Logging in to your county web site with FP 2003

Below are instructions for logging in to your MU Extension web site to edit pages via MS FrontPage. Please follow these instructions and login BEFORE you try to edit a page.

Technical note:
On the Internet Explorer (web browser) tool bar, you may have a button  called "Edit in MS Office FrontPage".  If you are looking at your web page and click this button, it opens your page in FP, but it does not log you in to the site. So any changes you make cannot be saved until you've logged in. It also takes this page directly from your browser cache, rather than from the server, so it breaks all the server side includes that are built into the pages. This may be more of an explanation than you needed, but the short answer is, PLEASE login using this procedure BEFORE you start editing pages.

Open MS FrontPage first -- Start -> All Programs -> MS Office -> MS FrontPage
1.  Choose File --> Open Site...

2. In the "Site name" box at the bottom of the screen, type or pate in the full URL For your web site, starting with http://
   ie http://extension.missouri.edu/adair/
Please note that as of March 27, 2007 you must use the domain name "extension.missouri.edu" (before /adair).  "outreach" will no longer work when logging in through FP.

3.  Click OPEN
4.  When prompted, use your e-mail ID and password to log in.
      NOTE:  Use your domain name AND user ID in the ID field.
       Example: um-users\doej   OR umc-users\doej
         If you work in a county office, or were previously part of the UM System (before the merger), then your domain name is UM-USERS. If you are on the Columbia campus and have always used @missouri.edu in your e-mail address, then you are in the UMC-USERS domain.
  

Once you have logged into your web site through FrontPage, the next time you open FrontPage the address for your site will be listed under "My network places."

IMPORTANT:  By default, FrontPage is configured so that each time you open FrontPage it will automatically log you into the last web site you were working in.  If you have allowed it to save your ID and password information, that will be submitted. If anyone else works at your computer, they would open FrontPage and be logged into your web site.  WE STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST THIS.

So please change your preferences in FrontPage so it does NOT automatically log you in. Here's how:

1. Click Tools -> Options
2. In the "General" tab, take the check OUT of the box next to:
   "Open last web site automatically when FrontPage starts"

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		Kate Akers  akersk@missouri.edu Last revised: 12/12/06