how to make "web" from web pages

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Huck

I have a website with many pages in it, but FrontPage doesn't treat it as a
"web". How can I get FrontPage to see it as a web?

thanks for any help,

Huck
 
by "web" to you mean with the ability to test out features that require the
FrontPage Extensions? If so, publish it to a web host or, if you're working
on it locally you would need to be running Windows XP pro with IIS installed
(Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components) and then publish
your web to http://lcoalhost/webname (this is your local web server).
 
It sounds like you're working with individual pages, not within a Frontpage
Web.

1) You should first have created a new folder, then opened the folder in FP,
which then coverts that folder to a web folder - that web folder is your
"web" for the purpose of how Frontpage works with it.

2) In Windows Explorer, create a New Folder, and name it as whatever the
name of your web is, e.g. "Fried Green Tomatoes"; then in Frontpage go to
File > Open > Web and browse to the folder, "Fried Green Tomatoes" select it
and click "Open".

3) Frontpage should then add its files and other elements and convert it to
a 'web folder' (indicated by the blue earth/globe folder icon).

4) Then you can add new pages, import images and so on. Once done, save the
pages, close them, and then close the web.

5) Each time you start Frontpage from then on remember to open the web
"Fried Green Tomatoes" first, then the page(s) you want to work on.

If the above does not help you solve your problem please elaborate on what
you mean "get Frontpage to see it as a web".
 
Andrew,

thank you for the answer. I tried your instructions but still had a
problem. Here is what happens. I have a folder called "My Webs". In it
are several "web folders" with the blue earth/globe folder icon. These are
what I mean by FrontPage recognizing it as a web. There is also another
folder in which I have a bunch of web pages, linked together in a web site
(which is functioning on the internet). I did as you said and went to
File>Open>Web and selected that folder, selected that folder. However, it
did not change the folder to a "web folder" with blue earth/globe icon. And
when I close FrontPage and start it again, and try to open a web, it doesn't
see that one as a web.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Huck
 
Andrew,

I just noticed another thing. The "My Webs" folder, in which I have my
various webs, has the blue earth/globe icon. So evidently FrontPage thinks
it is a web. It is not, it is just a folder with a bunch of webs in it.
Could that be causing the problem? And if so, what can I do about it? e.g.
How can I tell FrontPage that the folder "My Webs" is not a web?

Thanks,

Huck
 
How can I tell FrontPage that the folder "My Webs" is not a web?

You can't, because the folder *is* a web, containing several subwebs
that are your websites.
If your mystery folder is a folder in "my webs", then open "My Webs" in
FrontPage, right click on the mystery folder and choose "convert to
web".
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