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tony barnhill
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Basil - you need a tag line for those sites (hosted by.....) with a link to you.
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Im in the process of 'building' a very basic website, for later hosting by er, ahem, Basil.
Can anyone point me in a direction of a free gallery type add on for Frontpage please?
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If you host here you will have available a number of cool add-ons that will literally install themselves, including a very nice Photo Gallery Add-on. To see an example of one such add-on, go to Chris's site www.spridget-tech.com and click the Guest Book link. (If you don't see it then his new IP address has not yet propagated to your neck of the woods). That guest book installed in about 1 minute.
Basil
Im in the process of 'building' a very basic website, for later hosting by er, ahem, Basil.
Can anyone point me in a direction of a free gallery type add on for Frontpage please?
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If you host here you will have available a number of cool add-ons that will literally install themselves, including a very nice Photo Gallery Add-on. To see an example of one such add-on, go to Chris's site www.spridget-tech.com and click the Guest Book link. (If you don't see it then his new IP address has not yet propagated to your neck of the woods). That guest book installed in about 1 minute.
Basil
tony barnhill
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Basil - you probably need to check to see if your server has Frontpage extensions on it - they're special & require a different setup.
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Im in the process of 'building' a very basic website, for later hosting by er, ahem, Basil.
Can anyone point me in a direction of a free gallery type add on for Frontpage please?
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If you host here you will have available a number of cool add-ons that will literally install themselves, including a very nice Photo Gallery Add-on. To see an example of one such add-on, go to Chris's site www.spridget-tech.com and click the Guest Book link. (If you don't see it then his new IP address has not yet propagated to your neck of the woods). That guest book installed in about 1 minute.
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PS: I can install Front Page Extensions, but I urge against using Front Page...yech, phooey, blech! With Front Page, you must use Front Page to publish your site, but if you host here you will have a Control Panel that will make it very easy to upload web files and there is even a built in web editor so you can make changes to your site right there on the server.
Basil
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Im in the process of 'building' a very basic website, for later hosting by er, ahem, Basil.
Can anyone point me in a direction of a free gallery type add on for Frontpage please?
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If you host here you will have available a number of cool add-ons that will literally install themselves, including a very nice Photo Gallery Add-on. To see an example of one such add-on, go to Chris's site www.spridget-tech.com and click the Guest Book link. (If you don't see it then his new IP address has not yet propagated to your neck of the woods). That guest book installed in about 1 minute.
Basil
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PS: I can install Front Page Extensions, but I urge against using Front Page...yech, phooey, blech! With Front Page, you must use Front Page to publish your site, but if you host here you will have a Control Panel that will make it very easy to upload web files and there is even a built in web editor so you can make changes to your site right there on the server.
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ChrisS website is alive and looking good.
I'll work on some more basics, having some navigation issues; work and school are doing a good job of getting in the way of fun things.
EDIT after seeing Basil's reply.
I'll move the frontpage idea to the same place as the weber conversion idea.
I'll work on some more basics, having some navigation issues; work and school are doing a good job of getting in the way of fun things.
EDIT after seeing Basil's reply.
I'll move the frontpage idea to the same place as the weber conversion idea.
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ChrisS website is alive and looking good.
I'll work on some more basics, having some navigation issues; work and school are doing a good job of getting in the way of fun things.
EDIT after seeing Basil's reply.
I'll move the frontpage idea to the same place as the weber conversion idea.
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ChrisS website is alive and looking good.
I'll work on some more basics, having some navigation issues; work and school are doing a good job of getting in the way of fun things.
EDIT after seeing Basil's reply.
I'll move the frontpage idea to the same place as the weber conversion idea.
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tony barnhill
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www.theautoist.com been FrontPage since startup in 1995 (but I use a server in Atlanta that is dedicated to FrontPage).
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With Front Page, you must use Front Page to publish your site
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Completely, 100% UNTRUE. It gives you that option, but there's absolutely no need to use it. I use an FTP interface whenever I can.
All my websites (including https://www.aerog.com, https://www.flight-group.com, and https://www.volusiabritishcars.com) are assembled with Front Page and I've never used it to publish (and never will), and don't use frontpage extensions.
I used a program called "visual page" years ago that worked great (heck, I used to code all my pages with notepad too, that got old), but when the support for the program faded I switched to frontpage. It isn't perfect, and there are certainly better editors that do more exiting things, but it's worked fine for what I do.
With Front Page, you must use Front Page to publish your site
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Completely, 100% UNTRUE. It gives you that option, but there's absolutely no need to use it. I use an FTP interface whenever I can.
All my websites (including https://www.aerog.com, https://www.flight-group.com, and https://www.volusiabritishcars.com) are assembled with Front Page and I've never used it to publish (and never will), and don't use frontpage extensions.
I used a program called "visual page" years ago that worked great (heck, I used to code all my pages with notepad too, that got old), but when the support for the program faded I switched to frontpage. It isn't perfect, and there are certainly better editors that do more exiting things, but it's worked fine for what I do.
