Publish a Web Site

FrontPage 2002

Before you can put your site online, you will need to have a server that will "host" your web site.

Tip: Make a subweb
If you have an existing web site but don't want to replace it with your new web, you can make a subweb! For example, if your domain is www.yourcompany.com, but you are just testing your new web and don't want to overwrite anything on your existing domain, you can simply create a new folder - for example, www.yourcompany.com/mytestweb. Then publish your web to this location. No one else will know that it's there, but you can go to it online to view it and test it out.

Tip: Make a backup copy of your web site
Did you know that you can publish from a web server to your local computer? You can do this if your web server has FrontPage extensions. All you have to do is open your web live off the server, then set the "Remote Web Site" location to a folder on your computer. In this scenario, your local file folder acts as the "remote location," while your web server files, open in FrontPage, act as your "local location." FrontPage will take the files from your server and publish them to your computer. This is useful if you want to make a backup copy of your web site to your computer, or if changes have been made on the server and you want to "publish them back" to your local computer.

1. Open your web. Go to File > Publish Web. A dialog box will pop up. Type or browse to the location you want to publish your web.
   
   
   • To publish a server that has FrontPage Server Extensions, you may simply type the URL of the web site (http://www.yoursite.com).
   • To publish to an FTP server, type the FTP location (ftp://ftp.yourftplocation.com).
   • To publish to a folder on your computer or network, click the Browse button and browse to the folder.
      
     
2. Click OK.
    
3. If this is the first time you are publishing a web to this location, FrontPage will ask if it may create the files needed for a web. Click OK.
   
   
    
4. FrontPage will list the files in your web that it will publish.
   
   
    
5. You may click the "Options..." button if you are publishing to an existing web. You may also click the "Show" button to view the file structure of the publish location.
   1. Options:
      Choose if you want to publish only the pages that have changed, or if you want to overwrite all pages.
   2. Show:
      Click "Hide" to minimize the publish location file information.
       
6. Click "Publish" to publish your web. Then wait and watch while FrontPage publishes your web! A dialog box will come up to allow you to view your new web in a browser or to view your publish log file.