What is a WebBot?

WebBots are the mechanism for invoking many of the interactive features built into FrontPage. These features are added to your web through the FrontPage Editor | Insert FrontPage Component. Some, such as Include and Substitution allow elements of the web to be entered once and included in any or all of the pages by inserting the Bot component referencing that element for example a logo or a navigation bar. Changes made to the “master” element are made automatically to any page containing the referencing WebBot. Other WebBots, such as Search, Table of Contents and Timestamp, control dynamic browse-time features. These WebBots work “behind the scene” to keep your site up-to-date for...

Are there any precautions that I need to be aware before I begin using FrontPageĀ® to publish my site?

In order to protect the FrontPage extensions on your Unix account, please take into consideration the following precautions: FrontPage uses the same .htaccess file as the Protect Directories utility in your Control Panel, which could cause problems. Once you have installed FrontPage extensions, use the directory protection that comes with the software Do not use features found in your Control Panel to set passwords, limit access, set file permissions or delete directories or files in a FrontPage web. This should only be done through the options in FrontPage Explorer. Do NOT use regular FTP (such as WS_FTP) to upload files to the server when FrontPage extensions are installed. This may corrupt the extensions, disabling the interactive features available with FrontPage. NOTE: The exception to this is when loading custom scripts to the cgi-local directory on your...

How do I change password on client dashboard?

Clients have the ability to create up to 5 users in the new client dashboard. The default user is primary user with access to all areas of the dashboard. Additional users can be created in cases where e.g. a colleague or company’s IT person needs restricted access to certain areas in the client dashboard (say ticket system only). To reset the pass, click on Users under Advanced menu. Then click on the spyglass in front of Primary User and then you can modify user details including...