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Your Temporary Web Server

Each of you will be assigned a hosting space to use temporarily while you are in the class and for about 45 days afterwards.  I will have to remove your web site from these sites before I teach my next class in the coming term.  Until then, they are yours to use as you develop your site.

You will be publishing to a subdomain of my WyzGuys.net domain.  Each of you will be assigned a number.  The web site address of your site will be in the form http://xxx.wyzguys.net, where xxx is replaced with your own assigned number.

Publishing Your Website To The Web Hosting Server

The easiest way to publish your Web site is through the Publish feature in FrontPage 2003 to a server with FrontPage Server Extensions installed on it. You can also publish via FTP using either FrontPage 2003's Publish function or a third-party FTP program.

Once you are ready to publish your site, you need only to select Publish Site from the File Menu or click on the Publish icon.  Click on File, Publish Site, or the Publish icon.  If you have made changes, FrontPage will ask if you want to save the changes.  Click Yes.  The Web Site tab will come to the foreground in the Remote Web Site view.

The Remote Web Site Properties dialog box will open.  If this does not open automatically, click on the Remote Web Site Properties link at the top of the left pane.  There are 3 tabs in the dialog box. Remote Web Site Tab - this allows you to choose your publication method and server destination address.  You can choose FrontPage or SharePoint Services, WebDAV, FTP, or File System Optimize HTML Tab - allows you to optimize your code for the quicker page loading. Publish Tab - allows you to selection between publishing the entire site, or changed pages only. Notice the options available on the Remote Web Site Tab.  Select FrontPage.  Enter the Web address that you wish to publish your Web site to, http://www.xxx.wyzguys.net , where the xxx sign is replaced by your assigned student number.

When the password dialog opens enter the user ID and password you were supplied to enter the site. As mentioned previously, when you publish to your our hosting site the person in charge of your host should provide similar information to you. If the site you use has FrontPage Server Extensions installed, a simple entry of your login and password is all that is required. FrontPage will do the rest. You should be looking at the Publish Window pane, like the one below.  At this point the Local Web Site, on your computer, is on the left should have an address of C:\My Documents\My Webs\Folder where the folder is named what you named it when we created the web site with the wizard.  The right side is the Remote Web Site, on the server, and the destination address should be http://www.xxx.wyzguys.net.

You may get a "web site does not exist...do you want to create one" message box.  FrontPage will add some files and folders to the empty web space to make it compatible with FrontPage Server Extensions.  Just click OK.

Find the Publish button in the lower right hand corner.  Before publishing, notice the radio button options:  Local to remote, remote to local, and Synchronize.  Select Local to remote.  Click on the Publish button.  If you see any Publishing FrontPage Components dialogs about FP Server Extensions simply click Continue or Overwrite Remote Files.  Your site is now on your web hosting server.

A green progress bar will crawl across the bottom of the publish window, and when it is finished, you can click on the middle link in the lower left hand corner, View you Remote Web site, and FrontPage will launch Internet Explorer and take you to your web site on the Internet.

Local and Remote Web Sites

The first thing to realize is this:  There are now two copies of your web site.  There is the one you designed on your computer, which is stored on the hard drive at c:/My Documents/ My Web Sites. And the other one you published to the hard drive of the web server which you see on the Internet.  At this point they are identical. 

Good web design practice is to make changes to your site on the local copy only, and publish changes to the Internet copy on the web server.  it is possible to use FrontPage to open the copy on the web server and edit it directly, live on the Internet.  For so many reasons, this is a bad idea.  First, any visitors to your site will see things change before their eyes, which will be a weird experience for them.  Second, if you make some kind of catastrophic mistake, and your site "breaks", it will be visible to everyone, and you will have to delete you entire remote web site before republishing.  Third, when you go back to your local copy and make changes, the change you made on the server will not be on the local copy, and when you publish, FrontPage will make an effort to synchronize the two sites, but the results may not be what you expected.

So the rule is: Edit locally, publish remotely.

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