The Microsoft® FrontPage® extensions must be installed before you begin to work with FrontPage®. To do this, go to your Control Panel and click on MS® FrontPage®. 

* When you access your website in FrontPage you will be asked for a user name and password. The first time you use FrontPage, you will need to enter your ftp (Control Panel) user name and password. Later, you can change the FrontPage password. Just remember that the Control Panel password and your FrontPage password are separate. 

It is usually best to keep your Control Panel password and your FrontPage password the same so that you can remember them. To do this just remember to change your password in FrontPage each time you change it in the Control Panel. (In FrontPage 2000 you change your password by going to Tools/Security/Change Password).
 

The Fundamentals of Publishing with FrontPage

When you first create a Web site in FrontPage 98 or FrontPage 2000, you have the option of saving your Web to several different places.

Figure 1. FrontPage 2000 New dialog box

You have the option of creating your Web site on a hard drive, network drive, or Web server; the latter allows others locate and view it through their Web browser. 

When is it Necessary to Publish a Website?

If you open your website on the server, ie File/Open Web then type in http://www.yourdomain.com, you will be editing it directly on the server and you will not need to publish it since your changes are being made directly on the server. You only need to publish your site if you open it on another location such as your C: drive and make changes. Then you will need to publish it to our servers in order for your changes to be seen on the Internet.

Using Publishing to Create a Backup of Your Entire Web Site

How Do I Publish Using FrontPage 2000?

Step-by-step instructions

To publish in FrontPage 2000

1. From the File menu select Publish Web. The following dialog box appears.

 

 
 
 



2. Specify the location for publishing your Web by typing the path or clicking the Browse button and then selecting the location.

 

 
 
 

Here are examples of locations to which you can publish:

• Hard drive: C:\directory\ 
• Apollo Hosting Servers: http://www.yourdomain.com

• Publish changed pages only. FrontPage compares the files on your local Web to the files on the destination hard drive or Web server, and only those files that are newer than those on the destination hard drive or Web server are published. However, files that have been marked Don't Publish will not be published. 

Note   To mark specific pages as Don't Publish, on the View menu, point to Reports and then click Publish Status. If you don't want to publish a certain page, click that item's entry in the Publish column and change it to Don't Publish.

• Publish all pages, overwriting any already on the destination. The files from the local Web site will overwrite all files on the destination Web server, even if the files on the Web server are newer. This publishing feature should be used judiciously because once files are overwritten, you won't be able to get the previous versions back. 
• Include sub-Web sites. If the current Web has sub-Web sites, all files and folders in sub-Web sites will be published in addition to those in the current Web. 
• Secure connection required (SSL). You can use this feature to encrypt the information transmitted so that no one can read it. Your destination Web server must support HTTPS authentication for this feature to work. This provides an added level of security that can be useful when you are publishing sensitive information to a provider outside your company.

1. Click Publish, and then you will see a progress bar that shows you that publishing is under way.

 

 
 
 

FrontPage also includes a feature that synchronizes the files on your source with those on your publishing destination. If FrontPage finds a page on the publishing destination that does not exist in your source files, it will ask you if you wish to remove that file, as shown in this dialog box.



This feature helps you to get rid of unused files that would otherwise clutter your Web site and use up disk space unnecessarily.

Note   If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

Tip   To publish only pages that have changed to the same location you previously published to, click the Publish button , located on the FrontPage toolbar. If you haven't previously published this Web site before, pressing this button will bring up the same Publish dialog box that's also available from the File menu, under Publish Web.

How Do I Publish Using FrontPage 98?

What's New and Different Between Publishing in FrontPage 98 and FrontPage 2000?

• Selective publishing. In FrontPage 98, you could choose to publish your entire site, or just those pages that have changed. FrontPage 2000 improves upon this by allowing you to mark specific pages as Don't Publish so you can selectively exclude certain files from publishing. This is especially useful for pages that are still under construction or contain sensitive information that is not yet ready to be released. 
• Display publishing status. In FrontPage 98, there was no indicator to let you know the status of the publishing process. FrontPage 2000 provides a visual display indicating that publishing is taking place. 

Synchronize files via FTP. In FrontPage 98, if you published a site and the publish destination directory had extra files that did not exist in your source directory, FrontPage only asked if you wanted to delete these files if you were publishing to a server via FrontPage Server Extensions. Now in FrontPage 2000, this "synchronize" feature works if you are publishing your site via FTP as well.