MS FrontPage 2000 Tutorial

Note: When working with sites on the outreach.missouri.edu server, you should normally be working directly, keeping the most current files on the server. They are backed up every night.  There may be some exceptions when you want to create a site on your hard drive first,  using FrontPage, then upload the site and subsequent changes to the server. In this situation, you would be updating the files on your web site, then once in awhile sending updates to the server. Because the definitive versions are on your personal computer, if someone else logs into the web site and makes changes, they will be lost the next time you upload your changes, the other person's will be lost. That's why we recommend that everyone work directly on the files on the web site, so multiple people can make changes.

If you need to use the hard drive method of publishing, however, below are directions for doing so and uploading changes to the web site.

 

Using the same basic method, you can connect to your hard drive, letting FrontPage treat it as a Web. This way, you can develop documents on your hard drive until they are ready to be "published" to the Web.

Be sure you have already created a folder such as C:\webstuff on your hard drive. You can use the Windows Explorer to create this folder.

To connect to a folder on your hard drive Web, repeat steps 2-5 above. Then:

1. When you get to the "Open FrontPage Web" screen, type a hard drive location into the box below "Select a Web server or disk location." An example would be: C:\webstuff\
2. If this is the first time you have connected to this folder, FrontPage will warn you that it needs to convert the directory to a Web. (click OK) Then it will open the Web so you see files and folders.

When creating pages on your hard drive, it's a good idea to keep all your files together in one folder, or duplicate EXACTLY the folder structure that you will have on the server. Otherwise, when you move your pages out to the Web server, your links and images may be broken.

When you want to publish pages on your hard drive out to the Web server:

1. Open your hard drive Web as described above. If you work on any pages, make sure they are saved.
   
2. In the FP Explorer, click FILE à  Publish FrontPage Web
   
3. In the box below the sentence, "Please specify the location…." You must type the exact location where you want the pages to go, including your Web name and any subdirectory names within it that you require. For example: you have a newsletter that you have worked on and saved in your hard drive Web. You want to send it to a newsletter subdirectory on your county Web on the UO/E server. In the box you would type:
   outreach.missouri.edu/countyname/newsletters/
   (Where countyname is the name of your Web -- i.e. boone)
   
   Note: You must use FORWARD slashes (/ ) in the destination address. Do not put a check in the box next to SSL.
   

4. In the "Publish" screen, you can specify whether to send all your pages out to the server every time (default), or check the box to only send the pages that have changed since the last time you published.
   
5. Provide your user name and password when prompted.

Once your files are out on the server in your FrontPage Web, you can use the FrontPage Explorer to organize your files into multiple folders.

 

Note: Once your pages are transferred out to the server, all the links SHOULD work properly, but be certain to check and make sure they do. You may need to fix some links if they still point to a hard drive location.

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Kate Akers, kate@oseda.missouri.edu Webmaster, University Outreach and Extension Last modified: 08/27/02