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Marty
Paid a clever kid to design and publish my website and he went away to college.
Now I'm left to administer and update the website in FrontPage. Being the
cheap and thrifty dinosaur that I am I am running FrontPage 98 on an XP Home
platform.
Downloaded the entire website to my office machine, opened it in FrontPage,
and saved it on the hard drive as a FrontPage Web. DC'd on the home page in
the navigation pane and that's where my trouble started. The website is done
in frames and the sidebar frame contains flash buttons that navigate the
website.
The butons do not look anything like they do on the website, in fact they
look like they are fubar'd; however, they do look normal when you click on
the preview tab.
Seeing them look normal on the preview tab reassured me and I started
editing changes and additions to pages and was fat, dumb, and happy getting
this done.
After I was done making changes and additions and had everything saved I
closed all the website files and went to test and preview the updates before
publishing.
My updated home page looked great and I went clicking my way through the
site to check everything I had changed. On the last page I went to I clicked
on the home button and guess what, the old home page banner came up without
my changes.
After 2 to 3 days of poking around in the site's HTML and info on Microsoft
and Macromedia sites I came to the conclusion that the button sent me to the
old home page banner because the button was pointed the swf file via the
site's URL instead of being pointed at the file via the directory name (both
the sidebar.htm file and the button??.swf file are in the same directory).
At this point I realized I was going to have to edit the swf files and
realized I had crossed the threshhold from being in a little trouble to being
in deep doo-doo.
I cannot find a way to edit the information the swf files. FrontPage editor
will not load the swf files. Every time I try to load one of them I get an
error message that it's not compatible with FrontPage. What's my next step?
I need some advice.
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Marty, D.W.
Now I'm left to administer and update the website in FrontPage. Being the
cheap and thrifty dinosaur that I am I am running FrontPage 98 on an XP Home
platform.
Downloaded the entire website to my office machine, opened it in FrontPage,
and saved it on the hard drive as a FrontPage Web. DC'd on the home page in
the navigation pane and that's where my trouble started. The website is done
in frames and the sidebar frame contains flash buttons that navigate the
website.
The butons do not look anything like they do on the website, in fact they
look like they are fubar'd; however, they do look normal when you click on
the preview tab.
Seeing them look normal on the preview tab reassured me and I started
editing changes and additions to pages and was fat, dumb, and happy getting
this done.
After I was done making changes and additions and had everything saved I
closed all the website files and went to test and preview the updates before
publishing.
My updated home page looked great and I went clicking my way through the
site to check everything I had changed. On the last page I went to I clicked
on the home button and guess what, the old home page banner came up without
my changes.
After 2 to 3 days of poking around in the site's HTML and info on Microsoft
and Macromedia sites I came to the conclusion that the button sent me to the
old home page banner because the button was pointed the swf file via the
site's URL instead of being pointed at the file via the directory name (both
the sidebar.htm file and the button??.swf file are in the same directory).
At this point I realized I was going to have to edit the swf files and
realized I had crossed the threshhold from being in a little trouble to being
in deep doo-doo.
I cannot find a way to edit the information the swf files. FrontPage editor
will not load the swf files. Every time I try to load one of them I get an
error message that it's not compatible with FrontPage. What's my next step?
I need some advice.
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Marty, D.W.