With FrontPage, you can turn directories in your site into subwebs, which means you can assign others the ability to access those directories' files and publish to them. This protects your own user name and password and your root directory and also makes it convenient for others to author web pages for you.

When you activate FrontPage, you'll create a default author who can modify only to the root web (or "top-level site," in FrontPage 2003), the highest-level directory of your site. To allow publishing in subdirectories, you must activate subwebs.

When you activate a subweb, you enable FrontPage publishing in a subdirectory of your site, installing essential extensions just like you did when you activated FrontPage publishing the first time. Learn more.

To create a new subweb:

1. Click the "FrontPage" link on the Create & Update tab of your GeoCities Control Panel.

2. Click the "Manage Site" link.

3. Next to "View by," select "site directories" to see the complete list of your existing site directories (this list will include any subwebs you've already created or activated).

4. Navigate to the directory in which you'd like to create the new subweb. You can open a subweb or directory by clicking its name, and navigate to a parent directory by clicking the links next to "Location" in the upper-left corner of this section.

5. Click the "Create subweb" link in the upper-right corner of this section. The "Create Subweb" module will appear.

6. Choose a name for this subweb. The name should not include any spaces.

7. To activate this subweb, you'll need to assign publishing privileges at least one author. Select an existing author from the pull-down menu or add a name and password for a new author.

8. Click "Activate" to save your work and activate this subweb.

Please be aware that folders inside a parent subweb do not inherit its authors. You can create a subweb within a subweb and define completely different authors for each.

You can also use the FrontPage console to activate an existing directory, converting it into a subweb. You do not need to make every directory in your site a subweb. You should activate only those directories in which you plan to publish files with FrontPage.

For detailed FrontPage support and troubleshooting, please contact Microsoft directly, as issues you encounter may be related to known bugs in the software. For further assistance, search the Microsoft Knowledge Base.