FRONTPAGE:

Enabling FrontPage

Before you can upload using frontpage you must first:

1. wait for your site to be live on our servers, you cannot upload using an IP number it must be www.yourdomain.com as the host
2. Enable frontpage in the web panel, to do this click Frontpage Extensions then click the install extensions button

Uploading with FrontPage

FrontPage Forms will not work

The most common cause for this to happen is that when you first created your web site with FrontPage, it was a disk based web. A disk based web is a web site you created with FrontPage on your hard drive and it does not utilize the personal web server installed by FrontPage. When you do this, FrontPage adds pieces of Java script to your forms so when you preview them they work correctly. When you publish over to a web server that has the FrontPage extensions installed it does not remove these pieces of code so you receive errors.

To correct this problem, open your web site on our server with FrontPage and edit the HTML. The piece of code you want to remove looks like this:

form method="POST" action="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/feedback.htm" onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;" webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--"

Find this line in the HTML of your form and remove the bold section, and then save your form. This will correct the problem with the forms not working.

Broken Web Bots - my form, counter, nav bars don't work

Some times after publishing your site, certain FrontPage features (forms, counters, navigation bars, etc.) will fail to work and can cause the server to time out during the publishing process. These features are called FrontPage web bots. To fix a broken web bot, open your web directly on the server as follows:

1. From the menu in FrontPage Explorer, select File->Open Front Page Web...
2. Click on the "More Webs..." button
3. Enter your domain name as the "Web server or disk location" and click on the "List Webs" button
4. Double click on the web you are working on (Normally, your default web is called "".)
5. You may be prompted for your user id and password at this point. Enter the same user id and password you use when publishing your site.
6. You can now edit your site just as you do when it is on your local hard drive. Open the page with the broken web bot(s). If you are not sure which web bot has failed (whether they be forms, counters, etc.) and is causing the time out error, you may need to do this for every page that has a web bot.
7. Remove the components from your web page directly on the server and re-add them just as if you were working on a web that was on your local hard drive.

   Important: While it is possible to edit your whole site directly on the server, we highly recommend that you always keep a copy of your site on your local hard drive. FrontPage web sites frequently get corrupted and sometimes our only remedy is to delete your whole site in order for you to re-establish communications with the FrontPage extensions. For this reason, we highly advise that you always edit your site on your local hard drive and publish a copy of your site to the server. The only exception to this rule is when you need to fix a broken web bot as explained above.

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