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Microsoft FrontPage (TM)
Release Notes, Version 1.1 Beta 3
Copyright 1996 Microsoft Corporation.
Welcome to FrontPage(TM), Release 1.1, Beta 3 version for Windows 95
and Windows NT. This document delivers important information about this
FrontPage release.
[Contents]
-PC Configuration Recommendations
-Installing FrontPage
-Uninstalling FrontPage
-FrontPage TCP/IP Test Utility
-What's New in This Release
-Additional Tips and Known Problems
-Troubleshooting
-Microsoft Answer Point
[PC Configuration Recommendations]
Systems should have 16MB or more of physical memory. FrontPage
requires at least 20MB of free space on your hard disk.
For Windows NT, we recommend 24 MB of physical memory.
FrontPage requires that you have a Winsock-compliant TCP/IP stack
installed and properly configured in your Windows environment.
Windows 95 and Windows NT come with TCP/IP already built-in. If
you can access the Internet or your company's internal network with a web
browser, your TCP/IP stack is probably already configured correctly.
If you are not connected to the Internet or to your company's intranet,
FrontPage will guide you to install enough of Windows 95 or Windows
NT networking so that FrontPage can work even without connecting to a
network.
[Installing FrontPage]
This section describes the system requirements of
Microsoft(r) FrontPage(tm) and guides you through FrontPage
installation using the installation program setup.exe.
-[Installation: System Requirements]
You can install FrontPage on a PC running Windows 95 or
Windows NT (version 3.51 or higher).
-[Installation: Contents]
FrontPage comes in three major parts:
- The FrontPage Client is the set of FrontPage tools that you use
to create and modify webs and web pages: the FrontPage Explorer,
the FrontPage Editor, the To Do List, and the FrontPage Wizards.
- The Personal Web Server is a 32-bit web server that runs on your PC.
It fully supports the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Common
Gateway Interface (CGI) standards.
- The FrontPage Server Extensions are FrontPage programs and scripts
that support the client tools and extend the functionality of the
Personal Web Server at runtime.
The following utility programs come with FrontPage:
- FrontPage TCP/IP Test verifies that your machine has TCP/IP support
correctly configured.
- The FrontPage Server Administrator helps install, update, uninstall,
and check webs for use with FrontPage. You can also use the FrontPage
Server Administrator to change an administrator password.
-[Installation: Installing the Software]
FrontPage 1.1 Beta 3 is delivered as a single self-extracting ZIP
file: fp11b3.exe. It is also delivered as four smaller self-extracting ZIP
files: fp11b3_1.exe, fp11b3_2.exe, fp11b3_3.exe, and fp11b3_4.exe.
FrontPage can be installed in two ways:
- The typical installation installs the major FrontPage components
and FrontPage utilities. It is the fastest, easiest way to install
or upgrade FrontPage. See Typical Installation, below, for instructions
on a typical FrontPage installation.
- The custom installation installs or upgrades any subset of the
three major FrontPage components. For example, you can install only
the FrontPage client tools and develop your webs using a server on
a different machine, or you can install only the FrontPage Personal Web
Server and FrontPage Server Extensions and use your PC as a server.
See Custom Installation, below, for instructions on doing a custom
FrontPage installation.
-[Installation: Before You Start]
Save all current work and exit out of any applications before running
the FrontPage setup program.
-[Installation: Typical Installation]
Follow these instructions to do a typical FrontPage installation.
(1) Create an empty directory and download fp11b3.exe
into it. Alternatively, download fp11b3_1.exe, fp11b3_2.exe,
fp11b3_3.exe, and fp11b3_4.exe.
(2) Run fp11b3.exe (or fp11b3_1.exe, fp11b3_2.exe, fp11b3_3.exe,
and fp11b3_4.exe) from the Windows 95 Start menu or in Windows
NT, from the File menu. A set of files are extracted into the directory
that you created, including the setup program, setup.exe.
(3) If you have Windows 95, choose Run from the Start menu to run
setup.exe from the directory you created; for Windows NT, choose
Run from the File menu.
