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Frontpage Includes
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Frontpage Includes is one of the few Frontpage web components that do not require Frontpage Server Extensions to work. You can make changes to the included page and not even have to publish the page to work. You have to publish all the other pages though to see the changes.To Include a Page using Frontpage
On the page you wish to see the include, go to Insert - Web Component. In the new dialog box that opens, choose Included Content on the right and now choose Page on the left. Hit the Finish button and another dialog box will open. Locate the page you wish to include and hit OK.Once saved, you only need to publish the pages that you have changed. Usually though, this is time consuming which is why I recommend server side includes. You only need to publish one page and the content is parsed on the server before the browser renders the page.
Frontpage Web Components
A schedule include is a web component that requires Frontpage Server Extensions. A regular page include only requires Frontpage. It will insert some code into the pages that looks something like this:<!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="included_page.html" TAG="BODY" -->
I know I just wrote about this the other day: Working with Frontpage Includes, but I don't remember writing it (as some of you might remember my memory issues). I listened to the recording and it seemed to echo so hopefully this recording is a bit better.
