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Hello, everybody, I have been having problems recently with publishing my website (which was made using Microsft FrontPage). I have signed up for free website hosting with ozBricks. I received an email telling me that my account was now active. Here (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Curt, you mentioned that the 'homepage' file must be called index.html or index.htm. I guess my first thought would be to check and see what name you saved you file as, when working in Front Page. Second, you mentioned that you were unable to (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I did have a page saved as index.htm, but now that mention it, I don't know if it was my home page. How do you set a page to be the home page using FrontPage? (...) Well, I wasn't very clear when I said that. What I meant was that when (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish)
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Hi there, When you use Frontpage, you should upload your site into the following FTP directory: ftp://ozbricks.com/www Take note that once you do this your URL will still be (URL) may also need to be careful when naming your directory.. ie: one of (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I hadn't done that before, so tried it just a few minutes ago and it sort of worked. Only the page index.htm was accessible from the internet, and the background was gone. Also, the picture and link didn't work. If you want to look at it it's (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I can see your welcome page. And there is no background, or picture. If you look at the ham-fisted source code that Front Page has created for you, you'll notice that this is the link set to your picture: <img border="0" (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Or other pages, or links. (...) You mean is contrast with the old MS-DOS limitations of eight characters, a period, and three characters for an extension? I made sure that none of the file names or directories had spaces in the filenames, just (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) <snip> (...) OH, NO!!!!!! I just realized that changing the name of the folder involves repairing TWO-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR LINKS manually!!!! (...) Curt Tigges The guy who will probably never have a website :-) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Its a directory structure problem. Look at (URL) just have a directory (UnitedLF.WEB) between your top level directory and the directory structure for your web pages. John (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh, man, now I feel really stupid. :-) Thanks for pointing that out. (...) Curt Tigges (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I see (and hear) a lot of stuff there now. :) (...) Yes, the old eight-dot-three naming convention. :) (...) I usually do the same as well when creating web pages. (...) Was this change what allowed your background and links to load? (...) A (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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One of the features of FrontPage is that you can do a search and replace across the entire site. Most people who look down upon FrontPage have never fully utilized it. If you let it and understand it, it's a very powerful tool. Yes, it does write (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Allan Bedford wrote: <SNIP!> (...) ;) (...) everything (...) What I used, which was a TREMENDOUS help in learning html, was _Creating Websites, For Dummies_ from IDG books. In addition to lots of information and how-to's in the text, it had (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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