Re: Help needed resolving problems with links and .jpg buttons.

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If you use FTP then you don't have FrontPage extensions on the server - the entire site will have to be published every time you change banner.htm.

For the FTP error -
Open the website and click the remote Web site tab
In Publishing properties:
Select FTP
Ensure the Remote web site location and FTP directory are correct
Toggle the Use Passive FTP checkbox - if it's clear, tick it. If it's ticked, clear it.
Click OK

Try publishing.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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"Chris Mitchell" <chris.a.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OfEvhitNKHA.4028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Ronx.

I think I do open the site in FP. I fire up FP and the last of the 2 sites I maintain is ready to edit. If I want to work on the other one I go File > Open and navigate to it. Is this what you mean by opening the site in FP?

How can I tell if FP extensions are available on the server?

I'll have a look at banner.htm with your comments in mind.

I used to publish by ftp from within FP 2003 SP 3, and didn't have these problems but now I
get:

425 Could not open data connection to port XXXXX: Connection timed out

Which doesn't mean much to me.

However I can publish via My Network Places which I've set up in Windows
Explorer using the same Remote Web Sites Properties!

I've checked firewall and set FP to Allow.

Any suggestions as to how I can restore being able to ftp from within FP
would be appreciated.

Thanks again Chris.


"Ronx" <ronx917@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uK7MrnqNKHA.3412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Any change in banner.htm will be reflected in all pages with the include webbot automatically, provided you open the website in FrontPage before editing anything within FrontPage.
If the server is running FrontPage extensions, then publishing just banner.htm will update all the relevant pages (those containing the webbot) on the server, if the server does not have FrontPage extensions, then every page must be published.

A better method (if FP extensions are not available) is to use server-side includes, but this may involve changing the extensions on all your pages with subsequent problems for users with bookmarked pages, search engines, etc.

banner.htm itself has a problem - names used in anchor tags must be unique. You have used <a name="Top" ... in several places - almost every link, in fact.

Remove the name attribute entirely from all the links, and delete <a name="Top"> that immediately follows the <body> tag.

Then change
<table border="0" width="676" height="105">
to
<table id="Top" border="0" width="676">

The id will work in all modern browsers (and IE6, but not IE5.5 and earlier) for links to a bookmark. Table heights should be avoided since:
1) The height attribute for a table is not valid HTML
2) Some browsers will ignore the height attribute entirely
3) Some browsers will strictly apply the height attribute, and cut off any content that would stretch the table downwards - such as when the user changes the text size, or you add more content than can be accommodated with the set height.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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"Chris Mitchell" <chris.a.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O2#eZPqNKHA.5072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Please see http://sussexcrafts.com/ where since adding the .jpg buttons to the banner I've been having some difficulties with getting the links beneath the buttons to work. Previously when I only had words for the links it worked fine for a couple of years, it's only since I added the buttons that the problem has arisen.



I think I may have resolved the problem by editing and republishing each and every page that includes the banner, which is included in each page by means of a webbot as follows:



<!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="banner.htm" TAG="BODY" -->



This appears to mean me, and I may be mistaken, that each page that has this webbot in effect contains a copy of the banner, and if I change the banner I have to edit each page to get the new version of the banner included in each page. Is this correct?



If so how can I amend the code/site such that the banner is automatically included, such that I can edit and amend the banner and not subsequently have to manually edit each page that needs the banner to get the new version included?



Is there a better way to do this?



TIA.



Chris.




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