Re: How do I publish a website I created to the internet?

From: Bob Lehmann (nospam_at_dontbotherme.zzz)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:01:42 -0600

Uh, yeah??

Did you need someone to read it to you?

Bob Lehmann

"Chuck Davis" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17a501c4af24$b4ad3470$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> From FrontPage HELP
> About publishing files and folders
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> Important When you publish the files in your Web site in
> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, be aware that there are
> two kinds of Web sites: a local Web site and a remote Web site:
>
> The local Web site is the source Web site that is open in
> FrontPage. A local Web site can be stored on either a local
> hard disk drive or a server.
> The remote Web site is the destination site to which you
> are publishing. Similarly, a remote Web site can be stored
> on either a local hard disk drive (if it is acting as a Web
> server, as in the case of http://localhost) or a remote Web
> server.
>
> Overview of publishing a Web site
>
> When you publish a Web site, you move all or a selected
> group of the files and folders that make up the site from
> one location to another. In Office FrontPage 2003, you
> publish your site when you want to make it available for
> site visitors, when you want to make a backup copy of your
> site, or when you want to update a published site with new
> content.
>
> Generally, you create files and folders for your Web site
> on your computer. When you are ready to let site visitors
> see your site on the World Wide Web or on your
> organization's intranet, you publish them to a Web server
> that is maintained by a server administrator or an Internet
> service provider (ISP) (ISP: A business that provides
> access to the Internet for such things as electronic mail,
> chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web. Some ISPs are
> multinational, offering access in many locations, while
> others are limited to a specific region.). Now site
> visitors can view your Web pages by using a Web browser.
>
> There may be times when you want to make a copy of your Web
> site and then save it to a particular location on your hard
> disk drive or on a network drive. The publishing feature in
> FrontPage is a convenient way to make a backup copy.
>
> When you update your Web site with new files or folders,
> FrontPage uses specific terms to distinguish between the
> source site and the destination site. A local Web site is
> the source Web site that is open in FrontPage, and a remote
> Web site is the destination site to which you are publishing.
>
> Using Remote Web Site view to publish
>
> You can publish in both directions when in Remote Web Site
> view, where files move easily between local and remote
> locations. This can be most helpful when you are updating a
> site you have already published.
>
> Remote Web Site view displays icons, with descriptive text,
> in both the local and remote Web site panes to indicate the
> publish status of your files.
>
> You can use Remote Web Site view to publish your files to
> any location. You can publish your site to an extended Web
> server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages and
> responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP
> server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with
> http://.), to Web servers that support File Transfer
> Protocol (FTP) (FTP: A communication protocol that makes it
> possible for a user to transfer files between remote
> locations on a network. This protocol also allows users to
> use FTP commands, such as listing files and folders, to
> work with files on a remote location.) or Web-based
> Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) (WebDAV: An
> application protocol for publishing and managing files on
> the World Wide Web. It provides support for storing
> information about a file, so authors can change a file and
> its properties without overwriting other changes to that
> file.), or to a location on your computer.
>
> Deciding where to publish
>
> Before you can publish your files to the destination site,
> you must set the Remote Web Site Properties to reflect the
> remote Web site.
>
> Publish files and folders to an extended Web server
>
> In Microsoft FrontPage, an extended Web server is one that
> is running FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions from Microsoft
> or later, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, or
> SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft.
>
> There are several benefits to publishing to a Web server
> that is running the FrontPage Server Extensions (FrontPage
> Server Extensions: A set of programs and scripts that
> support authoring in FrontPage and extend the functionality
> of a Web server.) or Windows SharePoint Services. Your Web
> site will have enhanced functionality when it is published,
> allowing you to use form handlers (form handler: A program
> on a server that is executed when a site visitor submits a
> form. A form in FrontPage is associated with a form
> handler.) and hit counters (Hit Counter component: A
> component in FrontPage that keeps track of the number of
> visitors to a World Wide Web site.). FrontPage will also
> maintain your files and hyperlinks (hyperlink: Colored and
> underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a
> file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide
> Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go
> to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) each
> time you publish the Web site.
>
>
> Important When you are publishing or synchronizing between
> Web sites based on SharePoint Services, certain elements,
> including list data, schemas, and Web Parts, will not be
> transferred.
>
>
> Publish files and folders to a server that supports WebDAV
> or FTP
>
> You can publish files and folders in your Web site to
> servers that support Web-based Distributed Authoring and
> Versioning (WebDAV) (WebDAV: An application protocol for
> publishing and managing files on the World Wide Web. It
> provides support for storing information about a file, so
> authors can change a file and its properties without
> overwriting other changes to that file.) or File Transfer
> Protocol (FTP) (FTP: A communication protocol that makes it
> possible for a user to transfer files between remote
> locations on a network. This protocol also allows users to
> use FTP commands, such as listing files and folders, to
> work with files on a remote location.). Multiple users can
> use Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver to edit
> the same site over FTP. It's important to note that in most
> cases the source control functionality in FrontPage is
> turned off by default. When you turn source control on, do
> not regard it as a secure file-locking mechanism.
