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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
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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. |
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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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