The setup program prompts you to close all other applications and save
any data on which you are currently working. This is necessary because
in some cases the setup program must restart your system after installing
FrontPage.
(4) Choose Next.
The Destination Path panel specifies where FrontPage will be installed.
On a PC running Windows 95, all FrontPage components are installed by
default in the \Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage folder on your
C: drive. On a PC running Windows NT, all FrontPage components
are installed by default in the \Microsoft FrontPage folder on your
C: drive.
(5) To change the destination directory or drive, choose the Browse
button. (You cannot do this if you are installing over an existing version
of FrontPage.)
The Choose Directory dialog box opens.
The Path field displays the destination directory. In the Directories field,
select a new folder by browsing your file system. In the Drives field, select
a drive from the list of available drives. To connect a new drive, choose
Network. Choose OK to accept your selection. If you enter a new folder
in the Path field, the setup program will create it.
(6) To accept the destination directory, choose Next.
The Setup Type panel lets you choose the type of installation: Typical
or Custom.
(7) Choose Typical, then choose Next.
(8) The setup program installs the Personal Web Server. One of the
following two panels appears:
- Choose Personal Web Server Directory panel
This indicates that you are either installing the Personal Web Server
for the first time or reinstalling over the same version of the Personal
Web Server.
If setup does not detect a Personal Web Server on your machine, it
will install it by default in the folder \FrontPage Webs. The Personal
Web Server is installed in \FrontPage Webs\Server and the content folder
is installed in \FrontPage Webs\Content. To install to a different folder,
choose Browse and specify the folder in the Choose Directory dialog box.
If setup detects the current version of the Personal Web Server already
installed on your machine, the Personal Web Server is installed over the
existing version. The Browse button is not displayed, because you cannot
change the installation directory. The existing content folder (the folder
in which webs are stored by the server) will be preserved.
Choose Next and go to Step 9.
- Personal Web Server panel
This panel appears if setup detects a previous version of the Personal
Web Server already installed on your machine. This panel displays
two choices:
-- Upgrade
This option installs the new Personal Web Server over the previously
installed version.
The Personal Web Server will be installed in the folder \FrontPage Server.
If the current Personal Web Server is not in that folder, it will be moved
there before it is upgraded. The existing content folder (the folder in
which webs are stored by the server) will be preserved.
After choosing Upgrade, choose Next and go to Step 9.
-- Install
This option installs a new Personal Web Server in a separate directory
from the previously installed Personal Web Server.
Setup installs a copy of the Personal Web Server in a separate folder
and creates a separate content folder for the new Personal Web Server.
The original Personal Web Server and its content folder are preserved.
After choosing Upgrade, the Choose Personal Web Server Directory
panel appears. The new Personal Web Server is installed by default
in \FrontPage Webs\Server and the new content folder is installed
in \FrontPage Webs\Content. To install to a different folder, choose
Browse and select the folder in the Choose Directory dialog
box. After selecting the folder or accepting the default, choose Next.
When you install a second Personal Web Server, the original Personal
Web Server continues to be configured to use TCP/IP port 80
and the new Personal Web Server is assigned TCP/IP port 8080.
The setup program displays this information.
Choose Next and go to Step 9.
(9) Use the Select Program Folder panel to select a program folder from
the list in the Existing Folders field or to enter a new folder name in the
Program Folders field. By default, FrontPage icons are added to the
Microsoft FrontPage program folder. After selecting a program folder
or accepting the default, choose Next.
(10) The Start Copying Files panel displays the settings you selected.
To change any setting, choose Back until you reach the relevant panel,
make your new choice, and choose Next until you reach the Start
Copying Files panel again.
(11) Start the installation by choosing Next when you are satisfied with
your selections.
While FrontPage is being installed, the setup program graphically
indicates the progress of the installation. At the end of this step, the
setup program may prompt you to restart your machine.
(12) When you install the Personal Web Server, you must register as
the administrator of the server. (This is not required if you are upgrading
a currently installed Personal Web Server.) If needed, the setup program
will prompt you to supply the necessary information in the Administrator
Setup for Personal Web Server dialog box.
