CREATING YOUR WEB SITE WITH FRONT PAGE 2002

Open a web

Important: As of January, 2003 and the new site launch, site authors no longer need to use a local copy of their sites (p: drive or local machine). All authors should work 'live'. Here are the instructions to open your website for edit directly on the web server.

• To open a web on the DePauw web server, browse to your site in Internet Explorer and click the Edit with FrontPage button (also located in the File menu). When prompted, enter your username and password.
  
  

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• To open a web on the DePauw web server, open frontpage, go to the File menu, click Open Web.
  In the Web Name box type the URL to that web, and then click Open.
  For example, to open the Web Authors site, you would type: http://www.depauw.edu/weba.
  When prompted, enter your username and password. in the Web Name box. This allows you to edit your "live" site, without importing and publishing from a local computer.

Save changes to a web

When editing live, saving changes to your web is simple: just click Save. That's it! The changes will take effect on the live site immediately, so be sure you want them to be reflected on the public site.

If you want to build a page over time, or save changes for review before making them public, place them in a subfolder in your site called "test". For example, the test area of the Web Authors site would be at http://www.depauw.edu/weba/test . Pages in test folders can still be previewed in a browser, but are excluded from the site search engine, preventing accidental discovery by visitors. When you're ready to make the page live, drag it out of the test folder and create the appropriate links to it.

Publish a web

Important: As of January, 2003 and the new site launch, site authors no longer need to use Publish to update their sites. All authors should edit their sites on the live server, as per instructions above in "Open a web".

Publish the files in the current web when you are ready to present your web for public viewing, or when you want to update the files in your web on the DePauw web server. When you publish your web, you have the following options:

• Publish only the files that have changed: FrontPage compares the files on your computer to the files on the Web server, and only those files that are newer than those on the Web server are published. However, files that have been marked Don't Publish will not be published.
• Publish all files, except those that have been marked Don't Publish:  The files from the local web will overwrite all files on the destination Web server, even if the files on the Web server are newer.
• Publish subwebs: If the current web has subwebs, all files and folders in subwebs will be recursively published in addition to those files and folders in the current web.

1. On the File menu, click Publish Web.
   
   
    
2. Click Options to see the list of options.
   
    

3. Specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages and click OK.
4. To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.
5. In the Specify the location to publish your web to box, type the location of a Web server, click the arrow to select a location to which you have published before, or click Browse to find the publishing location.
6. Click Publish.

Tip   After FrontPage publishes your web,  you can verify that your web was successfully published by browsing to it using the "View published web" option.