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What is the FrontPage Explorer?
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You use the FrontPage Explorer to create the structure or layout of your Web Site,
apply graphical themes to its pages, organize its files and folders, import and export
files, test and repair hyperlinks, administer access privileges, track tasks, and launch
the FrontPage Editor to design and edit the contents of your Web pages. When your FrontPage
Web is completed, you use the FrontPage Explorer to publish it on your computer or the
World Wide Web.
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What is the FrontPage Editor?
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You use the FrontPage Editor to create, design, and edit World Wide Web pages.
As you add text, images, tables, form fields, and other elements to your page,
the FrontPage Editor displays them as they would appear in a Web browser. Although
it is a powerful tool, the FrontPage Editor is easy to use because of its familiar,
wordprocessor interface. You do not need to learn Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
to use the FrontPage Editor because it creates all the HTML code for you.
If you want to edit HTML code directly, you can use the FrontPage Editor's HTML
view. In this view, you can enter text, edit HTML tags or script code, and use
standard word-processing commands such as cutting, pasting, finding, and replacing.
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What are the FrontPage 98 Extensions?
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A few FrontPage features require FrontPage 98 server extensions to operate.
One example is the Search FrontPage component, which allows you to add site-wide
searching to your Web site without programming. For these features to work, the
Internet server hosting the FrontPage Web site must have the FrontPage server
extensions installed.
FrontPage includes a set of programs-the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions-that
are installed on the Web server computer on which your FrontPage webs are stored.
If you installed the Microsoft Personal Web Server or Microsoft Peer Web Services,
FrontPage Setup installed the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions on your PC.
The Server Extensions support authoring and administering FrontPage webs,
along with browse-time FrontPage web functionality. For example, when an author
is editing a FrontPage web, the Server Extensions support copying or publishing it
to other Web servers, creating a table of contents for the web, adding themes and
navigational structure to it, and updating hyperlinks to any pages that have been
moved or renamed. Using the Server Extensions, an administrator can give a user,
group of users, or a specific computer permissions to edit a FrontPage web, browse
to it, or administer it. When a user browses a FrontPage web, the Server Extensions
support search forms, discussions groups, form processing (including sending form
results using e-mail), and other run-time features.
Without server extensions you will not be able to take advantage of WebBot
components. WebBot components are dynamic objects on a page that is evaluated and
executed when an author saves the page or, in some cases, when a user browses to the
page. Most WebBot components generate HTML. Many built-in FrontPage components, such
as Search Forms, Banner Ad Manager, and Save Results Form Handlers, are implemented
as WebBot components. The FrontPage Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) contains
instructions for adding custom WebBot components to the FrontPage Editor
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What do I name my files?
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The starting point for a Web site is called the home page. It is the
page that is retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits the Web site.
The default home-page name for a server depends on the server’s configuration. On
many Web servers it is index.htm.
Our servers will accept filenames of index.htm, index.html, default.htm, default.html,
or default.asp. Let FrontPage Explorer name your first page, which in this case will
be index.htm. All other pages that follow
can be named whatever you choose.
Example:
If you are creating a page on cars then you will let FrontPage Explorer generate the
name of the home page or first page for you which would be
index.htm. If the next page you generate has to do with ACME
Corporation then you might want to name the second page
acme.html. Do you see the pattern?
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How do I publish my current FrontPage web?
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To publishing your FrontPage you must:
- Close all open pages in the FrontPage Editor.
- Open up your local Website with FrontPage Explorer.
- In the FrontPage Explorer, click the
"Publish"
button on the toolbar.
The Publish FrontPage Web dialog
box is displayed. In this dialog box, specify the
Location or
URL to which you want
to publish the current FrontPage web. You need Internet access through
an Internet Service Provider before you can publish to the World Wide Web.
- In the Publish FrontPage Web dialog box,
click OK.
The FrontPage Explorer publishes the FrontPage web from your computer to
the World Wide Web server you specified.
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How do I insert a hit counter?
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To insert a FrontPage hit counter you must:
- In the FrontPage Editor, place the insertion point where you want to create
the Hit Counter.
- On the Insert menu, point to
Active Elements and then click
Hit Counter.
- In the Hit Counter Properties dialog box, in the Counter Style field, select
a counter style.
The counter style is a series of GIF images containing the digits zero through nine
- To reset the hit counter click Reset Counter To and enter the number to reset
the counter to.
- To supply a GIF image containing a customized set of the digits zero through nine,
enter the relative URL of the image in the Custom Image field. Be sure to space these
digits evenly in the custom image.
- Click OK.
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How do I get Front Page 98 Extensions?
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In order to have Front Page 98 Extensions enabled for your web site you will
need to send us a note requesting
us to turn the Front Page 98 Extensions on. In the note be sure to include
your web site address.
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Does it cost anything to enable Front Page 98 Extensions?
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There are no additional charges associated with Front Page 98 Extensions.
Because the Front Page 98 Extensions cause a slight drop in server performance we
would encourage you to request the Front Page 98 Extensions only if you plan on using
Front Page 98 to develop your site AND you are using web bots or other Front Page 98 specific
functionality. You may still use Front Page 98 to develop your site without enabling the
Extensions by using a FTP program such as WS_FTP Pro to upload changes to your site.
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What are some Front Page 98 features?
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- Active Server Pages
- ODBC and MS SQL Database connections (Access, FoxPro)
- ActiveX
- VBScript & JavaScript
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Forms Processing (using the WebBot Save Results component)
* If SSL is enabled for your account.
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Does Front Page 98 support Mailto forms?
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Yes. You must have an addition to your FrontPage 98 form that states
mailto: your email address in order
to get an information request form mail to you.
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Can I publish with Front Page 97?
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Yes, but be aware that some WebBot components may not work well or at all.
The FrontPage 97 WebBot components that require FrontPage 97 extensions do not
work well with the FrontPage 98 extensions. We do tell our customers that are
using FrontPage 97 to go and purchase FrontPage 98 because of the stability and
compatibility with our servers and to utilize the newest FrontPage components.
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NORTBOTS.HTM with disk-based webs.
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Creating a disk-based web with the run-time components, such as search and
form save result features, will not function properly until the web is published
to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. When activating
a browse-time component on a page from the disk-based web an end-user will receive
a page that says "No Run-Time Bots Available" (the page is called "nortbots.htm").
The server extensions must be installed in order for the run-time components to
function and that they are browsing against a web that does not have the server
extensions installed.
When you publish a disk-based web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server
Extensions installed this message is no longer necessary since the "Run-Time Bots"
functionality is now available. However, the links to the "nortbots.htm" page still
exist in the web pages that contain the run-time components and can result in a
"HTTP/1.0 404 Object not found" error when activating a run-time component.
This update corrects the problem by removing the links to the "nortbots.htm" page
when publishing to a FrontPage extended Web site.
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I need more information about FrontPage 98!
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If you need any more information on FrontPage or other Microsoft applications
please check out their technical support site at this URL -
Microsoft Technical Support
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