To register as the administrator of the Personal Web Server, enter a name
in the Name field, enter a password in the Password field, and confirm
your password by entering it in the Confirm Password field. There is no
limit on the length of the name or password. It is safest to use a password
with at least 8 characters. Be sure to keep a record of this information
because you will need to supply the name and password to create or open
a web on the server. Choose OK to register your name and password.
(13) After you register your name and password, the installation completes,
and the setup program displays the Setup Complete panel. You can start
the FrontPage Explorer from this panel. Choose Finish to exit the setup
program.
-[Installation: Custom Installation]
Follow these instructions to do a custom FrontPage installation, which installs
or upgrades any subset of the three major FrontPage components. Save all
current work and exit out of any applications before running the FrontPage
setup program.
(1) Create an empty directory and download fp11b3.exe (or fp11b3_1.exe,
fp11b3_2.exe, fp11b3_3.exe, and fp11b3_4.exe) into it.
(2) Run fp11b3.exe (or fp11b3_1.exe, fp11b3_2.exe, fp11b3_3.exe, and
fp11b3_4.exe)from the Windows 95 Start menu or, in Windows NT,
from the File menu. A set of files are extracted into the directory that
you created,including the setup program, setup.exe.
(3) If you have Windows 95, choose Run from the Start menu to run
setup.exe from the directory you created; for Windows NT, choose Run
from the File menu.
The setup program prompts you to close all other applications and save
any data on which you are currently working. This is necessary because
in some cases the setup program must restart your system after installing
FrontPage.
(4) Choose Next.
The Destination Path panel specifies where FrontPage will be installed. On a
PC running Windows 95, all FrontPage components are installed by default in
the \Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage folder on your C: drive. On a PC
running Windows NT, all FrontPage components are installed by default in the
\Microsoft FrontPage folder on your C: drive.
(5) To change the destination directory or drive, choose the Browse button.
(You cannot do this if you are installing over an existing version of
FrontPage.)
The Choose Directory dialog box opens.
The Path field displays the destination directory. In the Directories field,
select a new folder by browsing your file system. In the Drives field,
select a drive from the list of available drives. To connect a new drive,
choose Network. Choose OK to accept your selection. If you enter a new
folder in the Path field, the setup program will create it.
(6) To accept the destination directory, choose Next.
The Setup Type panel lets you choose the type of installation: Typical or
Custom.
(7) Choose Custom, then choose Next.
(8) On the Select Components panel, select any combination of the listed components:
Client Software, Personal Web Server, and FrontPage Server Extensions.
If you are installing the Personal Web Server, you should also install the FrontPage
Server Extensions.
(9) The Select Components panel also displays the amount of disk space required
to install the FrontPage components that you selected and the amount of disk
space available.
If you do not have enough space to install FrontPage, choose Disk Space. The
Available Disk Space dialog box opens.
The Required field displays the amount of disk space required to install your
selections. The Available field displays the total available disk space on the
current drive. To change drives, select a new drive from the list of available
drives in the Drive field.
(10) If you cannot find enough disk space, choose Cancel to close the Available
Disk Space dialog box and exit the setup program by choosing Cancel.
If you are satisfied with the amount of disk space available on the selected
drive, choose OK.
(11) After you have selected the components to install and have determined that
you have the required disk space, choose Next.
(12) If you have selected to install the Personal Web Server, one of the
following two panels appears:
-Choose Personal Web Server Directory panel
This indicates that you are either installing the Personal Web Server for
the first time or reinstalling over the same version of the Personal Web Server.
If setup does not detect a Personal Web Server on your machine, it will install it
by default in the folder \FrontPage Webs. The Personal Web Server is installed
in \FrontPage Webs\Server and the content folder is installed in
\FrontPage Webs\Content. To install to a different folder, choose Browse and
specify the folder in the Choose Directory dialog box.
If setup detects the current version of the Personal Web Server already installed on
your machine, the Personal Web Server is installed over the existing version.
