Publishing

[Guest]

I successfully published my FrontPage 2002 Website to Comcast the first time except for two problems. 1) Pictures I imported to one page do not show up on the published site. They show up in FrontPage in Browser view but don't show up on the published site. 2). I can't seem to link a pdf file to a page while in FrontPage. I "insert hyperlink" just like everything else but this does not work for a pdf file for some reason. My major problem is that after editing my pages in FrontPage, I go to republish to Comcast and all indications are it went through, but when I go to the site, press "refresh", the changes are not there. I feel it's something simple I'm missing but can't for the life of me figure it out. Comast tech cannot help me.

I've also tried clearing the cache of all offline content. That doesn't work either. HELP!!!!!

 

[Steve Easton]

Can you post a URL to your site??


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I successfully published my FrontPage 2002 Website to Comcast the first

time except for two problems. 1) Pictures I imported to one page do not
show up on the published site. They show up in FrontPage in Browser view
but don't show up on the published site. 2). I can't seem to link a pdf
file to a page while in FrontPage. I "insert hyperlink" just like
everything else but this does not work for a pdf file for some reason. My
major problem is that after editing my pages in FrontPage, I go to republish
to Comcast and all indications are it went through, but when I go to the
site, press "refresh", the changes are not there. I feel it's something
simple I'm missing but can't for the life of me figure it out. Comast tech
cannot help me.

I've also tried clearing the cache of all offline content. That doesn't

work either. HELP!!!!!

 

[Kevin Spencer]

The most common cause of these sorts of problems occurs because of opening
and working on pages in a web site without opening the web site in FrontPage
first. FrontPage is capable of working with web sites (disk-based and
server-based) and individual web pages that are not in web sites. The only
way it knows what it's working with is if you open a web site first. If you
open one of the pages in the web site in FrontPage without opening the web
site first, it has no way of knowing that you're not just working on a local
HTML document, and it puts (for example) image links which point to your
Hard Drive, etc. You don't import images into a page; you import them into a
web. Then you can insert them into the pages correctly. The same goes for
files that you attempt to link to. If you don't import a PDF file into a web
site first, FrontPage has no way of knowing that it is there. You should
never work with files and folders in a web site without using FrontPage to
open them, and without opening the web site first (to give FrontPage the web
site context it needs).

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

I successfully published my FrontPage 2002 Website to Comcast the first

time except for two problems. 1) Pictures I imported to one page do not
show up on the published site. They show up in FrontPage in Browser view
but don't show up on the published site. 2). I can't seem to link a pdf
file to a page while in FrontPage. I "insert hyperlink" just like
everything else but this does not work for a pdf file for some reason. My
major problem is that after editing my pages in FrontPage, I go to republish
to Comcast and all indications are it went through, but when I go to the
site, press "refresh", the changes are not there. I feel it's something
simple I'm missing but can't for the life of me figure it out. Comast tech
cannot help me.

I've also tried clearing the cache of all offline content. That doesn't

work either. HELP!!!!!

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I successfully published my FrontPage 2002 Website to
Comcast the first time except for two problems.
1) Pictures I imported to one page do not show up on the
published site. They show up in FrontPage in Browser
view but don't show up on the published site.

Check the URLs for these pictures and make sure they lie
within your Web site. If not, copy the pictures into your
site and then make the links point to those copies.

Experienced designers always add pictures the Web site
first, and then add them from the Web site to the Web page.

2). I can't seem to link a pdf file to a page while in
FrontPage. I "insert hyperlink" just like everything
else but this does not work for a pdf file for some
reason. My major problem is that after editing my
pages in FrontPage, I go to republish to Comcast and all
indications are it went through, but when I go to the
site, press "refresh", the changes are not there. I feel
it's something simple I'm missing but can't for the life
of me figure it out. Comast tech cannot help me.

Again, first add the pdf file to your Web site, and then
add that copy to your page.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
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