I have just learning FrontPage 2003 using the Step by Step book. When I look at pages with ActiveX items in design view I see the item, if I switch to preview I dont see the item just the area it occupies.

I suspect that I need to change a security setting in Explorer, but I don't know where to start looking. Can anyone tell me which setting needs to be changed and the likely consequences

Per our support engineer:

Could you please tell me whether you can see the activex control by browsed with IE?

When I open will IE it displays. The code behind the item is:

<applet code="fprotate.class" codebase="images/" width="264" height="72">
<param name="image1" valuetype="ref" value="images/banner1.gif">
<param name="image2" valuetype="ref" value="images/banner2.gif">
<param name="image3" valuetype="ref" value="images/banner3.gif">
<param name="rotatoreffect" value="blindsHorizontal">
<param name="time" value="2">
</applet>

I did not manage to add the Site to the trusted sites. The website on my hard drive, examples to work through from the book.

If the Web site is not actually connected to a live Web server (i.e., it only lives on your hard drive) I don't believe that you'll be able to see any activex controlled items in preview mode.

This knowledge base article might help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323236/en-us

-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)