The Browse button is not displayed, because you cannot change the installation
directory. The existing content folder (the folder in which webs are stored
by the server) will be preserved.
Choose Next and go to Step 13.
- Personal Web Server panel
This panel appears if setup detects a previous version of the Personal Web
Server already installed on your machine. This panel displays two choices:
-- Upgrade
This option installs the new Personal Web Server over the previously installed version.
The Personal Web Server will be installed in the folder \FrontPage Server. If
the current Personal Web Server is not in that folder, it will be moved there before it
is upgraded. The existing content folder (the folder in which webs are stored by the server)
will be preserved.
After choosing Upgrade, choose Next and go to Step 13.
-- Install
This option installs a new Personal Web Server in a separate directory from the
previously installed Personal Web Server.
Setup installs a copy of the Personal Web Server in a separate folder and creates
a separate content folder for the new Personal Web Server. The original Personal Web
Server and its content folder are preserved.After choosing Upgrade, the Choose
Personal Web Server Directory panel appears. The new Personal Web Server is
installed by default in \FrontPage Webs\Server and the new content folder is
installed in \FrontPage Webs\Content. To install to a different folder, choose
Browse and select the folder in the Choose Directory dialog box. After selecting
the folder or accepting the default, choose Next.
When you install a second Personal Web Server, the original Personal Web
Server continues to be configured to use TCP/IP port 80 and the new Personal
Web Server is assigned TCP/IP port 8080. The setup program displays this information.
Choose Next and go to Step 13.
(13) Use the Select Program Folder panel to select a program folder from
the list in the Existing Folders field or enter a new folder name in the Program
Folders field. By default, FrontPage icons are added to the Microsoft FrontPage
program folder. After selecting a program folder or accepting the default,
choose Next.
(14) The Start Copying Files panel displays the settings you selected. To
change any setting, choose Back until you reach the relevant panel, make
your new choice, and choose Next until you reach the Start Copying Files
panel again.
(15) Start the installation by choosing Next when you are satisfied with
your selections.
While FrontPage is being installed, the setup program graphically indicates
the progress of the installation. At the end of this step, the setup program may
prompt you to restart your machine.
(16) If you installed the Personal Web Server, you must register as the
administrator of the server. (This is not required if you are upgrading a
currently installed Personal Web Server.) If needed, the setup program will
prompt you to supply the necessary information in the Administrator Setup
for Personal Web Server dialog box.
To register as the administrator of the Personal Web Server, enter a name in
the Name field, enter a password in the Password field, and confirm your password
by entering it in the Confirm Password field. There is no limit on the length of the
name or password. It is safest to use a password with at least 8 characters. Be sure
to keep a record of your name and password, because you will need to supply them
to create or edit a web on the server. Choose OK to register your name and
password.
(17) After you register your name and password, the installation completes, and
the setup program displays the Setup Complete panel. You can start the FrontPage
Explorer from this panel. Choose Finish to exit the setup program.
[Uninstalling FrontPage]
To uninstall FrontPage from Windows 95, open the Control Panel,
then select Add/Remove Programs, select Microsoft FrontPage from the list,
and click Add/Remove.
To uninstall FrontPage from Windows NT, click the Uninstall Microsoft
FrontPage icon in the Microsoft FrontPage program group.
[FrontPage TCP/IP Test Utility]
If you are installing FrontPage on a computer that is not part of a network,
or if you need to learn your host name, IP address, or other network-related
information, run FrontPage TCP/IP Test, described below, after installing
FrontPage. When you use FrontPage you will be prompted to supply the
host name of your machine during some operations. Also, if you have problems
after installing FrontPage, you may need to ensure that you have a correctly operating
32-bit version of Winsock, version 1.1.
The FrontPage TCP/IP Test utility analyzes the following elements of your
network configuration:
-Host name of your machine
The utility finds and displays the host name of your machine. When you create
a web with FrontPage, you need to indicate the server on which you want
the web stored. This field supplies the TCP/IP host name of your machine
on which you can store a web.
