CHAPTER SEVEN - MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE

NOTE: If your account is a Virtual IP Plan, please remember that your domain name will need to be activated on our nameservers before FrontPage will be available to your account.

Basic FrontPage Instructions

Login: Choose "Open FrontPage Web" from the File Menu in FrontPage Explorer. It will ask you for a Web Server of File Location. Enter yourdomain.com and then "list webs".    Next, you  will need to select (double-click) the root web. The requested login and password will be the same as your FTP account.

Usage:  FrontPage supplies you with two separate interfaces.  The FrontPage explorer is used to manage the files within your web site.  If you open a file in your web site another program called FrontPage Editor will open.  When you are connected to your web then all changes made to any file you edit will be saved to your web.
*Note: Although the software documentation states that you can create the site on your computer and then "publish" it to the web server, we do not recommend this.    Many times publishing to the server from your computer will loose the Interactive web bots features that you may have setup when designing your site on your local computer.   We recommend that you create your entire site by being connected to your web and saving directly to the server.  To move files already created on your web site use the Import command found under the File menu within FrontPage Explorer to select the files to import to the server.  This is by far the best method for moving files from your hard drive to the server.

Additional support documents and complete usage instructions can be found at Microsoft's official FrontPage Home Page.

(Please note that the Our Technical Staff can not assist in client side FrontPage configuration, please check with Microsoft's Technical Support documents)

Microsoft FrontPage 2000

This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through configuring Microsoft FrontPage to exchange files between your computer and your web site.

In order to follow along with us, you'll need to have Microsoft FrontPage installed, and you'll need to be connected to the internet via your Internet service provider

Create a Simple Page

Before you can publish an html file to your web site with FrontPage, you must either have a page already created, or create a page. To create a page with FrontPage, follow these simple steps:

1. With FrontPage open, choose File --> New.

2. Type in "This is a simple test"

3. From the menu bar, choose File --> Save As.

4. Name the html file.
(If this file is to be your homepage, be sure to name it index.html)

Once you have the file saved to your hard drive, you are ready to publish the file.

Publish Your Web Page.

1. From the menu bar, choose File --> Publish Web .

You'll get a dialog box like this:

2. Click on the Options button

You will see a dialog box like this:

3. In box below Specify the location to publish your site to: enter the full URL for your site.

4. If this is the first time you are publishing your site, select Publish all pages...

5. Select Include subwebs.

You should now have a dialog box that looks like this:

Obviously, you will have put your real domain name instead of 'mydomain.com'

6. Click the Publish button.

You should now see a dialog box like this one:

7. Enter your username and password.

If you have entered all the details correctly, FrontPage 2000 will then publish your site. You will see a dialog box like this one when it has finished:

8. Click Done.

Further Microsoft FrontPage Support

If you need further assistance using FrontPage, go to the FrontPage Home Page.

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