[WEB4LIB] help with FrontPage

[Tara Calishain]

At 12:52 PM 10/23/98 -0700, Grace Garbe wrote:
>I have created a new webpage for our library using FrontPage 98 (a very
frustrating experience when one is used to doing it all by hand), and  I'm
experiencing some problems that I hope someone can help me with.
>
>1.  now that the "web" has been "published" to my web server, can I use the
UNIX vi editor to make some changes to the page without anything horrible
happening?  There are no base HREF or meta tags for description and
keywords (I
didn't see any way to add these using FP)  and I want to add those.  There
also
is no DOCTYPE and I'm not sure which (if any) version of HTML FrontPage 98
complies with.  I ran the page through the validator at w3.org and it doesn't
validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional.   Will anything adverse happen if I remove
the height attribute that FP added to a <TABLE> tag?  I have visions of
loosing
my whole page if I make changes to it with vi and then have to pull it back
into the FP explorer and editor at some point to make adjustments to the image
map.  Would it be better to pull the page back into the FP editor now and edit
the HTML there?

Grace,

Um, I don't think I'd go all the way into vi to edit the Web page. 
(At least you should use Pico. :->) 

If you look at the Frontpage editor interface, you'll see that it has three
"tabs" on the bottom: Normal, HTML, and Preview. If you click on the
HTML tab, you'll be presented with the source code generated by FS. 
You can insert meta-tags there (either type 'em right in or just cut and
paste them in, whichever you like). I believe you could also play with the
table tags and then click on the Preview tab to see what the 
changes look like (though I would experiment with a disposable page 
before getting too deeply into this.) 

HTH,

Tara





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