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k.hofstetter - 29 Jun 2007 14:20 GMT

I'm trying to figure out how to get my pictures at the top of the page to
rotate amongst themselves. We already have a web site, www.bossenbrook.com,
but we are looking at not renewing our contract with the company that hosts
for us and creating our own. All of the content and pictures on the current
site were given to them by us, so we can reuse them and I'm trying to make
the site look exactly the same. If you look at this site, you will see how
the pictures rotate at the top.

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Rob Giordano (Crash) - 29 Jun 2007 15:02 GMT

Sooooo....when viewing the page in your browser...right click on the body of
the page and choose View Source. This will open Notepad with your html for
the page. You'll see the javascript that's running the rotator...just copy
it.

However, that being said...don't use Publisher to edit a Frontpage created
website. It'd be REALLY easy to just import that site into Frontpage then
just move on to another host. Assuming of course that you own the
content/design. Shouldn't take too long to do this unless there's some fancy
stuff happening on the server.

| I'm trying to figure out how to get my pictures at the top of the page to
| rotate amongst themselves. We already have a web site, www.bossenbrook.com,
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| the site look exactly the same. If you look at this site, you will see how
| the pictures rotate at the top.

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k.hofstetter - 29 Jun 2007 15:20 GMT

I'm sorry, I'm new at this. What do you mean by a Frontpage created site?
Are you saying that's what was used to create our current site? Our is that
the software you are saying I should use? Or both??? Will Publisher work?
We are only going to be creating our web site and then updating it as needed,
I think he was trying to not spend a whole bunch of money on software?

> Sooooo....when viewing the page in your browser...right click on the body of
> the page and choose View Source. This will open Notepad with your html for
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> | the pictures rotate at the top.

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Rob Giordano (Crash) - 29 Jun 2007 15:34 GMT

It was created with Frontpage. It's on a server that supports Frontpage
extensions.

You will have a lot of work if you want to use Publisher to re-create this
from scratch and may not be able to. In addition Pub does not create
websites that are crossbrowser (it's hit or miss) Pub creates webs primarily
designed to be viewed in IE 5.5 and above...you take your chances being
viewd with any other browser.

FrontPage is being replaced (has been) by MS, BUT you can still find FP2003
around (just be careful where you buy it). It will be supported for several
more years by MS anyway.

You wouldn't have to muck around trying to recreate the site, just import
it, then re-publish it to your new host (make sure you buy a host with FP
extensions).

The whole operation would take you all of an hour...or less. In fact it only
took me 5 minutes to snag your entire site and I have it in Frontpage right
now. :-)

| I'm sorry, I'm new at this. What do you mean by a Frontpage created site?
| Are you saying that's what was used to create our current site? Our is that
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k.hofstetter - 29 Jun 2007 15:52 GMT

MS=Microsoft? Again, I'm new to web design. As for "snagging" the whole
thing and sending it to the new host, I'm not sure that I can do that? While
we gave her all of the content and pictures, and I personally picked out the
colors and gave her the c#006699 (or whatever) codes, and all of the fonts;
she created all of that code and made the site what it is. I don't think I
can take all of her code. Our contract says "I agree to delete the licensed
articles and images and discontinue using any content provided under this
license agreement."

> It was created with Frontpage. It's on a server that supports Frontpage
> extensions.
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> | > | the pictures rotate at the top.

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Rob Giordano (Crash) - 29 Jun 2007 16:38 GMT

What constitutes "licensed articles"?

If you paid her doesn't it fall under; work for hire, I would think the
content you created and the images you gave her are your's. I believe it's
your copyright - all she did was use a typewriter (frontpage) to bundle it
together and put it on the web for you and you paid for that.

MS= Microsoft
snagging....you didn't but I did :-)

| MS=Microsoft? Again, I'm new to web design. As for "snagging" the whole
| thing and sending it to the new host, I'm not sure that I can do that? While
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DavidF - 30 Jun 2007 00:33 GMT

I agree that with Rob. Though you might be able to rebuild a site with
Publisher that would look much like your current site, you would waste a lot
of time, and chances are it would not look as good or work as well in
browsers other than IE. Plus I have noticed at least two things done that
you would have trouble duplicating with Publisher.

Buy a copy of FrontPage, import the site, change it around a bit, repost it
to a new host with FPSE, and your done. As per the content, I am no
attorney, but it would seem to me that the content is yours, so if you just
change things around, I don't know why you would be in trouble...besides,
you suggested that you wanted to build a site that looked just like this one
in Publisher. What is the difference in building it with FrontPage?

Yes, you will have to invest some time learning FP, but that time is better
invested at this point than learning to use Publisher.

Just my 2 cents worth..

DavidF

> MS=Microsoft? Again, I'm new to web design. As for "snagging" the whole
> thing and sending it to the new host, I'm not sure that I can do that?
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