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Microsoft FrontPage is a
sophisticated Web authoring tool, which includes a
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editor,
giving you the ability to create impressive web pages
without needing to know the intricacies of the HTML
formatting language. FrontPage can edit existing web
pages or create new ones from scratch. It also contains
a 'wizard' utility which can create an entire site for
you based on your answers to plain English questions. We
support virtually all of the Microsoft Frontpage
"server extensions", including all of the web
management and publishing capabilities, and all of the
standard Microsoft "WebBots" which can be used
to add additional functionality to your web site. We do
not support ASP pages, ODBC and SQL database
connections. This requires an NT server and our servers
are Unix based.
Before you can use FrontPage with
your Fijihosting account, you must activate the
FrontPage extensions for your account. To do so, follow
these simple steps. To report any problems enabling
Microsoft FrontPage for your account, please contact
weblink @ fijihosting.com.
Steps to enable Microsoft FrontPage
with your virtual server:
1. Login to your "member
services" section.
2. Choose Configure FrontPage
Extensions from the main menu.
3. On the next screen, click the
Submit button at the bottom of the page to submit your
changes. You will see a confirmation screen telling you
that the changes have been made, and that Microsoft
Frontpage has been enabled for use with your Domain
name. That's all there is to it!
When you enable Microsoft Frontpage
extensions for your Domain name, several directories and
new files are created in your directory . Please do not
edit, delete, move, or rename any of these files or
directories. Doing so will probably cause FrontPage to
break and not work correctly with your account. Any
directory beginning with "_vti" contains
important files which are needed to utilize Microsoft
Frontpage with your account.
Using Microsoft FrontPage with
Fijihosting is the same as when you created the original
web site content on your local machine through the
Personal Web Server. Once you have published your web,
when you start up FrontPage, you have the ability to
open the version of the web on your local machine, or
the remote version on our server. If you select to open
the version on our server, you can open, edit, and save
files directly to our server. Making changes directly to
the files on does have advantages as far as ease and
speed, but we generally recommend that you manage your
site by making changes locally and uploading your
changes. The advantage of this is that you will always
have a local copy of your files, and you will not need
to have a continuous connection to the Internet while
modifying your site.
Publishing your web site with
FrontPage Explorer is fairly easy. Before you start,
make sure that you have configured your account to be
FrontPage enabled, and that your domain name is
currently active. can proceed by following these
steps:
1. Open FrontPage Explorer.
2. Open the FrontPage web located on
your local machine that you intend to publish to your
domain.
3. Select "Publish FrontPage
Web..." from the file menu.
4. At this point you will be
presented with a dialog box.
5. FrontPage will start publishing,
and you will be prompted for a username and password.
Enter your Fijihosting username and password and click
OK.
That should be it. At this point
FrontPage publishes your site to your Fijihosting
account online. If you are not publishing for the first
time, or you are publishing a sub web, the steps are
essentially the same. If you have problems with this
procedure, (such as FrontPage invoking the Web
Publishing Wizard instead of publishing) take a look at
trouble shooting section below.
The advantage of using FrontPage for
creating and publishing your site is the ease with which
such tasks can be done. However, as with any program,
there are commonly made mistakes to watch out for. Here
are some simple tips that can help you prevent the most
common snags when using Microsoft FrontPage.
| Make sure that you have an
Internet connection when you attempt to publish your
site. If you do not have an Internet connection
established, FrontPage will invoke the Microsoft
Publishing Wizard or possibly report other errors.
If this happens, cancel the publishing procedure,
establish an Internet connection, and try
again. |
| Do not attempt to use the
Microsoft Publishing Wizard to publish your site. It
is surprisingly difficult to use, and can
potentially cause problems with your FrontPage web.
Instead, publish through the FrontPage Explorer
which is easier to use in comparison. |
| Do not use FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) to publish your site. FrontPage expects
that webs will be published through the FrontPage
Explorer. If you use FTP, components of your web (webbots
in particular) may not function properly. |
| When publishing your pages, list
your domain in lower-case letters such as:
membername.fijihosting.com
Normally domain names are not case-sensitive, but
using upper-case letters when publishing may not
work properly. |
| If you have installed AOL
(American OnLine) software after installing
FrontPage, FrontPage may not function properly,
automatically invoking the Microsoft Publishing
Wizard when you attempt to publish, or possibly
reporting other errors. If you experience this, you
will need to reinstall the FrontPage Personal Web
Server. |
| If your web browser uses proxy
settings in order to get out on the web then you
will need to enter those setting in Frontpage
configuration as well. To do so, go to
Tools=>Options=>Proxies and enter the http
proxy in the following format:
proxyatyourISP.com:port_Number |