Front Page Knowledge Base

Getting Started with Front Page

General Information

1. After you order your hosting plan and receive your IP address, go ahead and publish your Front Page web site to the IP address. Use the URL: http://myIPaddress Don't use the www. until after your domain is pointed to our server.

2. To access our Control Panel use http://myIPaddress/menu

3. After your domain is pointed to our server, then you will be able to access your site as: http://www.mydomainname.myextension and will be able to access the Control Panel with http://www.mydomainname.myextension/menu

4. If you are re pointing your domain name and have a website up on another server, be sure to go ahead and publish to your new IP address, so that you won't lose any of your web site information during the re pointing of the domain.

5. Don't name any pages index.htm, default.htm, or default.html - all of these will just cause you grief :)

NAME YOUR HOME PAGE: index.html

Install your Front Page Extensions

1. Go into the Control Panel and click on the Front Page ICON. Install the extensions. Do this before attempting to write your web page.

Open your site live from the server in your Front Page program

1. Open your Front Page program. Then, File, Open Web and where it says folder or web name type in: http://myIPaddress.com
2. Change the .com to the actual extension that you are going to use and myIPaddress to your actual IP address.

Publish to the Server

1. File, Save.That's it :) Go to your browser and type in http://yourIPaddress/index.html (replace that information with your information) and you'll see your file there that you just made.

Publish to your Hard Drive for your Back-Up

1. File, Publish Web, browser your hard drive and find where you want to publish the files to and click Publish changed pages only. Click Publish.

Make your first page

1. Click on Page, that's on the left side. Then, File, New, Page, Normal Page, OK. Now, you'll have a blank page to begin your web site.
2. Name this first page index.html

Turning a folder from your hard drive into a subweb

1. Create the subweb by doing File --> New -->Web .
2. Select "Import Web Wizard".
3. Specify the location of the new web: type in: http://www.yourdomainname.com/privateweb - Click ok.
4. If you are importing files from your hard drive, 'click on from a source directory of files on a local computer or network'
5. Click 'Browse' to locate the files on your computer - after locating them, click ok - click next, click next, click finish.

Turning a subweb from the internet into a subweb on your server space

1. Create the subweb by doing File --> New -->Web .
2. Select "Import Web Wizard".
3. Specify the location of the new web: type in: http://www.yourdomainname.com/privateweb - Click ok.
4. Click on where it says from a World Wide Web Site
5. Type in your location such as: http://www.mydomainname/myfolder - Click next.
6. Set any limits you need. Click next, Click finish.

Q: Why do I have trouble with using Front Page when it comes to time issues, like scheduled pictures and odd times showing up in my guest book or prayer line:

A: Our server is on military time and Front Page uses the standard time from your hard drive, which does not use military time.

I changed my password in the control panel and now I can't get to my site within my Front Page program!

That's because you'll just need to change your password in your Front Page program too :). Call up your Front Page program using the original password, then call up your web site. Go to tools, security and change the password from there. If you have trouble doing it this way, you can go into your control panel and click on the Front Page ICON and uninstall your Front Page extensions, wait 10 minutes and reinstall them. Be sure to have a back up of your web site before doing this. It will probably cause you to lose your shared borders when you do it this way :).

How to get your Front Page form to send info to your email:

1. Follow directions 1 thru 5 on this question:
I have a web site on your server and I'm trying to make a change and publish .......

2. Now that you have your form page open, right click on the form itself and click on form properties.

3. If there is something typed in there where it says Send to: File Name, delete that.

4. Then, make sure Send to is clicked on and type in your email address where it says email. Then click ok.

5. Now follow the rest of the directions on the question: I have a web site on your server and I'm trying to make a change and publish ....... and it will explain how to save your changes and "publish".

What should the form method look like in a Front Page form?

Publishing your site FROM the server TO your hard drive

The easiest way to copy your web site back to your hard drive for a back up is to do the following:

1. connect to the internet
2. open front page program
3. click on file, open web
4. where it says folder name - type in: http://www.YOURDomainNameGoesHere.com
5. click open
6. This will open your front page web site from the server
7. click on file, publish web, browse your hard drive and choose the folder to publish it to and then click publish.

How to make a Sub-Web

Click File
Click New
Click Web
Click Empty Web
Under: Options - specify the location of the new web: type in:
http://www.yourdomainname/subwebname
Click OK

Making the pages within the sub-web

Click File
Click New
Click Page
Click Normal Page
Click OK
Click File
Click Save As
Type in: Index.html
Click Save

This will give you your home page and it will be named index.html - do each additional page accordingly.

Front Page 2002: How to change your password in Front Page

You have to use FP to open the web ON THE SERVER. Then use Tools | Server | Change Password.

Front Page Counter

There is a counter that comes with Front Page. If you can't get the Front Page counter to work just by using their directions, you can use this code:

<font size="1" face="Arial Narrow"><img src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Image=3" alt="Hit Counter">
</font>

It will give you this type of counter:

[Hit Counter]To reset this counter, just right click on the hit counter, click on front page components, then set the counter and the number of digits. You can change the style of the counter from there also.