-Correct Winsock version
FrontPage requires a 32-bit Winsock, version 1.1. If your machine only has a
16-bit Winsock, FrontPage will not work.
-Internet Protocol (IP) address of your machine.
Your machine has a unique address for sending and receiving information
on the Internet. This address is reported by FrontPage TCP/IP Test.
-Connection to localhost
The IP address of localhost is checked and its connection is verified. If
access to localhost is reported
as OK, you may use "localhost" as your host name in FrontPage. (The
host address 127.0.0.1 is the address used to designate the loopback address of
the local host, therefore, the name localhost.)
You can run TCP/IP Test from the Windows 95 Start menu or from the
File menu in Windows NT. After running FrontPage TCP/IP Test, if an element
is correct, it has an OK next to it. If the utility detects a
problem, the problem category is marked as failed. Choose the
Explain Results button for information about
the problem and how to resolve it, or for additional information after a successful test.
[What's New in This Release]
Following is a list of the new features in FrontPage 1.1.
-[Microsoft Office Integration]
FrontPage 1.1 includes several features that improve its integration with
Microsoft Office. These features are:
-Office Look-and-Feel
FrontPage 1.1 sports the look-and-feel of Microsoft Office. Toolbar buttons
have been updated, menus have been reorganized, dialog boxes have been
redesigned, and keyboard shortcuts have been added to create a
user interface that is instantly recognizable and usable by Microsoft Office users.
In addition, where applicable, FrontPage 1.1 Editor toolbar buttons that pertain
to web browsing have been changed to match the corresponding buttons
in Microsoft Internet Explorer. FrontPage 1.1, Microsoft
Office, and Microsoft Internet Explorer together provide a seamless user
experience for the creation and viewing of webs for both intranets and the global
Internet.
-Updating Office Documents in Webs
FrontPage 1.0 provided the ability to add Office documents to webs. FrontPage
1.1 expands on this capability by automatically launching the appropriate Office
application (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) when you open an Office document
in a web from inside the FrontPage Explorer. After you update the
document using the Office application, FrontPage imports the modified document
back into the web.
-Office Spell Checker
FrontPage 1.0 included a basic spell-checking facility. FrontPage 1.1
improves this feature by using a copy of the spell-checking dictionary
included with Microsoft Office.
-[Tables]
Support for HTML tables has been added, and tables are displayed in a
WYSIWYG manner. Table features are accessed on the Table menu of the
FrontPage Editor, or by the Properties dialog box for tables or cells.
You have direct control over all table features, including:
Inserting rows and columns
Using any HTML features within table cells, including images
Auto-resize or fixed-width tables and cells
Splitting cells
Merging cells
Table alignment
Horizontal and vertical cell alignment
Borders
Header cells
Cell padding and spacing
Table captions
-[Frames]
FrontPage 1.1 provides a Frames Wizard that creates a Netscape Navigator 2.0 style frame
set. You can choose from several existing frame templates, or you can create a custom frame
grid. The frame set is stored into the web like any other document, with pointers to the
documents that are displayed within the frame set. The Frames Wizard is accessed by choosing
File: New in the FrontPage Editor.
-[Auto-Fix Links]
FrontPage 1.1 adds the ability to automatically update all occurrences of a link
throughout a web. This capability is used for moving documents, renaming
documents, and fixing links:
-[Move and Rename Documents]
FrontPage 1.1 allows you to rename any file within the web or move it to
another directory within the web. The document may be of any type (HTML,
image, etc.). Any link references to that document within the web are automatically
updated to reflect the new document file name or path.
-[Find and Fix Broken Links]
FrontPage 1.1 extends its Verify Links feature to display the list of broken
links internal to the web. Furthermore, if you change any broken internal or
external link, FrontPage 1.1 provides the option of changing all pages that
contains that link or any subset of those pages.
-[Style Pages]
FrontPage 1.1 adds a new optional page property so the color scheme of the
page can be specified by a separate style page. Changing the color scheme of the
style page automatically updates all pages that reference that style page.
