How to Copy a Branch of Web?

[Davy]

I have a Frontpage-generated intranet on my desktop computer.
I want to be able to view, offline, one branch of the web.
Anybody any idea how I can do this?

 

[Ronx]

Davy explained :

I have a Frontpage-generated intranet on my
desktop computer.

The website is on YOUR PC.

I want to be able to view,
offline, one branch of the web. Anybody any
idea how I can do this?

If the web pages are entirely .htm or .html, with
no SSI or server side scripting then:
Open the web in FrontPage as a disc based web,
browse to the folder containing the branch you
wish to view, Click on a page and Preview in
Browser. Or do the same in Windows Explorer and
double click a page.

If there is any server side scripting (.asp,
..aspx, .shtm(l) or .php pages) then you need a
web server and offline viewing is not possible -
Expression Web has a web server built in, but
this is restricted to .htm(l), .aspx and .php
pages.

To COPY the branch, use Windows Explorer to copy
the folder to another location.

The above seems too obvious - is there something
I missed?

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
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[Davy]

Davy explained :
The website is on YOUR PC.

If the web pages are entirely .htm or .html, with
no SSI or server side scripting then:
Open the web in FrontPage as a disc based web,
browse to the folder containing the branch you
wish to view, Click on a page and Preview in
Browser. Or do the same in Windows Explorer and
double click a page.

If there is any server side scripting (.asp,
.aspx, .shtm(l) or .php pages) then you need a
web server and offline viewing is not possible -
Expression Web has a web server built in, but
this is restricted to .htm(l), .aspx and .php
pages.

To COPY the branch, use Windows Explorer to copy
the folder to another location.

The above seems too obvious - is there something
I missed?

Ronx
Whats missing is that each branch of the website is not
contained in its own folder. So the home page may have 10
pages (branches) under it and each of those 10 branches will
also have several under them. But FrontPage does not put each
of those branches in their own folders.
Davy

 

[Ronx]

Davy wrote :

Ronx
Whats missing is that each branch of the
website is not contained in its own folder. So
the home page may have 10 pages (branches)
under it and each of those 10 branches will
also have several under them. But FrontPage
does not put each of those branches in their
own folders. Davy

It is up to the web designer to build the file
structure of the site, FrontPage is just a tool.
It is easy to create a new folder and move pages
into it. So each branch can have its own folder.

--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp/wf-menu.aspx
Microsoft has closed this newsgroup on Microsoft
servers - see
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[Davy]

It is up to the web designer to build the file
structure of the site, FrontPage is just a tool.
It is easy to create a new folder and move pages
into it. So each branch can have its own folder.

I wonder how many web designers do that?

 

[Ronx]

Davy laid this down on his screen :

I wonder how many web designers do that?

Every one that I know with a site containing more
than 30 pages plus images etc. - different topics
go into different folders; for some web owners
different topics go into different websites.

As an example, the templates supplied with
Expression Web place each page into its own
folder - but this is over the top.
My own personal site (built with FrontPage and
Expression Web) has over 600 folders containing
12800 files.

--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp/wf-menu.aspx
Microsoft has closed this newsgroup on Microsoft
servers - see
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp/newsgroup-closure.aspx
for details of why and where to go next.

 

[Davy]

email.me:

Every one that I know with a site containing more
than 30 pages plus images etc. - different topics
go into different folders; for some web owners
different topics go into different websites.

As an example, the templates supplied with
Expression Web place each page into its own
folder - but this is over the top.
My own personal site (built with FrontPage and
Expression Web) has over 600 folders containing
12800 files.

Well I have 6000 pages and 4000 images so maybe I should have
thought about folders when I started.
But why do web designers put each branch in a separate
folder? Apart from ease of exporting; what is the huge
advantage; cos it must be huge because every created page
must be saved manually into the relevant folder?

And is there some way of retrospectively transferring a
branch and all of its sub-branches into a folder?

Sorry, probably too many questions. I am using FP2000
thanks
Davy

 

[Davy]

I have a Frontpage-generated intranet on my desktop computer.
I want to be able to view, offline, one branch of the web.
Anybody any idea how I can do this?

No easy answers so far. Anybody know of a add-in to a browser
that allows you to grab the page and all of its sub-pages and
their pages. I suppose the problem would be that each page is
likely to have a link pointing to its parent and so the
operation would be circular?
Davy