Need to create a new top level (home page) but keep all my navigationworking

[Roveer]

Frontpage 2003

I've got a website that I'm trying to add a new top page. Our current
website is made up of a top page and a 10 subpages with subpages below
them. The navigation builds a menu of buttons on the left side of the
page which is very important.

My boss wants a new top page which will highlight one of our upcoming
projects. It should NOT have navigation and will have a "click here
to enter website" type button. This new top page will have pictures
and information on the new project. Once you enter the website all of
the regular navigation should still apply.

I've been having a hard time figuring out how to do this. If I add a
new top page it messes up all the navigation since it was all geared
towards the original top page.

I'm going to mess with it more today, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd
appreciate their input.

Roveer

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

1. Your site must be hosted on a server that has the FP extensions and allows you to create
subwebs/subsites.

2. Open your current site in FP, and then File Menu | Publish Site to
http://www.yourdomainname.com/content

3. Now you can clean out the root web of all content, except for the home page which will have the
content with a link to the /content folder. Do not delete the _private or images folder, just the
content within these 2 folders.

You have to do the above since you are using the FP navigation component.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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[Roveer]

1. Your site must be hosted on a server that has the FP extensions and allows you to create
subwebs/subsites.

2. Open your current site in FP, and then File Menu | Publish Site tohttp://www.yourdomainname.com/content

3. Now you can clean out the root web of all content, except for the homepage which will have the
content with a link to the /content folder. Do not delete the _private orimages folder, just the
content within these 2 folders.

You have to do the above since you are using the FP navigation component.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPagehttp://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================











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My problem seems to be getting the navigation to work. If I open the
website and go to the navigation view, then insert a new page and then
move all the sub pages below it. I then end up with what I want from
a navigation view. Basically, top page then home page below it, then
below it all on one level, 10 more sub pages

New Home Page (Index.htm)
|
Main Page (new_page_8.htm)
|
welcome, newer projects, older projects, video, testimonials etc

Problem I'm having is getting the link bar to work properly. Under
this configuration if I set it to "same level" then on all 10 sub
pages I get the proper navigation, BUT on the "Main Page" I don't get
what I want. If I get the "Main Page to work "child level", then sub
pages won't work. Seems I need to be able to apply this per page.
I'm looking at this all in FP, no publishing yet. Keep in mind, I
don't want link bars (is that we it's called?) on my "New Home Page",
just on the main page and sub pages. I'm thinking that I toggle
"include in linkbars" to turn it off for the "New Home Page"?

Need some guidance on this one.

Roveer

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

That is a limitation of using the FP navigation component, you can do what you want without create
subwebs / subsites.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================

1. Your site must be hosted on a server that has the FP extensions and allows you to create
subwebs/subsites.

2. Open your current site in FP, and then File Menu | Publish Site
tohttp://www.yourdomainname.com/content

3. Now you can clean out the root web of all content, except for the home page which will have the
content with a link to the /content folder. Do not delete the _private or images folder, just the
content within these 2 folders.

You have to do the above since you are using the FP navigation component.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPagehttp://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================











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My problem seems to be getting the navigation to work. If I open the
website and go to the navigation view, then insert a new page and then
move all the sub pages below it. I then end up with what I want from
a navigation view. Basically, top page then home page below it, then
below it all on one level, 10 more sub pages

New Home Page (Index.htm)
|
Main Page (new_page_8.htm)
|
welcome, newer projects, older projects, video, testimonials etc

Problem I'm having is getting the link bar to work properly. Under
this configuration if I set it to "same level" then on all 10 sub
pages I get the proper navigation, BUT on the "Main Page" I don't get
what I want. If I get the "Main Page to work "child level", then sub
pages won't work. Seems I need to be able to apply this per page.
I'm looking at this all in FP, no publishing yet. Keep in mind, I
don't want link bars (is that we it's called?) on my "New Home Page",
just on the main page and sub pages. I'm thinking that I toggle
"include in linkbars" to turn it off for the "New Home Page"?

Need some guidance on this one.

