have you tried the standard clean up procedures??
| > With FrontPage closed do a search for files named *.web and delete all
| > found. Then search for *.tmp and delete all found.
| > Then clear your browser History and Cache files.
| > Then reopen FrontPage. ( This may also clear up the page loading problem )
| >
| > --
| > Steve Easton
| > Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| > 95isalive
| > This site is best viewed..................
| > ..............................with a computer
|
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