How to use Microsoft Front Page 2003 to "Publish" your website to the WeDoHosting.com Servers.

Step 1

With your existing website open on your hard drive, go into your "File" menu until it drops down. You will notice a "Publish Site" choice - click on that to bring up the next screen.

Step 2

A: Now Front Page 2003 will ask you for the publishing details. In most cases the first choice "Front Page or Sharepoint Services" will be selected.

B: In the field named "Remote Website Location" you will enter your domain name - including the "http://www" - NOTE - if you have not updated your domain name to the WeDoHosting.com servers - please use the following format:

http://yourdomainname.com.wedodns.com
(note - no "www" and the addition of wedodns.com)

C: Leave the Encrypted SSL option unchecked and choose "OK" from the bottom

Step 3

Your program will now connect to the web server and will ask you for a username and password. Please enter the ones provided when you signed up, of if you are not the person who signed up for the service, please refer to the setup instructions that were sent for this information.

Once that is entered, click on "Ok"

Step 4

In this step, Front Page 2003 will bring up the remote file manager interface. On the left hand side there is a listing of all your local files, and on the right hand side you will be looking at the files on the server.

To move your site to the server, select all the files on the left by clicking ONCE on the top folder, then holding down the "Shift" key on your keyboard and clicking one more time on the last file in the group - this should highlight all files as indicated in the screen shot to the right.

At this point you have 2 choices - you can choose from the "middle bar" from the top of the 3 buttons to publish your files to the remoter server, or optionally, from the bottom of the screen - make your publishing choice and choose "Publish Web Site"

Step 5

In most cases, if you have followed "standard" internet conventions, your main page will be named index.htm or index.html The WeDoHosting.com servers, by default install a regular index.htm placeholder page for you until your site is ready. In this instance Front Page has detected that and wants to know if it should overwrite the existing doc. In 99.99% of the time that would be a good thing.

If you do not get an error message or if your site still shows the "Coming Soon" page after you have published it, go into the right hand side of the screen and deleted the index.html file that our system placed there.

Step 6

Now that your site is uploaded you will note the addition of some folders on your local hard drive. Do not delete these as they are imperative to the operations of Front Page 2003 and are required to support it.

Watch for upcoming additional support topics related to Front Page 2003.