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Microsoft FrontPage® - Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

How to declare a Default DOCTYPE and other defaults for your web pages (this site)

FrontPage and Email - Tips and Tricks (this site)

Stephen Travis' Miscellaneous FrontPage Macros (this site)

FrontPage Data Base Results Wizard (DBRW) Links, Tips, Tricks and Tutorials (this site)

Microsoft FrontPage Frequently Asked Questions

An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files.

When trying to import or publish a file with a size greater than 1 MB, you receive the following error:

"An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. Webmasters - please see the server's system log for more details."

Read this article for some possible causes and solutions: An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files.

FrontPage won't start or locks up my computer

Find and delete the cmdui.prf file for FrontPage - this is the file that stores your customizations and preferences for the FrontPage Menu and it will get rebuilt, using the defaults, the next time you start FrontPage.

FrontPage is running really slow; how do I speed it up?

  1. Delete the cached (and possibly corrupted) copies of your webs - Close FrontPage, and do a Find | Files and Folders | Named *.web, and delete them. Do not delete any *.web files associated with Xara, if you use any Xara products. The *.web files that you want to delete can be found in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache
  2. Delete your FrontPage Temporary Files - With FP running and your web open, Tools | Web Settings | Advanced, delete Temporary files. NB: The FrontPage 2003 temporary folder location has changed from the location that is used by earlier versions of Microsoft FrontPage.

FP2003: The Layout Tables and Cells options are unavailable (grayed out)

  1. You have View | Reveal Tags enabled - disable it.
  2. You are editing a page that uses Shared Borders. Layout Tables and Cells and Shared Borders appear to be mutually exclusive.

FP2003: Could not open file

When opening a page that has other pages included in it in FrontPage 2003, you get the following error message: Could not open file: C:\Documents and Settings/Yourname/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/FrontPageTempDir/cd9b1215.html

See: FrontPage 2003 Error Message: Could not open file

FrontPage won't remember my password

Passwords used by FrontPage are "stored" using Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, use Tools > Internet Options > Security Click on 'Trusted' and on 'Custom Level' Make sure the selection at the bottom is set to: 'Automatic logon with current username and password' and click OK Click on 'Sites' and add your site URL in the 'Add this Web Site to the Zone', and OK, OK - note: you may have to unselect the option: Require server verification (https)... to add your site.

Courtesy of Stefan B. Rusynko, FrontPage MVP

When You Click a Hyperlink in FrontPage Preview, the Hyperlink Does Not Work

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823720

[FrontPage Save Results Component] Appears Instead of Form

When you view a page that contains a form that is configured to send the form results to an e-mail address, you may receive the following message on the page rather than the form: [FrontPage Save Results Component]

Read this Microsoft Knowledge Base article for possible causes and solutions: [FrontPage Save Results Component] Appears Instead of Form  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q197605

Why don't my hover buttons work?

Mostly likely you do not have Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed. It is recommended that you do not use Java applets, such as the FP Hover Button and Banner Ad Manager applets, as many users of Windows XP, IE6, and NS6 and up may not have a JVM installed, therefore will not be able to see the applet on your page or navigate your site when using a Java navigation applet.

Error message: The folder folder name isn't accessible. The folder may be located on an unavailable volume or protected with a password.

Preview in Browser locks up my computer

Try a Detect and Repair of your FrontPage installation - you can find it in the FrontPage Help Menu.  You will need your FrontPage CD to do this.  If you can't start FrontPage, you can do a Detect and Repair this way:  Open the Windows Control Panel (Start | Settings | Control Panel) and double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon. Locate Microsoft Office 2000 (or FrontPage 2000) in the scrolling list box and click Add/Remove. This doesn't remove the program, it launches the Office 2000 Maintenance application, which allows you to repair or reinstall the program.

Why is the Security Option on the Tools menu unavailable?

This problem occurs if any of the following conditions is true:

  • You have a disk-based web open (c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\yourweb)
  • -or-
  • Your web is hosted on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98 and running Microsoft Personal Web Server version 4
  • -or-
  • The content root of the Internet Information Server (IIS) is on a FAT file system
  • -or-
  • FrontPage permissions on the server have been disabled by your host - you must contact them to do this for you.

For more information, read this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: FP2000: Security Command Is Not Available on Tools Menu http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q265468

Where is the Microsoft Script Editor in FrontPage?