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Can anyone point me in a direction of a free gallery type add on for Frontpage please?
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Just look around for a gallery to add to your site and don't worry about adding it to "frontpage". The gallery system Basil's new site uses can probably be added easily, as can just about any other gallery that can be added to a server.
Frontpage is first and foremost an HTML editor. If you can add a script to a wepage or html file, you can use it in frontpage. If you can make a gallery page with another program, you can add incorporate it into your site originally made with frontpage (or any other editor).
If you're doing your own private gallery with just a few images you can do it manually by setting up a table (a talked a friend of mine through setting one up on his motorcycle website https://myural.com/photo.htm )
You can also use something like ThumbsPlus, ACDsee, or Photoshop to create a gallery site from a directory of images at a keystroke, then upload them. I a customized gallery format in photoshop to make mine, like https://www.aerog.com/tvi06/
Just some alternatives to the programs and scripts at BCF, any of them work pretty well.
Can anyone point me in a direction of a free gallery type add on for Frontpage please?
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Just look around for a gallery to add to your site and don't worry about adding it to "frontpage". The gallery system Basil's new site uses can probably be added easily, as can just about any other gallery that can be added to a server.
Frontpage is first and foremost an HTML editor. If you can add a script to a wepage or html file, you can use it in frontpage. If you can make a gallery page with another program, you can add incorporate it into your site originally made with frontpage (or any other editor).
If you're doing your own private gallery with just a few images you can do it manually by setting up a table (a talked a friend of mine through setting one up on his motorcycle website https://myural.com/photo.htm )
You can also use something like ThumbsPlus, ACDsee, or Photoshop to create a gallery site from a directory of images at a keystroke, then upload them. I a customized gallery format in photoshop to make mine, like https://www.aerog.com/tvi06/
Just some alternatives to the programs and scripts at BCF, any of them work pretty well.
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I know FrontPage takes a lot of heat because it creates such "wordy" html code, and because it doesn't have great CSS strategies but I've found it to be a good tool for organizing and managing a website. It may not be the best creation tool but it works well over the long haul. I use it for our business site and for my coldplugs site & both have been up for years.
It looks like Microsoft is abandoning it, though, since isn't isn't part of the announced version of Office 2007. It's apparently being replaced by MS "SharePoint Designer" and/or MS "Expression Web", now available in a beta version.
It looks like Microsoft is abandoning it, though, since isn't isn't part of the announced version of Office 2007. It's apparently being replaced by MS "SharePoint Designer" and/or MS "Expression Web", now available in a beta version.
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When I checked out Expression Web (I think), it was really similar to frontpage. I think they're doing a revamp to eliminate some of the problems the original one had.
The only big issue I've had with FP has been trying to designate an .shtml as a "homepage" in the navigation scheme. I don't do that on my pages, but on a friend's site we worked for hours trying to force an .shtml file down FP's throat without success. It'll do .htm and .html but not .shtml. Unfortunately he's on a shared server that they won't turn server-side-include on for anything but .shtml.
The only big issue I've had with FP has been trying to designate an .shtml as a "homepage" in the navigation scheme. I don't do that on my pages, but on a friend's site we worked for hours trying to force an .shtml file down FP's throat without success. It'll do .htm and .html but not .shtml. Unfortunately he's on a shared server that they won't turn server-side-include on for anything but .shtml.
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Completely, 100% UNTRUE. It gives you that option, but there's absolutely no need to use it.
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Ok, I stand corrected. I guess I was assuming that because IF you wnat to use Front Page to publish your web site then, I'm pretty sure that Front Page extensions must be installed in our server, yes? No? At any rate, if someone uses Front Page to publish their site, I DO have the capability to install the FP extensions on a per-user basis. But if you're not already tied to publishing via FP, I'd recommend against it, but that's just personal preference. I don't really care, just use whatever you're comfortable with I guess.
Basil
Completely, 100% UNTRUE. It gives you that option, but there's absolutely no need to use it.
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Ok, I stand corrected. I guess I was assuming that because IF you wnat to use Front Page to publish your web site then, I'm pretty sure that Front Page extensions must be installed in our server, yes? No? At any rate, if someone uses Front Page to publish their site, I DO have the capability to install the FP extensions on a per-user basis. But if you're not already tied to publishing via FP, I'd recommend against it, but that's just personal preference. I don't really care, just use whatever you're comfortable with I guess.
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I think there's a way to force FP to revert to FTP transfer, I'm almost sure there is. By doing that you let FP synch your local files to the server files, but the reality is there's no reason to do that if you have a decent FTP program...or the server has a decent web-interface to upload files.
I'm not a fan of the extensions by the way. Setting up a script for what MOST people want the extensions for (web counters, etc) isn't that difficult - and they usually work better than MS's versions.
I'm not a fan of the extensions by the way. Setting up a script for what MOST people want the extensions for (web counters, etc) isn't that difficult - and they usually work better than MS's versions.