-[Font Color]
FrontPage 1.1 allows the color of any collection of text to be changed.
-[Active Link Color]
FrontPage 1.1 allows you to specify the color of "active" links-the link color displayed
while you hold down the mouse button in the process of clicking on the link.
-[Page Variables]
FrontPage 1.1 allows you to set "META" and "HTTP-EQUIV" variables for a page.
-[Image Alignment Preview]
FrontPage 1.1 provides an Apply button in the Image Properties dialog box, allowing
you to see the effect of the alignment without having to close the dialog box.
-[Break Below Images]
FrontPage 1.1 allows you to add break tags that work with left- and right-aligned images.
-[Alternative Representation Images]
FrontPage 1.1 allows you to specify an alternative representation for an image
that gets downloaded and displayed first (corresponding to the HTML "LOWSRC"
attribute on the image). Typically, this is a low-resolution version of the image,
displayed until the higher-resolution version of the image has finished
downloading.
-[Font Sizes on Toolbar]
FrontPage 1.1 provides toolbar buttons for setting the font size.
-[Right-Alignment of Paragraphs]
FrontPage 1.1 now supports right-alignment of paragraphs. (FrontPage 1.0 provided
paragraph left and center alignment only.)
-[Alignment on Toolbar]
FrontPage 1.1 provides toolbar buttons for left, center, and right alignment of
paragraphs and images.
-[Custom Page Templates]
FrontPage 1.1 allows you to create a custom page template from directly within the
product. To create a page template, edit a page in the FrontPage Editor, then choose
File: Save As and click the Save as Template button in the Save As dialog box. Once created,
a custom page template automatically appears on the list of available templates within
FrontPage, alongside the templates included with FrontPage.
-[WYSIWYG Image Alignment]
In FrontPage 1.1, image alignment is fully WYSIWYG, so you can see just how the
image will appear.
-[Multi-Level Undo]
FrontPage 1.1 provides multi-level undo, allowing up to the last 30 actions in the
FrontPage Editor to be backed out.
-[Discussion Group Improvements]
FrontPage 1.1 adds a basic discussion group administration facility. First,
an additional option is available in the FrontPage Explorer to allow all messages
in a discussion group to be viewed from within the FrontPage Explorer. (In
FrontPage 1.0, discussion group messages were never shown in the FrontPage
Explorer.) From there, a discussion group moderator may use the Summary View
of the FrontPage Explorer to see the complete, ordered list of messages within a
discussion group. To view a particular message in the Summary View,
the moderator double clicks on the message to view it in the FrontPage Editor.
If the moderator feels changes need to be made, the moderator may edit
the message and save the modified message back to the discussion group.
The moderator can also delete a message.
Only someone authorized (by username/password and/or IP address) to author
the FrontPage web can make changes to the contents of the discussion group.
For example, a discussion group could be put into a separate subweb by itself,
and the moderator(s) of the discussion group could be added as the only author
allowed to modify that subweb.
FrontPage 1.1 also adds the ability for discussion groups to be displayed using
frames, making discussion groups more attractive and easier to use. This
feature is enabled from a checkbox in the Discussion Web Wizard used to
create the discussion group.
-[Multi-Homing]
FrontPage 1.1 adds support for "multi-homing," which refers to the ability
of a single web server machine to host webs for multiple domain
names (for example, "www.acme.com" and "www.volcano.com" on the same
web server machine). Multi-homing is actually implemented in one of two ways:
(1) the web server software explicitly supports multi-homing, or (2) multiple
instances of the web server software are running on the same machine, one for
each supported domain name.
FrontPage 1.1 is compatible with both types of multi-homing for all web servers
that FrontPage supports. Most web servers support the multi-instance model
for multi-homing. A few web servers provide single-instance multi-homing
(namely, the latest releases of the NCSA and Apache web servers) and
FrontPage supports all of these.
-[Other Enhancements]
- FrontPage Explorer automatically checks for valid TCP/IP operation on
startup, and you are automatically directed to appropriate Windows 95 or
Windows NT help in the event that TCP/IP is not properly setup.
