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Microsoft FrontPage has been outdated for a while now and replaced by Microsoft Expression Web 2. A number of good folks still use it though and have their websites even running on FPE! (FrontPage Extensions)

What makes things worse is that Microsoft have stopped development and support for FP leaving WebHosts no recourse but to drop FPE from their servers and leaving end-users with a broken website.

An option for them then is to:

If they opt to publish via ftp, this is possible as Microsoft FrontPage supports two methods of publishing files to the web server: HTTP POST and FTP though HTTP POST is the default publishing feature in Microsoft FrontPage (using the PUBLISH button), and the preferred method for uploading the Microsoft FrontPage created web site.

To use Microsoft FrontPage to upload a web via FTP, perform the following steps:

1. Open your web in Microsoft FrontPage Explorer
2. Click FILE -> PUBLISH WEB
3. Type in the destination FTP Server name in the location box in the form of:
ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com
4. Choose whether you wish to publish all pages, or only changed pages since your last publishing session
5. Click the PUBLISH button
6. Enter your FTP username and password when prompted

Hope this helps and let me know just about anything.

Author Homepage » http://www.stimuli.ca/
Plugin Homepage » http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/
On Wordpress » http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/installation/

I’ve addded Lightbox 2 for my plugin arsenal as part of this website semantic facade. Uncommon for most plugin installs, I got an error for this installation

Error:
Warning: opendir(/webpages/xx/bxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxx/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2/Themes) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in webpages/xx/bxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxx/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2/options.php on line 28

This “No such file or directory” gave it away as a quick check on the directory structure confirmed that its actually there. So it can only be of 2 things, the permissions on the folder or its filename.

I renamed the folder to ‘themes’ and it worked like a charm. I’ve never thought of linux to be picky on filenames but I have noticed that most have them in lowercase. I can’t explain why it happened, could be on the code of Lightbox or could be something else. But hey it works and I just love Lightbox 2.

Btw, if anyone can help me with my questions above, please feel free to educate me.

Phormer by itself is an excellent photo gallery software (consider the fact that it was last updated Jan 07). while it may have its fair share of shortcomings, most of those are overshadowed by the extensive capabilities it offers and the semantic approach to design by the author.

Earlier tonight as I was updating my photo gallery and adfchiteens I noticed that it lacks the Description meta tag (among others) for search engine optimization. Keen on wanting to have this option for a fully functional website, I made some codehacking on the scripts with good results. Below is a quick howto:

1. Create a backup of your existing funcs.php
2. Edit funcs.php and on line 1107, add the following code” <META NAME=”Description” CONTENT=”Your descriptive sentence or two goes here.”>
3. Save your changes and your done.
4. Verify your changes:
on Firefox: Tools >> Page Info >> Description
on IE6 : View >> Source

Hope this helps.