Microsoft FrontPage

Publishing

Microsoft FrontPage is a popular website composer tool that can help you create your website if you are not proficient in HTML coding and if you are looking to build a quality website without spending the time and money to hire a web developer.

With FrontPage, you can create and edit web pages, make hyperlinks, import graphics, design a feedback form, add navigation bars to pages in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor and then publish your entire website with a simple click of your mouse. It even allows you to integrate active elements such as hit counters and guest books into your website without knowledge of programming.

Our service supports Microsoft FrontPage 98, FrontPage 2000 and FrontPage 2003 (FrontPage XP).

If you are using DH Starter, view this tutorial.

If you are using DH Starter Plus, DH Unix Plus, DH Unix Pro or Ultra Web Hosting, view this tutorial.

I. DH Starter FrontPage Publishing Tutorial.

Recommended Software: Microsoft Front Page 2003

Start up your Microsoft FrontPage software and click on File then select New, then Page or Web.

Design your website. Remember to save all your web pages in the folder My Webs located at: C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\My Documents\My Webs

When you have completed designing your website, click on File, then select Open Web and then you will need to find and select the My Webs folder in your computer.

You will now see a Folder List to the left of your design window which will show all of the files in your My Webs folder.

Click on File, then select Publish Web. This will display the Publish Destination window. Enter the publish destination as: ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your own domain name). The click OK.

You will then be prompted to enter the Name: and Password. The Name is your Dollarhost Admin ID and the Password is your Dollarhost Password.

FrontPage will establish a connection to your server which will open the Publish Web window. Simply select files that you would like to publish then click Publish. Your website files will be published to the server.

* If changes are not visible after you have uploaded new content to your website, please try clearing your browser cache or temporary internet files and reload the page again.

II. DH Starter Plus, DH Unix Plus, DH Unix Pro or Ultra Web Hosting Frontpage Tutorial.

Recommended Software: Microsoft Front Page 2003

Start up your Microsoft FrontPage software and click on File then select New, then Page or Web.

Design your website. Remember to save all your web pages in the folder My Webs located at: C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\My Documents\My Webs

Frontpage Form Mail Setup: If the recipient email address is an email address under the website domain name, click here

When you have completed designing your website, click on File, then select Open Web and then you will need to find and select the My Webs folder in your computer.

You will now see a Folder List to the left of your design window which will show all of the files in your My Webs folder.

Click on File, then select Publish Web. This will display the Publish Destination window. Enter the publish destination as: http://www.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your own domain name). The click OK.

You will then be prompted to enter the Name: and Password. The Name is your Dollarhost Admin ID and the Password is your Dollarhost Password.

FrontPage will establish a connection to your server which will open the Publish Web window. Simply select files that you would like to publish then click Publish. Your website files will be published to the server.

* If changes are not visible after you have uploaded new content to your website, please try clearing your browser cache or temporary internet files and reload the page again.

Direct authoring using FrontPage

Using FrontPage you have the ability to connect to the server and directly make changes your web pages on the web server. This is updating method is called direct authoring to the server. To access your website and make changes directly to the server, click on File then select Open Web.

Enter the Web name as your full website URL in the format http://www.yourdomain.com. Then click Open. You may now make changes directly to your server. Editing your website in this way is not recommended as it does not save any changes locally to your computer meaning that you will not be left with any backup of your website files.

Note* Any changes made from this point will appear immediately on your website.