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October 3, 2003

Learning FrontPage®, subtitled Trials and Tribulations
Much has occurred since Devan talked me into learning FrontPage®.
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Installation: Devan had brought a licensed copy of FP2002 over, but it refused to install in Microsoft® Windows® Millennium Edition. It installed beautifully on an old laptop running Windows 98, but that PC didn't have a working modem, so I threw up (my hands). Actually, I did fool around with it. My friend Ann also had to install it on a PC with Windows 98. Interesting.

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Tutorials: OK, I rushed over to Circuit City and bought a real one-owner copy of FP. When I finally took it out of the trunk of the car after tons of procrastination, I installed it and downloaded the MS tutorial. Boo. I really got spoiled when my favorite NetObjects Fusion started putting out tutorials that really taught. What a concept.

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Book: On to the Barnes and Nobel Web site. Ordered a Sam's book. They're usually quite good, and this one is, too. Problem was that they sent it to my grandson across the country, so my son had to UPS it to me.

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Web Host: After mousing  around a looong time, I finally found that Angelfire more or less supports the quirks of FP, as long as you have a relatively new version. So far, so good. I hate to shell out money for a practice site.
Apparently you can use Geocities, too. There's a upload tutorial for that here.

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Publishing: Should be a piece of cake, except that Angelfire likes using file extensions of ".HTML" rather than the default of ".HTM" that FP sticks willy-nilly on a saved file. Yes, you can Save As, but it states its opinion on that option.

Of course, I don't know all the ins and outs of FP. After all, it took me forever to learn that an anchor in HTML is a bookmark in FP. Simple things like changing the color of table borders are an awesome challenge. I think that's because I've despaired of hitting F1 and not finding what I want to do, so I just trudge on.

Since this is a homemade BLOG, you can e-mail me a comment by clicking here. I'll take out the cuss words, just to keep this a family site, but I'm dying to hear from you.

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October 6, 2003

Large success!
Everything in FP worked yesterday — because I didn't use it.

Feedback page: However, I did play with it the other day, making a Feedback page. Went fine except that it doesn't work yet. Think it's a Microsoft e-mail thing (FrontPage Server Extensions), and I did download what it told me to. The extensions are enabled in the Tools, Page Options, Compatibility window. Also configured Trusted Sites in I.E.'s Trusted Sites under Internet Options.

So now I have a new error message, this time after publishing.

413 Request Entity Too Large
Request Entity Too Large The requested resource/blog/marlise/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit.

Have deleted the Feedback page after spending lots of time trying to find the Server Extensions Resource Kit for FP 2002, even though I don't really know if I need it or not. Aaargh.

Table of Contents page:  Didn't work the first time. Deleted it in a fit of pique.

Search page:  This is what I'm doing now. Finally works after a couple of publishes and a couple of resets.

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