Publishing your website
Posted by abhijit on December 24th, 2009
Now you’ve created a good site, maybe or maybe not, with the help of the previous post. Now if you made your site online at any of the sites I mentioned, It is already published and ready for business. But if you made it using Microsoft Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver, you will have to publish it online.
Using FTP with Microsoft FrontPage
Source: Acme Internet technical Support
Microsoft FrontPage supports two methods of publishing files to a web server: HTTP POST and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). HTTP POST is the default publishing feature in Microsoft FrontPage (using the PUBLISH button), and the preferred method for uploading your Microsoft FrontPage created web site.
However, under certain circumstances you may want to use Microsoft FrontPage to transfer a file via FTP. You may need to use FTP for one of these reasons:
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The site you are uploading the file to does not support Microsoft FrontPage Server Extension-based publishing
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You are publishing a large file (over 1-2 megs) and are getting timeout errors publishing the file via Microsoft FrontPage publishing
To use Microsoft FrontPage to upload a web via FTP, perform the following steps:
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Open your web in Microsoft FrontPage Explorer
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Click FILE -> PUBLISH WEB
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Type in the destination FTP Server name in the location box in the form of:
ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com -
Choose whether you wish to publish all pages, or only changed pages since your last publishing session
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Click the PUBLISH button
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Enter your FTP username and password when prompted
Also see the Microsoft Tutorial: Using FrontPage 2003 to Publish with FTP
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC010405101033
THE BEST HOST???
The major question is, which is the best free host? Are there any absolutely free services available?
Well fortunately the answer is yes. There are quite a many services that are free. And what’s more, there are services for free WITHOUT ANY ADVERTS too. There are so many who claim to be that way, but the best I think is ByetHost. Most sites will recommend this service only to you. It’s free and advertisement free too. It comes with FTP support and it’s own uploader. Upload your files there and your site is ready to go.
In next webmasters post, we would be telling you about Widgets and where you can find them.