Theme and Borders missing after Publishing Web

[Mike Doughty]

A customer has a FP web on a remote server (hosting company) with
shared borders and a theme.

I want to publish a copy of the web on my drive to make edits, then
upload the changes.

I open the remote web and publish it to my drive, but in the copy on
my local drive the theme is missing and so are the shared borders. All
I get is the main body content of all the pages on a plain white
background with no nav elements or background graphics.

I am using FP 2002 on Win XP Pro.

When you publish a FrontPage web using FrontPage, isn't it supposed to
duplicate the source web exactly on the target machine?

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA, Mike Doughty

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Yes - if the hosted site has the FP SE
Try reopening the online site in FP, running a Tools Recalculate Hyperlinks, and File Publish ALL to an existing top level folder
(say C:\wwwTheWeb)
- if prompted about components that won't work - say ok anyway, and if prompted about navigation select the replace option

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| A customer has a FP web on a remote server (hosting company) with
| shared borders and a theme.
|
| I want to publish a copy of the web on my drive to make edits, then
| upload the changes.
|
| I open the remote web and publish it to my drive, but in the copy on
| my local drive the theme is missing and so are the shared borders. All
| I get is the main body content of all the pages on a plain white
| background with no nav elements or background graphics.
|
| I am using FP 2002 on Win XP Pro.
|
| When you publish a FrontPage web using FrontPage, isn't it supposed to
| duplicate the source web exactly on the target machine?
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
| TIA, Mike Doughty

 

[Mike Doughty]

Thank you for the suggestion, Stephan.

I tried recalculating hyperlinks as you suggested. Unfortunately when
I did, it erased all the navigation and borders from the hosted site.
Now the hosted site looks just like my local copy.

I've never seen this kind of behavior in a FP site. Everytime I have
done this in the past it has reparied the site, not destroyed it.

Could this be because the hosted site was created with FP 2003? I'm
running FP 2002.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Not unless the site was using new FP2003 Dynamic web templates
- but then it probably would not have shared borders

Sounds more like the META data on the site was corrupt before you got there,
- or the FP SE on the site require repair (server health check)
Contact the host to repair the FP SE (or use Tools Server Admin if on FP2002 SE)

Have the originator Republish ALL to try to "restore" the site

Otherwise, All you can do is try to recreate the Nav View and reapply the Shared Borders and theme
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| Thank you for the suggestion, Stephan.
|
| I tried recalculating hyperlinks as you suggested. Unfortunately when
| I did, it erased all the navigation and borders from the hosted site.
| Now the hosted site looks just like my local copy.
|
| I've never seen this kind of behavior in a FP site. Everytime I have
| done this in the past it has reparied the site, not destroyed it.
|
| Could this be because the hosted site was created with FP 2003? I'm
| running FP 2002.

 

[Mike Doughty]

Thank you for your helpful comments. I will contact the originator of
the website and have him republish all, and contact the host and have
them do a health check on the FP SE.

Mike Doughty

 

[Mike Doughty]

I called the customer and he used FrontPage 2003 to make his web. That
was the reason for the problem.

I've upgraded my copy of FP 2002 to 2003 and the customer re-published
the site. It now publishes an exact copy to my local drive.

Once a web is created with FP 2003 you have to use version 2003 to
publish or make edits.

Just thought I'd pass this along in case others run into this...