Publishing Your Pages

FrontPage can publish your web site to many different types of web servers, including those with special FrontPage-enabled extensions installed. If you are using advanced features such as interactive forms or message boards, it is usually necessary that you publish your pages to one of these special FrontPage servers. Angelfire and Tripod both allow you free access to FrontPage servers. However, FrontPage can also publish your web site using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), and to another location on your computer or a computer on a network.

1. To publish a web site, first make sure all pages are saved. Then click the File menu and choose Publish Site .

2. You will be presented with a window like the one below. Choose your server type and check your settings, although many times the default settings under the Optimize HTML and Publishing tabs will be acceptable for your needs. The example below shows a site hosted by Tripod, using Tripod's FrontPage services.

Note that you can also publish to the School of Education web server via FTP by adding the following as the Remote Web Site Location: ftp://literacy.calumet.purdue.edu.

3. After entering any necessary name and password and connecting to the server, FrontPage will show you what will be published from your computer in the left-hand window, and what is already in your remote web site in the right-hand window. Make sure you will not be overwriting any files on the remote site that you do not wish to delete, then click the Publish Web Site button at the bottom of the screen.

Depending on the speed of your Internet connection and the amount of data you need to transmit, this process could take anywhere from a few minutes to nearly an hour. Be patient, especially when dealing with free services such as Angelfire and Tripod, which are in heavy use by many people almost all the time.

4. When you are finished, visit your Internet URL in a web browser (example: http://www.tripod.com/username) to see what your completed web page looks like and to try your animations and hyperlinks.