Dividing a site into multiple subwebs makes it easier to perform administrative and authoring tasks, such as changing themes, publishing changes, and even finding specific files. In addition, if you have a large Web site, you can use subwebs to keep track of each author's work by assigning each author their own subweb. This article describes how to divide a large root Web into several smaller subwebs.

In FrontPage 2000, you can easily create subwebs by right-clicking a folder in your web and clicking Convert to Web.

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Dividing a Large Root Web into Several Smaller Subwebs

1.	Open the web that you want to divide into smaller subwebs.
2.	Organize your content into folders within your web.
3.	Right-click a folder that you want to make into a subweb, and then click Convert to Web.
4.	You receive a message similar to the following: Changing this folder will cause pages in it to change: - Pages that include files may not be updated when included files change. - Hyperlinks on Navigation bars may be removed. Are you sure you want to do this?
5.	Click Yes.

NOTES: If you want to use hyperlinks to move from the root Web to a subweb or between subwebs, you must use an absolute hyperlink like the following:

http://example.microsoft.com/examplesubweb
				

Also, if you use shared borders and navigation bars, you may experience some problems.

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For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194676 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194676/EN-US/).
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see 190617 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190617/EN-US/).

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