Publish a Website in Microsoft Frontpage
This page contains information regarding how to start building your website and then publish it to the CS web server in the Microsoft Frontpage.
1.Select "File | New | Page or Web..." from the menu, as indicated below.
2. Choose "Empty Web" in the menu shown on the right side of your screen.
3. Choose "Empty Web" again in the pop-up window.
4. You will see something like below on your screen. The directory name here in the exampleis D:\Temp, yours could be different.
5. To create the first page of your website, Select "File | New | Page or Web..." and name it "index.html".
Notice: The name of the first (default) file of your website must be index.html, not index.htm or anything else.
6. Double click on the "index.html" file to open it for editing, ..., and save it by choosing "File | Save" after you are done.
7. To publish the site you just built onto our web server, select "File | Publish Web..."
8. Enter " ftp://cs.siu.edu/public_html" in the pop-up window, then click on the "OK" button.
9. Enter the CS account you were given and its password. The window below uses testid01 as an example, you should input your own CS account and password.
10. Then, click on the "Publish" button in the pop-up window to transfer your website to the CS web server.
11. To see what your page looks like on the Internet, launch a browser and type in the URL address of http://lab.cs.siu.edu/~your_CS_account_given.
The below shows the website done by the user, testid01.
