Earth First Front Page Help NZ

Welcome to Earth First, Frontpage help section

We highly recommend waiting for your domain to transfer before publishing with FrontPage.

Publishing a website built with FrontPage after your domain name has been transferred.Click Here

As FrontPage executable files such as hit counters, forms, and themes will not work until your domain name transfers over to the server, but if your eager to get your site online follow these steps below.

Publishing a website built with FrontPage before your domain name has been transferred.Click Here

1. After your site has been built and your ready to publish, click on "File" then click on "Publish Web".

2. Publishing with FrontPage before the domain transfers requires publishing via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) as opposed to HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocal). Use the IP address given to you via your confirmation. The IP address will simply be typed in the field in this format ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx were "x" is IP address numbers. Click on "publish" after entering in the IP address.

3. Enter your username and password you signed up with.

4. FrontPage will compare the files on your computer to the files on the server, the files on the server are the preinstalled files and scripts that come with the account including frontpage extensions themselves. Make sure you say "No" to each file. Since there are over 400 files clicking can take some time, so I recommend just holding down the "N" key.

5. If you have any FrontPage components such as themes, forms, and hit counters you will see a screen like this that says that FrontPage Server Extensions are not installed, do not worry your FrontPage extensions are installed it's just that FrontPage does not recognize them via "FTP". Click on "Continue"

6. When FrontPage is done publishing you will see this screen. If you click on "view your published website" you will get an error page if you dont have a static IP address.All our hosting has Ip address so you should not see this error Click done and view your published website via the URL included in your confirmation

7. If you have components installed that are FrontPage executables the will not work until your domain name transfers. Once it transfers over and you can view what you have published by going to your browser and typing in "www.yourdomain.com" you should open up the website via Root Web and then going to file "close". All your components and forms should now operate fine after doing this.

Publishing a website built with FrontPage after your domain name has been transferred.

If your domain name is fully transferred over to the server meaning that you can view the default index page via web browser, your ready to publish a fully operational website built with FrontPage. Please Note: Make sure you main introductory page in named "index.htm". If your main page is not, right click on the proper file and rename it "index.htm" all lowercase.

1. After your site has been built and your ready to publish, click on "File" then click on "Publish Web".

2. Type in your domain name in this format "http://yourdomain.com" then click "publish".

3. Type in your login name and password then click "ok".

4. After all the files have been transferred you should see this screen. Click on "view published website". You should see your website provided your main page is named "index.htm"