Themes dilemma

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Arska

Is there a way to import a theme from an existing website to a new FP installation?

I have a site that was once created with a theme by some prior site manager. Now the site management has become my responsibility, but I have no access to the theme (self created) that was used by the person who orininally created the site. Editing the site without the theme is pure pain in the b... so I could use some advice on how to proceed

And second small question. Is FP supposed to eat all javascript from a page when the page is taken down? This happens to me every time and I have to manually paste it back before uploading a page again.
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

If you can still open the online site in FP and publish it to your local, FP will create the theme as a custom theme for you




| Is there a way to import a theme from an existing website to a new FP installation?
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| I have a site that was once created with a theme by some prior site manager. Now the site management has become my responsibility,
but I have no access to the theme (self created) that was used by the person who orininally created the site. Editing the site
without the theme is pure pain in the b... so I could use some advice on how to proceed.
|
| And second small question. Is FP supposed to eat all javascript from a page when the page is taken down? This happens to me every
time and I have to manually paste it back before uploading a page again.
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A

arska

Thanks for your prompt reply

I tried to open the web but the FP2000 says it cannot access the site. The msg says it may be in unavailable location or is protected by a password or the filename contains a / or \. I have the necessary login & password needed to access the site for FTP transfers, but where am I going to enter these in FP when I try to open the site as you suggested

I believe the site is on a linux based apache, although I am not quite sure about that yet.

Publish web does not accept the URL either because it says the server does not have server extensions installed. If the server really is apache based, then I have no idea how the darn thing was uploaded with themes in the first place..

I can get the whole thing down with FTP but if I got it correct, it is not a good thing to mix FTPing and FP, am I right? Besides, if I do that, what happens to the theme? Can I still import it to FP somehow?
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

If you create a folder in your custom themes folder w/ the name of the theme in your web
(say: themename)
- the user custom themes folder is:
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Themes
Typically that would be found in the folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Microsoft\Themes
Then open your online site in FTP and download the contents Only of the folder:
_themes\themename
into the folder you just created, FP should recognize the theme

If you want to package that theme back into a .elm file (and delete all the "loose" pieces) see the section on granular control of
themes at http://sbrenjoy.bizland.com/frontpage/themes/newthemes.html




| Thanks for your prompt reply.
|
| I tried to open the web but the FP2000 says it cannot access the site. The msg says it may be in unavailable location or is
protected by a password or the filename contains a / or \. I have the necessary login & password needed to access the site for FTP
transfers, but where am I going to enter these in FP when I try to open the site as you suggested?
|
| I believe the site is on a linux based apache, although I am not quite sure about that yet.
|
| Publish web does not accept the URL either because it says the server does not have server extensions installed. If the server
really is apache based, then I have no idea how the darn thing was uploaded with themes in the first place..
|
| I can get the whole thing down with FTP but if I got it correct, it is not a good thing to mix FTPing and FP, am I right?
Besides, if I do that, what happens to the theme? Can I still import it to FP somehow?
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

If the site is hosted on a server that doesn't have the FP extensions, then
it not possible to retrieve the theme configuration, only the graphic that
where created.

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Arska said:
Is there a way to import a theme from an existing website to a new FP installation?

I have a site that was once created with a theme by some prior site
Click to expand...
manager. Now the site management has become my responsibility, but I have no
access to the theme (self created) that was used by the person who
orininally created the site. Editing the site without the theme is pure pain
in the b... so I could use some advice on how to proceed.
And second small question. Is FP supposed to eat all javascript from a
Click to expand...
page when the page is taken down? This happens to me every time and I have
to manually paste it back before uploading a page again.
 
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