- FrontPage Explorer automatically determines the local host name for the
New Web, Open Web, and Copy Web dialog boxes.
- FrontPage Explorer automatically starts the Personal Web
Server (PWS) when required, to avoid an error message in the event
the PWS is not already running.
- FrontPage Explorer temporarily disables Windows 95 TCP/IP auto-dial
at startup, allowing FrontPage operation without requiring a live
connection to an Internet service provider.
- "How-to" user-guide style information has been added to the help
system on all major topics.
- Several FrontPage error messages have been improved with more complete
explanations of the causes of
errors.
-[Uninstall]
FrontPage 1.1 includes an uninstall capability.
-[ "Include" Links Display]
In the Link View of FrontPage 1.0, an arrow from Document A to Document
B could either mean that Document A contains a hyperlink to Document B,
or Document A includes Document B (via an Include Bot). However, in
FrontPage 1.1, "include" links are displayed with a bullet head instead of an
arrow head so that they can be visually distinguished.
-[Interlaced Images]
FrontPage 1.0 supported "transparent" images, where the image
background color is transparent and allows the page background to show
through. FrontPage 1.1 adds support for "interlaced" images, which are GIF
format images that gradually render until they are in full fidelity. To make an
image interlaced in FrontPage 1.1, right-mouse click on an image,
choose Properties from the context menu, then select the Interlaced checkbox.
-[Superscripts/Subscripts]
FrontPage 1.1 adds support for superscript and subscript characters,
generating the appropriate HTML. Superscript and subscript are available
from the Format/Characters menu in the FrontPage Editor.
-[Preserves Unrecognized HTML]
FrontPage 1.1 preserves all unrecognized HTML tags and attributes and
any unrecognized attributes on successfully recognized HTML tags. This
allows FrontPage to be used on web pages already containing
new HTML constructs not yet supported by FrontPage, and in conjunction
with other web products that use proprietary tags and attributes in HTML documents.
-[Clickable Images Enhancements]
FrontPage 1.0 required that the FrontPage Server Extensions be
installed on the web server in order for clickable images to work
when browsing the web. This posed a problem for users who author
their webs locally in FrontPage but then transfer the content to a web
site that does not have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed, such
as the web "farms" operated by many Internet service providers.
FrontPage 1.1 provides two methods for clickable images to operate
without the need for the FrontPage Server Extensions. First, FrontPage
1.1 automatically supports "client-side image," a feature recently added
to Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, wherein the web browser can
immediately follow a clickable- image hyperlink without requiring additional
web server intervention. This reduces the load required on the web server and
also helps standardize the processing of clickable images (each vendor's web
server tends to handle clickable images slightly differently). FrontPage also
generates the appropriate HTML so that web browsers that do not support
client-side images will automatically transfer clickable-image processing to
the web server, the old fashioned way.
In addition, for the benefit of browsers that do not support client-side images
and web sites that do not have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed,
FrontPage 1.1 can be configured to generate HTML that will leverage the
native web-server clickable-image support, rather than the clickable-image
support built into the FrontPage Server Extensions. FrontPage 1.1 specifically
supports the NCSA, CERN, and Netscape native web-server clickable-image
models (many other vendors' web servers duplicate one of these three
clickable-image models), as an alternative to the FrontPage Server Extensions
model for clickable images. This feature is accessed in the Advanced tab in the
Web Settings dialog box in the FrontPage Explorer.
-[Back and Reload in Editor]
The FrontPage 1.0 Editor behaved as a basic web browser, including following
hyperlinks (by holding down the CTRL key while clicking on a link). FrontPage
1.1 adds the web browser abilities and toolbar buttons needed to go back
to the previous page (the FrontPage Editor maintains an internal list of the
previously visited pages) and reload the current page from the web server.
-[Windows 95 Style Help]
FrontPage 1.1 now uses Windows 95 style Help invocation, with tabbed dialog
boxes for Contents, Index, and Find. Procedural help has been added for all
FrontPage commands.
