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She wants to use shared borders as that is what she has been taught, rather than a file include.
We have created a top and bottom border which display as wanted in FP preview as header and footer to each page, and these have been uploaded into _border subdirectory. The web pages are in the parent directory.
I have viewed these files online and they all exist - but the web pages do not show the header and footer. Viewing Source I see that there is just a blank where I would expect the H&F to appear. I understand that shared borders work a bit like a server side include and get incorporated at runtime.
I conclude that there is some FP linking file that has got out of step.
I do not have FP installed (nor do I want to) but I was wondering if it was possible to manually edit an unknown file to make this linkage.
Format > Shared Borders...
When you do it may overwrite the files you made so back them up. I've had better success using the files that FP creates and cutting and pasting code into those files.
I really believe the problem is with the pages after upload - something FP and maybe her ISP are doing.
A missing or corrupt file - one in the _vti? folders.
I just don't know what I should expect to see, and what they should contain.
Start at the beginning.
Make sure you're working within the web. While leaving all pages closed repeat the steps outlined above.
If this doesn't work insert this code into last line of the <head> of every page.
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tb, default">
If this doesn't work I'm at a loss.