> FrontPage also supports passive FTP. Passive FTP allows you
> to publish files and folders from the local Web site to the
> remote Web site by using a different port (port: One of the
> network input/output channels of a computer running TCP/IP.
> On the World Wide Web, it usually refers to the port number
> a server is running on. One computer can have many Web
> servers running on it, but only one server can run on a
> port.) each time.
>
> When you use Remote Web Site view to publish your files or
> folders to a server that supports FTP or WebDAV, you must
> know the server name as well as your user name and
> password. If you are unsure about your user name, password,
> or server location, contact your Internet service provider
> (ISP: A business that provides access to the Internet for
> such things as electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the
> World Wide Web. Some ISPs are multinational, offering
> access in many locations, while others are limited to a
> specific region.) (ISP) or Web site administrator.
>
> Publish files and folders to a local hard disk drive or server
>
> You can publish the files and folders in your Web site to a
> folder on your local file system or to a UNC (universal
> naming convention (UNC): A naming convention for files that
> provides a machine-independent means of locating the file.
> Rather than specifying a drive letter and path, a UNC name
> uses the syntax \\server\share\path\filename.) path. For
> example, you can make a backup copy of your entire Web site
> by publishing it to a new disk-based location, such as
> C:\Backup.
>
> Publishing files and folders rather than just copying them
> ensures that they will maintain their structure and that
> the Microsoft FrontPage components (component: A built-in
> FrontPage object that is evaluated and executed when an
> author saves the page or, in some cases, when a site
> visitor goes to the page. Most components generate HTML.
> Components include search forms, and Save Results form
> handlers.) on your Web pages will work.
>
> Choosing the files to publish
>
> By default, all files are marked for publishing. By using
> Remote Web Site view in Microsoft FrontPage, you can choose
> which files will be published and which will be held back.
> There are some files that you should not republish. For
> example, if your Web site has a guest book, republishing
> the guest book file will cause it to be replaced by a blank
> file. Other examples include pages with a hit counter (Hit
> Counter component: A component in FrontPage that keeps
> track of the number of visitors to a World Wide Web site.)
> or discussion Web sites.
>
> Synchronizing files between sites
>
> In collaborative work environments, multiple authors may
> update both the local and remote Web sites. Microsoft
> FrontPage will compare the files in the local Web site to
> the published files in the remote Web site.
>
> The following scenarios are examples of situations in which
> local and remote versions of files require that you
> synchronize them:
>
> You publish to a staging server to test the files before
> making them visible to the public.
> You change a file directly on the remote site, leaving the
> local version of that file out of date.
> Two people, one working on a local version of the Web site
> and one working directly on the remote Web site, update
> their respective versions of the same file.
> Two people, working with copies of the same Web site on
> their own computers, make changes to the same sets of
> files, and both want to publish to the remote site.
> If FrontPage detects a newer version of a file on your
> local Web site, it will begin a synchronization to update
> both the local and remote Web sites unless you specify
> otherwise. You can also choose to publish from the remote
> Web site to your local Web site.
>
> Security When you synchronize files using the Remote Web
> Site view, files on the remote site will be downloaded to
> the local site. If malicious files were placed on the
> remote site, the local site may be at risk. Be sure that
> only trusted users have access to the remote site before
> you attempt to synchronize files.
>
> Managing the files on the Web server
>
> If your Internet service provider (ISP: A business that
> provides access to the Internet for such things as
> electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web.
> Some ISPs are multinational, offering access in many
> locations, while others are limited to a specific region.)
> (ISP) or system administrator has given you a size limit on
> the Web server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages
> and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an
> HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin
> with http://.), file management is a necessity.
> Periodically deleting unused or old files can keep the size
> of your Web site down.
>
> Because Microsoft FrontPage automatically synchronizes the
> files on your local hard disk drive, you must first delete
> or move the files or folders on your local Web site. After
> you publish your Web site, FrontPage will prompt you about
> deleting the same files on the Web server.
>
> If your Web server uses the FrontPage Server Extensions
> (FrontPage Server Extensions: A set of programs and scripts
> that support authoring in FrontPage and extend the
> functionality of a Web server.) from Microsoft or Microsoft
> Windows SharePoint Services, FrontPage can also match other
> actions on the Web server - such as moving or renaming
> files - the next time you publish your Web site. FrontPage
> will update your link bars (link bar: A collection of
> graphic or text buttons representing hyperlinks to pages
> both within your Web site and to external sites.), shared
> borders (shared borders: Page regions reserved for content
> that you want to appear consistently on all your Web pages.
> Shared borders usually contain link bars, which contain
> hyperlinks to the other pages and locations.), and
> hyperlinks (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a
> graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a
> file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an
> intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to
> Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) on the Web server to match
> the actions you performed on the local Web site.
>
> Notes
>
> On the View menu, if the Remote Web Site view option is
> unavailable (appears dimmed), verify that you have named
> and saved your Web page or site.
> Before you can publish or synchronize your Web files, you
> must set up a remote Web server type and remote Web site
> location in the Remote Web Site Properties dialog box.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am new at publishing websites to the internet. I have
> worked on maintenance
> >in an exisitng website using FrontPage 2000 but never
> posted one from
> >scratch. Is there a free tutorial or article I can get?
> >.
> >