A: There are a number of steps you have to go through in order
to put a copy of your Front Page Web Site on your home computer.
- Install Front Page, including the personal web server
- Open Front Page Explorer and create an empty site. This is where you will keep the
working, off-line copy of your web site.
- Connect to the internet
- Click Start, run, type "winipcfg," click "OK"
- Get your dialup ip from the "IP Address Field"
- Open Front Page Explorer to your current site on our server
- Click Publish
- Enter "http://(ip address optained in step 5)/(sitename
from step 2)."
The site will publish correctly as long as the steps above are followed in the order
their specified. Once the site is published to your home computer, you can then work
on making changes and updating the site from home without being connected.
Publishing FrontPage-Extended Webs
When you publish a FrontPage-extended web, you make it available to site visitors for browsing from a Web server either on the Internet or on an intranet. The Internet and intranets typically use different methods of publishing.
Publishing to the Internet
In Internet publishing, the most common method is for an author to create a FrontPage-extended web on the client computer. Then, when the web is completed and tested, the author publishes it to an Internet service provider's Web server by using the Publish Web command in the FrontPage client. Authoring on a local Web server or file system is efficient because it does not require authors to be connected to an Internet service provider while they work on a FrontPage-extended web.
The Publish Web command copies the FrontPage-extended web from a source Web server (or from a client computer's file system) to a destination Web server in batch mode. By default, only new or changed pages and files are copied. Pages and files deleted from the source web are also deleted from the destination web.
When an author publishes a FrontPage-extended web using the Publish Web command, the home page is renamed, if necessary, to match the naming convention on the destination Web server. Also, all FrontPage-based components in the FrontPage-extended web are regenerated to take advantage of platform-specific functionality. For example, when a FrontPage-extended web is published to an IIS server containing Microsoft Index Server, any search forms in the web are configured to use the Index Server.
