Cognoscis

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:

• The site you are uploading the file to does not support Microsoft FrontPage Server Extension-based publishing

• 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:

1. Open your web in Microsoft FrontPage Explorer

2. Click FILE -> PUBLISH WEB

3. Type in the destination FTP Server name in the location box in the form of:
   ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com

4. Choose whether you wish to publish all pages, or only changed pages since your last publishing session

5. Click the PUBLISH button

6. 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.

With so many E-mail clients these days, it gets confusing. Afterall, which one is the best? I did a little research. There are mainly 3 competitors: GMail, Windows Live Mail (Popularly known as Hotmail) and Yahoo! Mail. Each one has it’s own positives and negatives. Let’s take a look:

1. All 3 provide easy email domain name options. But with Cool Hotmail (A Part of Windows Live Mail), you can get a cool email domain name like DelhiRocks.com, ClubSachin.com, IAmAFreeBird.com, ILoveSoccer.in, Clickass.in and LOADS more. And Windows Live provides simple options like Live.com too.

Windows Live Mail wins Round One.

2. GMail and Yahoo! have their built-in-mail messengers. But with Yahoo!, if you are signed into Yahoo! Messenger, and you open your Yahoo! Mail Beta, you get signed out of your Messenger with a message “You have been signed out becuase you signed in on a different computer or device” which is clearly a bug. Though it may be due to security reasons, it is REALLY irritating. No such problem in GMail. No built-in-mail messenger in Windows Live Mail. You will have to download it.

GMail wins Round Two.

3. The Customizablity: All three have different colours and themes. Hotmail has the best themes, but they can make your mail loading slow.  GMail has various Google Gadgets you can put into your GMail sidebar. But in Windows Live, you can add people in your network and see their updates on your mail home page (which you can also disable). The page is complete with news and birthday reminders of people in your network. So no need for a social networking site.  And, I don’t think anybody has storage problems with any e-mail agent. There is better folder organisation in Windows Live. Though there are labels in GMail so that you assign multiple folder-types to a mail. You can surf GMail offline (input by Cognoscis).

Windows Live and Gmail are very close.

FINAL VERDICT: Gmail is really great. You can keep it simple or you can spice it up. It has built-in-mail messenger too. If you have Broadband, Windows Live Mail is amazing. It wins in Customizability and E-Mail Domain Name. Choose any of them or even choose both. Either way, Yahoo! Mail sucks. Yahoo! Mail doesn’t even have a decent spam guard. I win lotteries every day. Sigh!