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Publishing Option is Grayed Out
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Chances are when you cannot publish, you are not working in a Frontpage website (or Expression Website). You can easily check to see if you have converted this folder to a Frontpage (or Expression) website by going to the location on your computer and drilling down to where the website is. Usually in Windows XP, it is something like
C:\Documents
and Settings\-USER-\My Documents\My Web Sites. (In Vista, it might
C:\Users\-USER-\Documents\My Web Sites). My Web Sites might even
have a globe on it
. This is ok. To one extent, this basically means that all the Frontpage (or Expression) Websites that are under this is a sub-web (or
sub-site). It really does not matter since chances are you are going to be
publishing it to a specific website on the Internet.
If you open the My Web Sites with the Frontpage - Open Website tool and see that
the folder you are working in does not have a globe on it, you can right click
on the folder, choose Convert to Web. This will then allow you to open the
Website via Frontpage - Open Site. You can also double click on this
Frontpage Website and a new Frontpage Window will open as well. You can also see an online tutorial as well on how to convert a folder to a web.
