Publishing a disk based web (FrontPage 2002)

Open your disk based web within FrontPage and make sure all pages are closed.

GoTo File | Publish Web. In the 'Publish Destination' dialog box that pops up insert the location of the web server you wish to publish to (e.g. http://yourdomain.com/) and press OK.

A dialog box may appear asking if you want to create a web at that location, press OK to enable this to happen.

Next the 'Enter Network Password' dialog box will pop up. Type in the user name and password that were given to you by your host. To save you re-entering these next time you publish, tick the box marked 'Save this password in your password list'. This makes sure only authorized users can access your web server.

NOTE: Always keep a hard copy in case your computer crashes.

FrontPage will think about it for a while and after your user name and password have been verified by the web server the 'Publish web' dialog box will appear and fill up in the left pane with the site you're publishing FROM and in the right pane the server or drive you're publishing TO.

NOTE: Next time you publish the website the location will already be filled in for you. FrontPage will compare the remote files (the one's on the web server you're publishing TO) with the ones you are publishing FROM and will then transfer only files that have changed since the last time you published.

Before you press that Publish button click the Options button on the lower left hand side. Click the Publish Tab and, since this is the first time you have published, make sure the 'All pages, overwriting all pages already on destination' radio button is selected.

NOTE: Next time you publish make sure the 'Changed pages only' radio button is selected, though it should be. Thereafter you can ignore this feature, unless you need to change the status.

In the same 'Publish' Tab under 'Changes' the 'Determine changes by comparing source and destination webs' radio button is selected by default, or you can change this to the 'Use source file timestamps to determine changes since publish'. This means FrontPage will look at the local publish logs and publish any updated pages since the last publish date.

NOTE: Be aware that if your sharing uploading with anyone else it can cause problems as the most recent files might not be the correct files. It is best to use the default option.

You can choose to 'log changes during publish', which I think is a good idea. Sometimes you need to check if files have been published or deleted.

When you have completed your Option selections press OK.

NOW you can press that publish button.

The 'Publish Web' dialog box will disappear and a box comes up that shows the progress as your files are uploading. The time this takes depends on the size of the web you're uploading and the speed of your connection.

Once your transfer is complete, FrontPage gives you two choices of:

Click here to view your published site
Click here to view your publish log file

Clicking either will open up your web browser to display the site or the log. You can then press 'Done'.-- Make sure you do this before logging off from the internet.

NOTES:
1. FrontPage 2002 allows you to continue editing pages while it is publishing.
2. If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.