Tools | Macro | Microsoft Script Editor

If you don't already have it installed; it will ask you to insert your FrontPage CD and it will install. If it's unavailable (grayed out) and can't be used, it's one of two things: 

  1. you must have a page open in the FrontPage Editor before you can run the Script Editor
  2. or, you need to read this Knowledgebase article - FP2000: The Microsoft Script Editor is Unavailable http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q229527

High-end Scripting in FrontPage 2002: The Solution for Coding Sophisticated Web Sites: the Microsoft Script Editor in FrontPage 2002  http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/HighendScriptinFP02.html

Debugging FrontPage 2002 Scripts with the Script Editor: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfp2k2/html/odc_fpDebugScripts.asp

Modifying the FrontPage Date/Time Web Component

http://blogs.msdn.com/lisawoll/archive/2004/12/17/323871.aspx

How to set up Streaming Audio in your FrontPage Web

http://www.dtiwebs.com/streaming.htm 

How do I insert a Flash movie into FrontPage?

Macromedia Flash Movie in FrontPage Web Doesn't Work As Expected http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q265033

How to submit form results to multiple files or e-mail recipients in FrontPage 2000 and in FrontPage 2002

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205756

Receiving Email from a FrontPage Discussion Web

http://www.prowebsites.net/frontpagehelp/Discussion_Email.asp

What do all those icons in my folder list mean?

The Icons of FrontPage 2000 http://www.prowebsites.net/frontpagehelp/FP2KIcons.asp#2

What are all those files and folders in my web?

Special Directories and Storage Locations - This appendix lists folders and files that are added to each root web or subweb when a SharePoint™ team Web site or a Microsoft® FrontPage-extended Web site is created - http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/sts/2001/all/proddocs/en-us/admindoc/owsk03.mspx

This appendix lists folders and files that FrontPage adds to each root web or subweb - Special FrontPage Directories and Storage Locations -  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/office/office97/reskit/fp98serk/A_SPFILE.mspx

File types and extensions

CSS Stuff

How to remove the underline in hyperlinks?

This solution will remove the underlines from all the hyperlinks on the page.

In HTML view, add the following to the head section of each page

How to customize the color of IE scroll bars?

Read this first: http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa082602a.htm.

Notes: You will also get colored scroll bars for any textareas on your page (see above). To specify different colors for the textarea scrollbars, read this article: http://www.southdakotawebdesign.com/CSSFormsPlus.shtml#anchor2.

If you follow the instructions on the About.com site and you use a valid DOCTYPE declaration (this page does), you will not get colored scroll bars in the browser window; unless you declare the style for the html tag, not the body tag. View the style sheet used on this page to see what I mean. ../styles/font2.css.

JavaScript Tutorials

JavaScript Tips:

  1. Copy the code into Notepad first, and then copy it from Notepad into FrontPage
  2. When you copy the code into FrontPage, copy it in HTML view.

Five JavaScript Tips for FrontPage Web Developers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/OfficeFrontPageTop5JavaScriptTips.asp

How to automatically refresh a page or redirect to another page?

In HTML view, add the following to the Head section:

The value given to 'content' is the number of seconds before the refresh will take place; the value given to 'URL' is the page you want your visitor sent to. You may also want to include a text link to the page in case your visitor's browser does not support the 'refresh'.

How to verify email addresses entered into your form?

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/email-check.htm

Disabling emailing form results when the enter key is pressed

JavaScript which will intercept the inadvertent ENTERs and turn them into TABs, which will take the end user to the next form field: http://javascript.internet.com/forms/tab-key-emulation.html

Disable the ENTER key for selected <inputs>: http://www.bloggingdeveloper.com/post/Disable-Form-Submit-on-Enter-Key-Press.aspx

How to disable the Image Toolbar in IE6  IE 6 Image Toolbar

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/imagebar.htm

JavaScript Back button - In HTML view, add the following:

SPAM-proof your email address This script allows you to post your email address publicly, without worrying about SPAM spider-bots grabbing your address:  http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/no-spam-e-mail.html 

Drop Down Menus - http://www.echoecho.com/tooldropdown.htm

Print Current Page - http://www.codeave.com/javascript/code.asp?u_log=7010

Random Images with Links -  a script that loads a random image with corresponding link. You can throw in as many images into rotation as you wish. http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut144.shtml

Random Image Rotator - http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/random-image-rotator.html

Add the current Date and Time to your page:

Open a New Window - http://www.echoecho.com/toolpopupgenerator.htm

Add your site to their favorites - http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/bookmark-us.html

Miscellaneous

Securing online content and images

How do I disable the right-click?

How Do I Stop People From Downloading My Graphics? From James S. Huggins' Refrigerator Door

Protect Your Code and Graphics - Or Not

This page was last reviewed on: May 07, 2008

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