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[mtnjpr]

I am starting a site and would like to offer free postings for my viewers but am not sure how to go about it.( I use Frontpage ).

Any advice or help or chastising would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[minstrel]

Frontpage calls them "discussion groups". The instructions may vary a bit according to which version you use, but for FP2002 here are the instructions:

Create a discussion group on a web site
- On the File menu, point to New, and then click Page or Web.
- In the New Page or Web task pane, under New from template, click Web Site Templates.
- Click the Discussion Web Wizard.
- If you want to add the discussion web site pages that the Discussion Web Wizard will create to the current web site instead of creating a new one, select Add to current web.
- Click OK.
- Follow the directions on your screen to create a discussion group.

Notes
- After the wizard has set up your web pages, you can open and modify them as necessary.
- You must publish your web site to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft installed. Ask your web administrator or Internet Service Provider whether this software is installed on your web server. Once the web site is published, click Preview in Browser to test the discussion group.

[mtnjpr]

Thank you very much for that info, I had no idea how to do that.

Thanks

[minstrel]

You're welcome. I went through that process a while back - It's one of those FrontPage quirks - it's not where you expect it to be or even on the menu I expected to find it... I finally went to the Help file (go figure, eh? but it's like reading directions or a manual - that's for other people, not me) and that's where I found what I posted above.