I. Using the FrontPage Explorer
Introduction
The FrontPage Explorer is much like the Windows Explorer. It allows you to manage your files graphically, including drag & drop to move files between folders.
In addition to this, the FrontPage Explorer understands the relationships between Web pages within your FrontPage Web and keeps them in tact. This means that when you move or rename files within your Web, the FP Explorer will automatically fix hyperlinks within your pages to accommodate the changes.
Important: You need to leave the FrontPage Explorer open and running while you are working on your pages in the Editor in order to keep your connection to the server open. You can minimize the Explorer so it appears as a button on your START bar until needed. Click the button on the START bar to restore the Explorer to the desktop.
To connect to your FrontPage Web on the University Outreach and Extension Web server:
- Make sure you are connected to the Internet, either via a direct connection, or a PPP dial-up connection.
- Open the FrontPage Explorer.
The first screen you see should be called "Getting Started." If it is anything else, click cancel then click FILE à Open FrontPage Web - Click the radio button next to "Open an Existing FrontPage Web"
- If you see the name of the Web you want in the list, select it and click OK. Otherwise:
- Click "More Webs." This will take you to the "Open
- FrontPage Web" screen.
- In the box below "Select a Web server or disk location," type the name of the server you will connect to. If your account is on the UO/E server, the address will be outreach.missouri.edu
- Click "List Webs." A list will appear in the box below, but it may take a minute or so.
- Scroll down until you find that Web name that you want, then select it and click OK.
- Enter your user name and password when prompted.
- On the left-hand side of the Explorer, click the "Folders" icon to put you in Folders view.
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.
To create and connect to a hard drive Web, repeat steps 2-6 above. Then:
- 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\
- If the Web is not yet created, FrontPage will warn you that it needs to convert the directory to a Web. Then it will open the Web so you see files and folders.
Publishing to the Web server from your hard drive Web
Once you created and saved some pages on your hard drive, you will want to publish pages out to the web where they will be accessible to the world. The FrontPage Explorer provides an easy way to do this with the "Publish FrontPage Web" feature. To publish pages from your hard drive out to the Web, do the following steps:
- Open your hard drive Web as described above. If you work on any pages, make sure they are saved.
- In the FP Explorer, click FILE à Publish FrontPage Web
- 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. - Provide your user name and password when prompted.
Your pages will be 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.