Roveer

 

[Roveer]

That is a limitation of using the FP navigation component, you can do what you want  without create
subwebs / subsites.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPagehttp://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================










My problem seems to be getting the navigation to work.  If I open the
website and go to the navigation view, then insert a new page and then
move all the sub pages below it.  I then end up with what I want from
a navigation view.  Basically, top page then home page below it, then
below it all on one level, 10 more sub pages

                   New Home Page (Index.htm)
                                     |
                   Main Page (new_page_8.htm)
                                     |
welcome, newer projects, older projects, video, testimonials etc

Problem I'm having is getting the link bar to work properly.  Under
this configuration if I set it to "same level" then on all 10 sub
pages I get the proper navigation, BUT on the "Main Page" I don't get
what I want.  If I get the "Main Page to work "child level", then sub
pages won't work.  Seems I need to be able to apply this per page.
I'm looking at this all in FP, no publishing yet.  Keep in mind, I
don't want link bars (is that we it's called?) on my "New Home Page",
just on the main page and sub pages.  I'm thinking that I toggle
"include in linkbars" to turn it off for the "New Home Page"?

Need some guidance on this one.

Roveer- Hide quoted text -

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I messed around with one of the wizard created web sites in FP2003 It
creates the navigation buttons just like my site has. The thing that
is different is that each page that contains the navigation buttons
can be set to create it's navigation differently "child, parent,
global" etc so that pages on the same level can be set as "same level"
and higher pages can be set as "child" to create the proper navigation
menu's. My pages all seem to have the same setting. If I change it
on one page, it changes on ALL pages unlike the sample web I created
where they can all be changed individually. If I remove it on one
page, it is deleted from all pages. Seems like I'm using some sort of
style sheet or something similar? Since I didn't create this web and
don't know a huge amount about FP2003 (other than extensivly editing
the pages to remove hover buttons), where should I be looking to
seperate these pages so I can set navigation differently based on
where the page is located on my web? I'm getting closer, but still
need some help.

Roveer

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You can not have more then a single home page in a web.

To do what you want, you need to have the following structure

home page - root web - with link to the subweb / subsite folder containing the original web site
content.

Using a subweb / subsite allows you to maintain your existing FP navigation structure separately
from the content in the root web or other subwebs / subsites. Standard folder do not.
--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================

That is a limitation of using the FP navigation component, you can do what you want without create
subwebs / subsites.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPagehttp://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================










My problem seems to be getting the navigation to work. If I open the
website and go to the navigation view, then insert a new page and then
move all the sub pages below it. I then end up with what I want from
a navigation view. Basically, top page then home page below it, then
below it all on one level, 10 more sub pages

New Home Page (Index.htm)
|
Main Page (new_page_8.htm)
|
welcome, newer projects, older projects, video, testimonials etc

Problem I'm having is getting the link bar to work properly. Under
this configuration if I set it to "same level" then on all 10 sub
pages I get the proper navigation, BUT on the "Main Page" I don't get
what I want. If I get the "Main Page to work "child level", then sub
pages won't work. Seems I need to be able to apply this per page.
I'm looking at this all in FP, no publishing yet. Keep in mind, I
don't want link bars (is that we it's called?) on my "New Home Page",
just on the main page and sub pages. I'm thinking that I toggle
"include in linkbars" to turn it off for the "New Home Page"?

Need some guidance on this one.

Roveer- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I messed around with one of the wizard created web sites in FP2003 It
creates the navigation buttons just like my site has. The thing that
is different is that each page that contains the navigation buttons
can be set to create it's navigation differently "child, parent,
global" etc so that pages on the same level can be set as "same level"
and higher pages can be set as "child" to create the proper navigation
menu's. My pages all seem to have the same setting. If I change it
on one page, it changes on ALL pages unlike the sample web I created
where they can all be changed individually. If I remove it on one
page, it is deleted from all pages. Seems like I'm using some sort of
style sheet or something similar? Since I didn't create this web and
don't know a huge amount about FP2003 (other than extensivly editing
the pages to remove hover buttons), where should I be looking to
seperate these pages so I can set navigation differently based on
where the page is located on my web? I'm getting closer, but still
need some help.

Roveer

 

[Teriel9]

An alternative is to create your new page with the "Click to enter", rename
it to "index.htm " rename your existing "Index.htm" page to "Welcome.htm"
and make your "Click to enter" a hyperlink to "Welcome.htm"
to see it in action go to http://www,rna-carmarthen.org.uk
HTH
Teriel9

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Will not work correctly, when using the FP Navigation component.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================

 

[Teriel9]

Sorry, link was wrong
try
http://www.rna-carmarthen.org.uk
Teriel9