web pages in front page

[laura]

I have a lot of pages in a website in frontpage, but when you go to my webs
and then open, some of the pages show an e (like for Internet Explorer) and
some have the front page blue icon. What does this mean?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

It means that some of the pages are "in" the web site, and some are just
HTML pages that you created outside the context of a web site.

A web site is not a disparate collection of files in a folder. It is an
entity which CONTAINS a collection of files and folders (as well as other
things, such as server extensions), all of which are related by virtue of
their membership in the web.

FrontPage can work with web sites, and it can work with individual web
pages. The only way FrontPage can know you're working on a page inside a web
is if you open the web first.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.

 

[laura]

Kevin, thank you for responding. How do I open the web first and should I
delete all the pages that don't have the blue fp icon?
Laura

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

No don't delete them.

If you have created a web, open it by; File | Open Web

If you haven't created a web, File | Create Web and just create an empty web. Once FP creates the web, you 'should' be able to just drag those lonely pages into the new Web.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Laura,

You open the web with the FrontPage File|Open web... command. If it's a
file-based web (sounds like yours is), you would type in the path to the
root folder. If it is a server-based web, you would type in the URL to the
root virtual directory.

Should you delete all those pages? That I can't answer. I might just as well
ask you to come into my home and tell me what furniture I should get rid of!
Only you know whether you want to keep them or not. However, you may want to
import them into your web (File|Import...). On the other hand, as image (and
other external) references are also determined by web membership, you might
be best off deleting them and starting from scratch, as it might be a little
too complicated at this point for you to fix the links.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.