-[Enhanced Learning FrontPage tutorial]
The tutorial has been enlarged to incorporate more FrontPage features, such as
tables, Search and Include bots, and customized page properties.
-[Authoring Logging]
FrontPage 1.1 can log all authoring operations onto the web server where
the authoring takes place. The log includes the author's name, the date/time
that the authoring took place, and the operation performed. This
log can be analyzed offline in the event of security breaches that require investigation.
[ Additional Tips and Known Problems]
Please keep in mind the following tips and known problems when using this FrontPage
1.1 Beta 3 release:
-In the FrontPage Explorer, do not rename a page twice so that the new filename
extension is first longer shorter than the original extension and then shorter.
For example, do not rename "page1.htm" to "page1.html" and then back to "page1.htm".
-Configuring the Online Help system or Learning FrontPage Tutorial to always
be on top may cause the FrontPage Editor to halt.
-To follow a link from the FrontPage Editor, do not use the Next button on
the toolbar. Use Tools: Follow Link or choose CTRL+Left mouse button.
- As a security measure, you cannot use the FrontPage Editor or FrontPage Explorer
to launch an executable file (a file with a .EXE, .COM, or .BAT filename extension).
If you use the FrontPage Editor's Tools: Follow Link command to follow a link to
an executable file, the FrontPage Editor will prompt you to save the file to your
file system . Similarly, if you try to open an executable file from the FrontPage
Explorer, the FrontPage Explorer will prompt you to save the file.
-If you have an existing Personal Web Server installed on your
machine, and you choose to install a new copy of the Personal Web
Server in a different directory (instead of upgrading the existing one), then,
under Windows NT only, an icon will not be created for the new Personal
Web Server. However, the Personal Web Server will be installed correctly.
To create an icon for the new PWS:
(1) Open your "Microsoft FrontPage" folder in the Program Manager.
(2) Choose "New" from the File menu.
(3) Choose "Program Item" and click "OK"
(4) Enter the following values into the Program Item Properties dialog,
substituting the correct directory and drive for C:\FrontPage Webs. Note that
the quotes around the text in the Command Line are necessary if there
are space or other unusual characters in the directory name:
Description: Personal Web Server (Port 8080)
Command Line: "C:\FrontPage Webs\Server\vhttpd32.exe" -d "C:\FrontPage Webs\Server"
Working Dir: "C:\FrontPage Webs\Server"
Short Cut: None
-If upgrading from FrontPage 1.0, before using NCSA- or CERN-style clickable
images on the Personal Web Server, perform the following steps:
--(1) Install the clickable image programs.
copy c:\FrontPage\bin\imagemap.exe c:\content\cgi-bin
copy c:\FrontPage\bin\htimage.exe c:\content\cgi-bin
If you installed FrontPage to a different directory, modify the paths.
--(2) Add an alias for the clickable image programs to your srm.cnf file:
edit c:\fpserver\conf\srm.cnf
Then add these two lines to the bottom:
WinScriptAlias /cgi-bin/imagemap/ c:/content/cgi-bin/imagemap.exe/
WinScriptAlias /cgi-bin/htimage/ c:/content/cgi-bin/htimage.exe/
[Troubleshooting]
Several log files are created by FrontPage that might help diagnose problems. Also,
the FrontPage TCP/IP Test utility can be used to test elements of your network
configuration, and the Check FrontPage Installation utility can be used to ensure
that the DLLs required by FrontPage are properly installed.
Server Extender Log:
c:\frontpg.log (on Windows 95)
System Event Viewer (on Windows NT)
Windows initialization files:
c:\windows\frontpg.ini (if c:\windows is your Windows directory)
c:\windows\fpeditor.ini
c:\windows\fpexplor.ini
Personal Web Server Logs:
c:\FPWebs\Server\http.log (or wherever you installed the product)
c:\FPWebs\Server\logs\error.log
c:\FPWebs\Server\logs\access.log
FrontPage Server Administrator:
c:\windows\fpsrvadm.ini
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In the event you cannot install or have a technical question about Microsoft
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