Front page remote Sync

A

Angels Gate

Hi,
I've inherited a badly behaving FrontPage 2002 website. It is a small
site for an animal rescue organization (www.angelsgate.org). Darn ugly
site, but we will get to the style elements as soon as I have everything
working. I am by no stretch of the imagination a web developer and have
no experience with front page. I'm having a number of problems syncing
the local (hard-drive) copy of the site with the remote site. For the
time being the remote site is in better shape so I would like to get
that perfect and then try and work out the synch problems.
My current problem is that the entire site seems to have lost it's
them (ugly as it is). I was going through each page, applying a them,
and then saving. When I tried to apply the them to all pages at once,
some of the pages did not take the them, but more importantly , change
the hyper link to point at the hard drive instead of the remote site. I
have fixed the hyper link manually but I was wondering why it sometimes
decides to point to the local copy. Is there a way I can stop the
remote web site to stop pointing at the local drive for hyperlinks?


thanks and any advice would be most warmly appreciated.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

1. Make sure that you always open the locate copy using File Menu | Open Web / Site.

2. Make sure all content that is being using in the web / site is either created or imported in to
the current open web / site via FP.

3. When you apply a theme make sure that you have the theme set as the web / site default theme.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

also...if the remote site is the best of the two;
Open FP
File | Open Site
enter the remote site's url; http://www.angelsgate.org you'll get prompted
for un/pw - now you're actually opening the site "live" on the server.
Now
File | Publish Site
here you enter a location and name of your site on your local harddrive (the
name can be anything...like C:\\My Documents\My Websites\damnuglysite (no
extension)
This will bring down the entire site to your local machine.
Close Site

From then on you work with the local site and then Publish to the live
server (which will be the remote - usually).

hth


--

Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





|
|
| Hi,
| I've inherited a badly behaving FrontPage 2002 website. It is a small
| site for an animal rescue organization (www.angelsgate.org). Darn ugly
| site, but we will get to the style elements as soon as I have everything
| working. I am by no stretch of the imagination a web developer and have
| no experience with front page. I'm having a number of problems syncing
| the local (hard-drive) copy of the site with the remote site. For the
| time being the remote site is in better shape so I would like to get
| that perfect and then try and work out the synch problems.
| My current problem is that the entire site seems to have lost it's
| them (ugly as it is). I was going through each page, applying a them,
| and then saving. When I tried to apply the them to all pages at once,
| some of the pages did not take the them, but more importantly , change
| the hyper link to point at the hard drive instead of the remote site. I
| have fixed the hyper link manually but I was wondering why it sometimes
| decides to point to the local copy. Is there a way I can stop the
| remote web site to stop pointing at the local drive for hyperlinks?
|
|
| thanks and any advice would be most warmly appreciated.
 
R

Ronx

In addition to Thomas' and Rob's comments, if you have applied a theme
to an individual page, applying a theme to another page and making this
the default will not affect that individual page - this is deemed to
have a non-default theme.

On every page look for a tag similar to <meta name="Microsoft Theme"
content="themeName 1011">
This example is for a non-default theme, a page with the default theme
will have
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="themeName 1011 default"> (or
similar) (The numbers in both cases may be different.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
 
A

Angels Gate

1. Make sure that you always open the locate copy using File Menu | Open Web / Site.

2. Make sure all content that is being using in the web / site is either created or imported in to
the current open web / site via FP.

3. When you apply a theme make sure that you have the theme set as the web / site default theme.
Click to expand...
Just to make sure I am getting this right;
Point number 1 says open the local site with Open Web / Site. This
really looks like it is opening the remote site not the local site.
Then it shows the network location dialog which shows a link to the
remote web site. I presume I should just click through to where I save
the local copy on my hard drive?
thanks
 
A

Angels Gate

We are wining
OK, it looks like the web page is functioning. To get it to sync I fixed
the remote site. When it was perfect, I published to a brand new web on the
local hard disk. To confirm that is worked, I made a small change on the
local web and successfully published. It worked, but...................
While doing the local to remote update I received a dialog saying the
navigation structures of the 2 sites were out of sync. My choices were to
not overwrite the remote site, overwrite the remote site, or let FrontPage
merge the changes. To be safe I decided to not allow the the local site to
update the remote site.
My question is why would there have been difference in the navigation
structure if I only changed the text in one page and added no hyperlinks.
If it was a brand new copy should the navigation structure not been the
same? What would happen if I let FrontPage merge the changes?
thanks
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

In the future, always select to let FP overwrite the navigation structure on the destination server,
never select to let FP merge the navigation structure.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================
 
A

Angels Gate

Hi,
I've inherited a badly behaving FrontPage 2002 website. It is a small
site for an animal rescue organization (www.angelsgate.org). Darn ugly
site, but we will get to the style elements as soon as I have everything
working. I am by no stretch of the imagination a web developer and have
no experience with front page. I'm having a number of problems syncing
the local (hard-drive) copy of the site with the remote site. For the
time being the remote site is in better shape so I would like to get
that perfect and then try and work out the synch problems.
My current problem is that the entire site seems to have lost it's
them (ugly as it is). I was going through each page, applying a them,
and then saving. When I tried to apply the them to all pages at once,
some of the pages did not take the them, but more importantly , change
the hyper link to point at the hard drive instead of the remote site. I
have fixed the hyper link manually but I was wondering why it sometimes
decides to point to the local copy. Is there a way I can stop the
remote web site to stop pointing at the local drive for hyperlinks?


thanks and any advice would be most warmly appreciated.
Click to expand...
Yay! We are winning!
I synced back to the hard drive by createing a new web and copying
everything over.

However, to test, I made a simple change and published the local to the
remote. FrontPage declared:

FrontPage has determined that that the cahnges you have made to the
navigations structure conflict with the changes another author has made
to the web you are publishing to What do you want to do?

Do not replace the structure on the destination
Replace on the destination
let frontpage merge

I selected the do not replace option and the publish , with the change
went fine. But why am I getting this choice? Since I just made a brand
new copy from the remote the navigation structure should be the same.
What if I did want to make a navigation change? Should I trust
FrontPage to make the navigation changes? I kind of think this may have
caused some of the original issues. Why are the navigation structures
different
thanks
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

You have to first never copy, always publish... second always select the overwrite option when given
a choice to overwrite the navigation on the destination server.
--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================
 

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