RE: FrontPage XP web project; losing bots/theme in publishing to web

From: Rick Budde (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:15:53 -0700

Nick:

Do you have folders on both your disk based site and
server based site that are called "_themes"
and "_overlay"? These folders and some other folders that
start with an underline are files that are created by
Front Page as a part of a Front Page web site. They
contain files which provide to theme and navigation
buttons.

When you publish from Front Page using the
preferred "http" method (see Help) these files are copied
from the disk based web to the server based web. If you
are using an FTP approach to publishing, you need to be
sure that these files are part of the publishing process.

If you want to "transfer content", you are MUCH better
off using the Front Page publish feature. You should not
perform any file actions outside of Front Page using
Windows Explorer or whatever. You will likely screw up
your site if you do.

>-----Original Message-----
>Rick-
>The intention was not to have the subweb inherit or
share theme or nav...I
>created a new theme and the site had it's own nav
schema...all of which were
>lost when publishing up to the website, and then again
lost after applying
>theme and nav live on the website and publishing back to
my local drive, but
>the theme seemed to stay intact (?).
>
>I think I followed your explanation of the blank site
influencing
>publishing. I tried publishing the working site from the
web server to the
>local disk by using Browse, creating a new folder, and
then accepting
>FrontPage creating a web in the new folder and
transferring the content. The
>result is still the same....no nav schemas but the theme
transferred OK.
>
>I am still mystefied and need a solution as I will be
doing this often.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>"Rick Budde" wrote:
>
>> Subwebs do NOT share the theme of the parent web. You
>> need to apply a theme to your subweb on your disk
based
>> web and then republish to your server based web.
>>
>> When you applied the theme on the live site and then
>> republished from your disk based site (which had no
>> theme), you published a "blank" (my term) theme to
your
>> server based web which resulted in no theme.
>>
>> I hope this makes sense and helps you out.
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Help!!
>> >I have created a web locally using FrontPage XP
(Office
>> XP SP3). The site
>> >works locally except for forms that require FrontPage
>> Extensions on a web
>> >server. When I upload the site to the web server
>> (running FP Extensions 2002)
>> >the navigation borders and nav controls are
>> missing....the theme also was
>> >lost. This site is a 'test' site which will replace
an
>> existing site at the
>> >root of the website. The root site was created using
the
>> same steps as below
>> >but it worked AOK throughout. The only difference was
I
>> was at SP1 for Office
>> >XP...I installed SP3 to see if the problem would
>> clear...
>> >
>> >Steps taken to create test site...
>> >1-Created new web project on local disk and test
>> content, theme, and
>> >navigation. (Not created as a sub-web of the original
>> root web site but in a
>> >new web project folder.)
>> >2-created a sub web below the root site using FP
admin
>> on server
>> >3-published local site to server by right clicking
>> highest order folder
>> >object in FrontPage client folder list and selecting
the
>> sub-web created by
>> >FP admin
>> >4-tested site for content, nav and theme....no
borders,
>> nav, theme. The web
>> >components on the form work fine...creates the file
in
>> _private.
>> >5-Since I needed to demo the site for others to
review,
>> I re-created the
>> >nav , borders & theme live on the sub-web and tested
>> again ...AOK. I then
>> >published the test site back to a new empty web
project
>> folder locally and
>> >experienced the same result...no borders, nav or
theme.
>> >6-Installed Office XP SP3...re-did steps...same
results
>> >
>> >Thanks!
>> >.
>> >
>>
>.
>