Microsoft Web authoring software has, of course, been moving on. As this is written, they are offering "Expression Web" and "Sharepoint Designer." The Microsoft Web site still has support features for FrontPage 2000, FrontPage 2002 and FrontPage 2003, though. Support documents and complete usage instructions can be found at Microsoft's official FrontPage Home Page.

Basic FrontPage® Instructions

Please remember that your domain name will need to be activated on our nameservers before FrontPage® will be available to your account.

Login: Choose "Open FrontPage Web" from the File Menu in FrontPage®e Explorer. It will ask you for a Web Server of File Location. Enter your domain name 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 that for 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.

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.

This tutorial presupposes that you have Microsoft FrontPage® installed on your computer and that your are 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® or any other Web authoring software, you must either have a page already created or create a page. To create a page with FrontPage®, follow these steps:

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

2. Type in "This is a simple page."

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

4. Name the html file.
(If this file is to be your "home page," 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.

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

To publish the page to your site, click on File --> Publish Web.

You should see a dialog box similar to:

Click on the Options button.

In box below "Specify the location to publish your site to:" enter the full URL for your site. If this is the first time you are publishing your site, select Publish all pages, overwriting any already on the destination. Also check the Include subwebs checkbox. Your dialog box should look similar to:

Click on the Publish button. You will be prompted to enter your username and password.

This is the same username and password you use to access the Control Panel portion of your Web site. Frontpage will begin publishing your site.

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:

Click Done.

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

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