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Tip 6: Making it Local: Take Your Work Offline
If you usually work on a Web site directly from a server, but occasionally need to work on it while offline, you can copy the pages you need with FrontPage's publishing features. First, open the site on the server (select Open Web from the File menu). Then copy the site to your computer's hard drive by publishing it (select Publish Web from the File menu). To specify the publishing location, type in the desired path, such as "c:\my documents\my web\." FrontPage will copy the files and file structure to your hard drive.

From there you can open pages and edit them just like you would normally. When finished editing, publish the site back to the server.

Tip 7: Finding Your Way: Create a Site Map
FrontPage 2002 lets you assign categories to pages in your Web site, then automatically generate a list of links to all the pages in a particular category, by using the Table of Contents Web Component. This component is particularly useful if you want to create a site map that links to all of the key pages in your site.

1. Create a new category for pages that will be in the site map. Right-click on pages in the Folder List, then click Properties. Click the Workgroup tab on the Properties dialog box, then click the Categories button. In the New Category box, type the new category name (such as "Site Map"), and then click the Add button and OK, as shown in Figure 5.
   

   Figure 5.
   

   In the Available categories scroll box, click the Site Map check box to assign this page to the Site Map category. Click OK. This is shown in Figure 6.

   

   Figure 6.
   

   Repeat this step for each page you want to add to the site map.

2. Open or create the page you want to contain the site map.
3. Insert the site map using the Table of Contents Web Component. Select Web Component from the Insert menu. Click Table of Contents in the Component type box, and Based on Page Category in the Choose a Table of Contents box, then click Finish. An example of this is shown in Figure 7.
   

   Figure 7.
   

   The site map appears only when the page is viewed in the browser.