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Detailed Instructions On Working With
FrontPage
We recommend highly that if you wish to use
FrontPage as part of your development cycle that you download the newest
client directly
from the FrontPage site.
The first thing you want to do is create your
web site, or "web" as it's called with FrontPage, on your own computer.
Working on your own computer is much faster than directly off the server..
To create your web, make sure that the Personal Web Server is running, and
launch Explorer. Select File-->New-->Front
Page Web from the menu (or Create
a New FrontPage Web from the Getting
Started box).
Choose Empty Web from the list (you can experiment with the other choices
later), and press OK
Next it will ask you for the location for the new web. For Web
Server, put localhost, and
for Web Name, give your web a name.
Now if all went well, Explorer will ask you for your username and password
and then create an empty web for you. In the header at the top it should
say "http://localhost/webname"
Now you can begin creating your web pages. Launch FrontPage Editor (without
closing Explorer). Now when you create a page and save it, it will automatically
be saved in your web. Make sure to name your home page default.htm.
Once you've finished creating and testing out
your web site, you can upload all the pages of your web site to our server.
To upload your web:
Open your web in Explorer (the web on your computer) and select File
--> Publish FrontPage Web from the menu. In location,
put http://www.yourdomain.com, or
your I.P address if your domain name has not yet been activated.
For the web name, select Root Web or
the name of your web for BASIC account.
Then enter your username and password once prompted to do so.
That's it. Now your entire web will be copied over to the server.
Or if you already created a new web, follow these instructions Creating
New Webs.
In addition to your Root
Web, you can also create other webs in your directory. One web
can be password protected, one web can contain a threaded-discussion
board. There are tons of things you can do with FrontPage, and the best
way to learn them is to experiment.
Resellers can also create webs for their clients, allowing them to maintain
their own web site using FrontPage, at no extra charge to the reseller.
Here are some important
things you need to know to create new webs:
1. The new web can be accessed as http://www.yourdomain.com/newweb
For example, put the name of the web in the location box (www.yourdomain.com/newweb)
and name the web newweb. Now
users will be able to access it with the above address (as long
as you named your home page default.htm)
You can also create a new web and select add
to existing web (for example, to create an threaded
discussion board). You don't have to have a separate web for
everything, but sometimes it is needed (password protection,
for example).
If you are having any problems uploading, copying,
or opening your webs, or with the non-FrontPage portion of your site, please
be sure to note the following:
Never use FTP or Telnet in those directories where you are using
FrontPage. FrontPage will not see anything you manually upload, and
any configurations you alter could cause big problems with FrontPage.
If you have the need to use for certain configuration files, be sure
to create a separate directory for those web pages, and only have
your default.htm in your Root Web.
You can maintain some directories using FrontPage and others using
FTP, but never mix the two!
