Re: Front Page Fussy

[Matt Ion <soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ML -dot- ORG>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:06:12 -0800, Andrew Plato wrote:

>I had this problem once too.  You know what caused it?  I coded the
>SRCs wrong in the first place and FP couldn't figure out what I had
>done.  If you hard code the server location into the SRC, you get this
>behavior in FP.  You need to code relative links, that address only
>the nested directories inside the web site root.  Then FP will work
>like a charm.

Trust me, my image links were "perfect" before FP got at them. All were
simply <img src="graphic.gif"> format to begin with.

>> It took me nearly an hour to track down and repair all the damage
>> FrontPage had done.  I told my friend if I ever caught him using it
>> again, I'd restrict his access to to upload to the site.
>>
>
>Yeah, nothing like exercising your authority over the web server to
>impress people. Everyone loves it when the web administrator makes
>ultimatums.  It is so professional and dignified.

Seeing as it's my own little personal server, and I'm hosting this page
and domain as a favor to one of my best friends, for free, I think I can
get away with it :-)




 Your friend and mine,
 Matt
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