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Hello,

I am designing my website with Frontpage 2002 and I am very surprised to realize that my website contents are not in hierarchy structure after I created a site map for it using the feature table of contents provided by the Front page. http://www.vietnamsunrisetravel.com/sitemap.html

I do not know the reasons why the structure is not hierarchy and where to fix that.
Is there any tool/website to help me where to fix the structure?

I really need your help please!
Albert

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Short diagnosis and context (for ): FrontPage's Table of Contents tool does not infer a conceptual parent/child site map from in-page links. It reflects the Web's physical layout (folders and filenames) and simple sorting rules, so pages that live at the same folder level will appear flat. As noted, FrontPage won't invent sections for the site — they must be created. As noted, manual edits are possible but not always the best long-term answer.

Practical, low-risk workflow to get a real hierarchy

  1. Draft the desired hierarchy on paper (sections and subsections).
  2. In FrontPage's Folders view create matching subfolders and move files into them. FrontPage will usually prompt to update moved links — accept and then run the link-checker to confirm.
  3. Set each page's HTML Title (Page Properties) so the sitemap and menus show readable labels instead of filenames.
  4. Regenerate the Table of Contents or reinsert the TOC component so it re-reads the folder layout. Test the result locally before publishing.

Alternatives and small-site tricks

  • For a small site where moving files is impractical, apply numeric prefixes (01-, 02-) to filenames to force order in the TOC.
  • For full control, edit the sitemap.html to create nested lists or build a custom nav component that lists sections explicitly. Example structure:
<ul>
  <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
  <li>Destinations
    <ul>
      <li><a href="tours/vietnam.html">Vietnam</a></li>
      <li><a href="tours/laos.html">Laos</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

Notes and cautions
Back up the whole Web before batch moves. FrontPage is old and its server extensions and components can be fragile on modern hosts; consider exporting to a static structure or moving to a modern editor/CMS if ongoing maintenance is needed. Also consider adding an XML sitemap for search engines once the structure is fixed.

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Member Avatar for drjohn

What do you mean by the structure is not hierarchy???

A web site is a collection of html pages.

IF there are several quite distinct sections, YOU might choose to put then in different folders, and have a menu with sub-sections. But YOU have to build these menus and these folders. A site map is just a list of pages.

So what do you think FrontPage (the sign of the beast!) should have done?

Member Avatar for Veneficae

Do you mean that it's no longer in alphabetical order? If so, you can manually edit the Sitemap to be in alphabetical order by cutting and pasting each line individually, if that is the case. Otherwise I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

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