At 08/08/2001 06:35 PM -0400, you wrote:
>A friend created my web using Front Page and it was not on my computer. I
>needed to download it from the internet and used WSFTP to do that. I worked
>on it and reloaded it to the web with WSFTP. Now when I try to publish
>with Front Page I get a message that the web has been moved.
>
>Does using WSFTP alter my ability to use Front Page? My counters and one
>of my animations are not showing up after I load it with WSFTP.
Martha -- As the administrator of a largely FrontPage-based web site, I can
really sympathize with your problems. I can also tell you that using
**anything** other than FrontPage to upload to a FrontPage site is likely
to cause problems, especially for any special effect (borders, counters,
mouseovers, etc.) that was created using FrontPage. The problem is that
uploading via FrontPage does a lot more than simply adding or
replacing. It also does quite a lot of record-keeping in the background,
and may store some files and settings in places that are physically outside
your web folders.
The message about the web having been moved is an indication that the
FrontPage records for this web have been damaged (probably by the FTP
upload). Fixing this will require the assistance of the administrator of
the site that hosts your web, who should be able to use the FrontPage
Server Extensions to repair the damaged records. Luckily, this is not a
difficult or time-consuming task, so I would expect any reasonably
user-friendly site manager to be happy to do it for you.
We do have some web authors on our site who prefer to use FTP, rather than
FrontPage. We have found that the only way to make this work is to keep
their subsections of the site in a separate physical location, and warn
them to ***never*** add anything to their pages that does not utilize
standard HTML 3.0 or 4.0 tags.
>Which way is better (or easier for a novice) WSFTP or Front Page?
As far as the actual process of uploading is concerned, there's not a lot
to choose between FrontPage and WS_FTP. Both are reasonably easy to learn,
and only require that you know the URL to which you wish to upload, plus
(probably) a user ID and password. If you are using FrontPage to created
and update your pages, I would suggest that you try using it for uploading
as well. If you are using some other product for editing pages, the choice
is yours - - - but in that case any special effects that were originally
created using FrontPage's built in tools (identified by HTML tags that
begin with the text "<!--webbot bot=") should be replaced with JavaScript,
standard HTML 3.0 or 4.0 constructs, or something else that does not rely
on FrontPage's special features to make it work.
Please feel free to email me directly if you have additional questions.
Melissa
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