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kojiweb
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Member since: 7/22/2003
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 RE: FrontPage and SiteBuildIt (in reply to MarkM)
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Mark,
There is a "process" to making SBI work with templates and FrontPage. I started with a template that was already "SBI" friendly
http://www.frontpagetools.com/frontpagetemplatesitebuildit.htm
I then created a local web site with that template and FrontPage.
The Short Story:
You edit the website locally following the "rules" for SBI HTML uploading. When you're done, you can upload each page, one at a time, into the SBI system. It does it's checking and loads the page for you. My only suggestion would be to make all the edits the SBI systems suggests locally, then re-upload the updated page.
The Long Story:
Excerpt from the ReadMe that came with my SBI template. I just want to warn you - this is much easier than it may look. It took me only a few minutes to go through and make the setting changes and actually, starting with a "SBI Friendly" template took care of much of this for me already.
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For more information on using the Site Build It (SBI) HTML features, log into your SBI account, under "site central" click on the "Upload Your Own HTML Page" button, then read the instructions under "STEP 1: Prepare Your Page for SBI!" Making special note of the "Before You Build Your Page -- Special Rules."
Some of the SBI HTML Special Rules
-- All HTML files must use the ".html" extension (not ".htm").
-- You must place all your images in a folder called image-files. Supported file types: .gif, .jpg, .png
-- You must place all media files in a folder called media-files. Supported file types: .mpg, .qt, .avi, .rm, .mp3, .wmf
-- You must place all supporting files in a folder called support-files. Supported file types: .js, .css, .swf, .pdf
-- You are not allowed to create any other folder names other than the three listed above. You also cannot nest folders (directories).
General Guidelines for Editing SBI Upload Templates in FrontPage 2002
-- Do not create or delete any directories. All the supported directories have already been created
-- All files must end in .html
-- All files must be in root directory unless otherwise specified above in the SBI HTML Rules
-- Do not use explicit urls (i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/file.html), only reference URLs (i.e. file.html).
-- Do not use Dynamic HTML (DHTML) effects
-- Do not use any Web Components
-- This template has already been formatted to meet the SBI HTML rules. If you follow the the FrontPage 2002 settings below and the general Guidelines, you should have no trouble implementing your template with SBI.
FrontPage 2002 Settings
By making the following settings in FrontPage 2002 you will have an easier time when editing your website for the SBI.
-- Open FrontPage 2002
-- From the menu click on Tools then Page Options.
-- Click on the HTML Source tab
-- Ensure the "Preserve Existing HTML" is selected
-- Next, go to the Compatibility tab on the far right and make the following settings:
- Browsers: Both Internet Explorer and Navigator
- Browser Versions: Custom
- Servers: Apache Server
- Ensure the "Enabled with Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions" is not checked.
Under "Available Technologies..." The bolded items should be checked, the rest should not be checked.
ActiveX Controls
VBScript
JavaScript
Java Applets
Dynamic HTML
Frames
CSS 1.0 (formatting)
CSS 2.0 (positioning)
Active server pages
VML Graphics
Downlevel Image File
Tips for editing pages for SBI
When analyzing a page in SBI, make the suggested changes in FrontPage then re-upload the HTML page to SBI. This way your local copy of the web pages will always be the most up to date.
Make a note of where your web site is. SBI uploads each file one at a time and you will need to know where your web site is on your drive. If you edit the template directly from where it was installed, then it will be located where stated in the Installation section of this readme.
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 -- It's a lot to read, but it works. I'm pretty happy with the process and I understand in order to get all the benefits that SBI offers, I need to follow some rules that enable SBI to still "do it's thing."
That's what I know,
Kelly
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Date: 7/24/2003 7:19:50 AM
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Linda Pace
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Member since: 7/25/2003
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RE: FrontPage and SiteBuildIt (in reply to Susan Bilheimer)
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Hi Susan,
Linda from SiteSell.com again. :-)
In order to gain the benefits of using the SBI! system FrontPage users need to make some adjustments to building that will have to be followed, as SBI! requires knowledge of certain elements of your site in order to do integrate all of the Search Engine Modules, MailOut system etc...
On that note, Paul Colligan has worked closely with us to develop a wonderful set of FP themes especially for use with SBI!, and sells them at a very low price for SBI! users ($15). They are already set up for you in the way that SBI needs it, so development time is optimized...
http://www.frontpageworld.com/frontpagetools/webtemplates.htm
As far as functionality of your site goes, it depends on what you are doing and more importantly how. I would need more details to make a proper comment. But please rest assured that SBI! does indeed work...
http://buildit.sitesell.com/sbi-businesses/traffic-alexa.html
In general if you are following standard HTML JS, CSS, etc... you will have no problems. But if you are relying on the built in Microsoft "version" of Javascript, DHTML etc.. and it's own internal way of coding, then you will defiantly have to adjust your way of working, as Kelly has noted -- nothing major, just minor adjustments to get the full benefit of the power of SBI!.
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Date: 7/25/2003 10:40:11 PM
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kojiweb
Posts: 79
Member since: 7/22/2003
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Differences using FrontPage 2003 and... (in reply to Glen Hooke)
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Glen,
I haven't done all the testing yet (crazy times here), but I'll give you a couple of things that are different in FrontPage 2003 and look like they'll work with SBI if you wanted to experiment.
The single biggest difference is FrontPage 2003's use of "behaviors". The situation with FrontPage 2000/2002 is when you did effects like hover FrontPage created a .class file and puts it in the root directory. SBI requires support files to be in the “support-files” directory so now that feature is incompatible. With the 2003 behaviors, however, many of them are all done with HTML directly in the page – making them SBI Friendly. It appears (and again, I haven’t tested) that you have a new level of freedom for effects and features (like creating buttons, roll-overs, etc) with 2003 that you just couldn’t do, or were SBI un-friendly, in 2000/2002 versions.
The other main difference is FrontPage 2003’s improved handling of web servers that don’t use FrontPage extensions. There are some advanced features that FrontPage 2003 will allow you to use on any web server which were only available with 2000/2002 if you had a FrontPage server extensions. One example is the use of includes. Now, if you use includes when designing your website, but your web server doesn't have extensions, FrontPage 2003 automatically inserts the code before publishing. The catch for a feature like “includes” with SBI is that you’d need to publish your site somewhere without extensions, then upload each page from the published site (since all the includes would have been inserted there).
When we have more detailed information, we’ll certainly publish it here.
Hope that gives you some ideas. Play around with it and if you find a feature that works, please let us know.
Kelly
< Message edited by kojiweb -- 3/12/2004 9:39:44 AM >
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