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Publishing Your Web Pages with FrontPage

The documentation provided with Microsoft FrontPage describes how to publish your web site. It is a very simple process once you have checked that you can 'connect' successfully to your web site. Before trying to publish your web site we recommend you perform this quick test to verify you have configured everything correctly:

Checking your web site

Dial up and connect to TelstraClear.
Once you are connected, launch the Microsoft FrontPage Explorer.
From the 'File' menu of the FrontPage Explorer, select 'Open FrontPage Web...'.

A dialogue box will open prompting you for the name of the web to open (the exact dialogue box you see depends on the version of FrontPage you are using, check your documentation if you are unsure).

Enter your web site name which will be something like "www.shoerax.co.nz". Obviously, replace the shoerax with your domain name.

Once you have entered your web site name and clicked 'OK', there will be a brief pause while FrontPage connects to your web site.

If the connection is successful, you will be prompted for the FrontPage Administrator user-id and password. This is the user-id you entered and wrote down while you were setting up your web site. Enter the user-id and password and click the 'OK' button.
If the connection is not successful check that:
1. Your dial-up connection is connected to TelstraClear
2. You have waited until 2 PM of the following business day since the activation of your web site.
3. You have entered the correct web site name.
4. You have entered the correct FrontPage Administrator user-id and password.
5. You don't have any proxy settings enabled in FrontPage.
Once you have verified your connection you can publish your web site.

The FrontPage documentation describes the different ways to publish your web site. You can edit your web site 'live' or create and edit it on a local web server (also called a "staging" server) and then publish your entire site when it is complete. This second method is recommended for two reasons:
1. There will be less disruption to people browsing your site. If you are editing 'live', web pages will be changing as you edit. This can lead to unpredictable results for people browsing your site.
2. If you edit on a local web server and then publish, you always have a backup copy of your web site. You can also experiment with different things without affecting your published web site. Once you have the 'look' you require, go ahead and publish to your live TelstraClear web site.