Getting your site FrontPage ready

To get the FrontPage server extensions installed to your account, just request them on Step 1 of the account ordering process. Or, if you've already established your hosting account with us, simply log into the Control Panel where you can get FrontPage extensions added to your account in the Site Toolbox area.

Creating your FrontPage 98 web site

1. After you have installed FrontPage to your workstation, open the program from your Start, Programs menu in Windows.
2. As FrontPage is opening, you'll be presented with a Getting Started menu. Double click on My Web if it appears in the list or click to Start a New FrontPage Web.
3. You will now be in the FrontPage Explorer part of FrontPage 98. Explorer is how you move around, and Editor is where you will edit your files. (These have been combined into one window in FrontPage 2000).
4. Click on New Page in FrontPage Explorer to start with a blank page.
5. Once the new page opens, you can start entering text or go up to the toolbar to change the text colors, etc. just like you can in any other MS Office application.
6. Once you have tried a few different things out, right-click anywhere in the new page you've been working in. Choose Page Properties...
7. Here you can change the page title, that appears on the web browser's toolbar when you view your web pages, the background color, link colors, etc.
8. If you want to use a "theme" that was included with the application, close out of the Properties window and open FrontPage Explorer (from the bar at the bottom of your computer screen that shows what applications you have open). Select Themes view (clickable on the left-hand side of the window). Select the theme you like best, or not one at all, and click okay.
9. Go to the File drop down menu in FrontPage Editor when done with the page, and choose Save As... Save your file. You will want to save your files to the default directory that appears under Sage As... unless you have used FrontPage before and understand how subwebs and webs work on your PC.
10. When ready to start a new page, go to the File drop down menu in FrontPage Editor, and select New Page. If you implemented a theme in the earlier step, you'll notice the theme appears automatically in the new page. If you did not, you will need to manually configure the way the page looks.
11. You can link the pages together by going to the Navigation view (clickable on the left-hand side of the FrontPage window) in FrontPage Explorer and clicking on the files and dragging and dropping them together.
12. Once you've created several pages, and are ready to practice publishing, read the next section.
13. Remember: Practice makes perfect. Once you start to play around with the program a lot, you'll learn about the many new and cool things that you can add to your site, like message boards, forms, images, links, etc.
14. You can always buy an additional book on getting started with FrontPage if the manual does not contain enough detail.

Publishing your FrontPage 98 web site

Once you are done building your pages or making changes to existing ones, you are ready to publish. The steps below are the same steps you will take every time you need to publish your web or make changes to it.

1. Connect to the Internet. (Do this before opening FrontPage. If FrontPage is already open close it down, connect, then reopen it).
2. If you don't already have FrontPage Explorer open, open it, and go to File, Open FrontPage Web to open the web site that you would like to publish. (The web should be already saved to your PC).
3. Once the web is open, go to File, Publish FrontPage Web. (Do not click on the Publish button on the toolbar, it does not publish correctly).
4. Enter in either your site's web address or IP address that were sent to you when you signed up the account. If you know that your domain is already active (it's propagated) then you will likely want to enter www.[insertyourdomain.com] into the field.
5. Then click Publish.
6. As long as your FrontPage application locates your web address on the Internet and verifies that the FrontPage server extensions are installed (see the "Getting your site FrontPage ready" section on this page), you will then be prompted for the username and password for your account.
7. Enter in both the username and password exactly as they were sent to you. Our web servers are case sensitive.
8. After you have done this, you will see the pages start to publish to the site. You can view the status at the lower-left hand corner of FrontPage Explorer.
9. When the publishing is done, you can go into your web browser, enter in your site's web address and see the web.
10. If you want to make any changes, just go back into FrontPage Explorer/Editor, make the changes and publish again as outlined above.