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Microsoft FrontPage is a web site design and publishing application which allows
you to design your web pages using a user friendly graphical interface. It also
controls the uploading of your site to the Internet - there is no need to use a
separate FTP program (in fact using FTP may cause corruption
to the preinstalled FrontPage system files!).
FrontPage is particularly well suited to beginners, and allows the creation of a
quality web site quickly and easily, without the need for HTML coding or any other
specialised knowledge.
Installing FrontPage Extensions for your site does not install the Microsoft FrontPage
application on your local computer. FrontPage is a separate software application
which you will need to purchase and install on your computer if you wish to use it.
Microsoft FrontPage should not be used in combination with certain utilities in
the Control Panel. Once FrontPage Extensions have been
enabled for your account, you should use FrontPage to perform the following functions
rather than using the Control Panel options:
Mime Types
Web Protect (Password Protecting Folders)
More advanced users should also be aware that custom .htaccess files should
not be used with a FrontPage published site.
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In order to publish FrontPage created pages on your site, you will need the
FrontPage Extensions to be installed for your account.
If you didn't specify that you intended to use FrontPage when you filled out our
Order Form then you
will first need to contact
us to arrange for the installation of the FrontPage Extensions for your account.
In actual fact, it is possible to use FrontPage without the FrontPage Extensions
being installed, but you won't be able to benefit from many of the built in
features. For example, FrontPage generated forms will not work without the
Extensions. If, for some reason, you should decide to use FrontPage without the
Extensions, you will still be able to Publish your Web from within FrontPage, but
instead of Publishing in the normal way you will need to Publish to the address
ftp://www.yourdomain.co.uk/public_html/
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The home page of your site (sometimes called the default or index page) is the page you
wish to have displayed by default when visitors just type in your domain name, without
specifying the name of a particular page.
We recommend naming your home page index.htm as it will then automatically overwrite the
temporary "Welcome to the future home of..." placeholder page when you first
Publish your Web. You may instead call it index.html if you prefer, or
any of the valid home page names which are listed in our
Getting Started section.
If you choose a name other than index.htm or index.html for your home page, then you may
need to manually delete the pre-installed index.htm file from the public_html folder so
that the correct home page is displayed. The index.htm file can be manually deleted using
either the online File Manager or an
FTP program.
Please be aware that all filenames on our servers are case sensitive and all valid home
page names consist entirely of lower case letters. For example, calling your home page
Index.htm (with an upper case I) instead of index.htm may cause problems, as this is
not a valid home page name. The server will attempt to correct for incorrectly named
home pages (such as Index.htm) by automatically renaming the file as index.html when
you publish your Web, but it is best not to rely on this and to name your home page
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Once you have designed and tested your site using the FrontPage application on
your local computer, you will want to upload the site (or "web") to your
Efficient Hosting account, so that it can be viewed on the Internet.
This is called "publishing" your "web" in the FrontPage parlance, and involves
the following steps:
1). In FrontPage, open the "web" which you wish to upload (or "publish").
2). Select File->Publish Web...
3). Enter http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/ in the box labelled "Specify the location to publish your web
to". Be sure not to specify the public_html or www directory to FrontPage when publishing. FrontPage
will find the correct location for your files automatically using just the domain name for your site.
Please note that you won't be able to publish your site until your domain name registration or transfer
is fully completed.
4). Click the Publish button.
5). You will be prompted for your account User Name and FrontPage Password.
6). FrontPage will begin uploading your site.
The above steps should also be followed whenever you need to re-publish
your local "web" to the server after making any changes. When you re-publish,
FrontPage will automatically compare your local "web" with the live "web" on
the server and will only update any new or changed pages (and remove any
deleted pages).
During the process of publishing the site, you may be prompted "Do you want to
remove this file?". Please only click "yes" if you are sure that the file concerned
is not one of the system created files and folders which are essential for the
smooth running of your account. If you do not remember creating the file yourself,
it is probably better to play safe and not delete it. To learn more about these
Pre-installed Files, please refer to the
FTP section of the Online Manual.
An exception is the index.htm file in the public_html folder. This
file can be (and should be) safely overwritten.
When FrontPage Extensions were first installed for your account, your FrontPage
password will have been set to be the same as your main account password.
If you later change your account password using the Control Panel
Password Option, your FrontPage
password will be changed automatically at the same time.
In other words, your FrontPage password will always be the same as the
main account password you use when logging in to your Control Panel
(unless you change it manually from within the FrontPage application,
which we don't recommend).
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After you have published your "web" to your Efficient Hosting account, you will
almost certainly want to modify it at some time in the future. We recommend that
you always do this in two steps. First, update the copy of your "web" held on
your local computer. Then re-publish this local "web" to the
server using the normal procedure for publishing a "web".
Doing it this way ensures that your local "web" always remains up to date and
so can act as a local backup of your site. It also avoids the need to remain
on-line whilst experimenting with changes to your "web".
Modifying a local "web" involves the following steps:
1). In FrontPage, select File->Open Web...
2). By selecting from the Look in: drop-down box, you can choose to open a previously created "web" on
your local computer.
Click the Open button to continue.
3). Make whatever changes are required to your "web".
4). Click on File->Save to save your changes.
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An alternative to updating your "web" locally is to update your "web"
live on the server.
We don't recommend this method, as the local copy of your "web" on your local computer
will not be updated. This means that you won't have an up to date backup of your
site. Also, when you next re-publish in the normal way (from
your local "web" to the server), any changes will be overwritten and lost.
If used at all, this method is best used only as a quick way to make small changes.
However, if you do find that you have made a lot of changes live on the server, you
may find it useful to publish "in reverse", from the server back to your local
computer, in order to create an up to date local copy of your site.
Modifying a "web" live on the server involves the following steps:
1). In FrontPage, select File->Open Web...
2). By selecting from the Web Folders directory in the Look in: drop-down box, you can choose to open
a "web" which has already been uploaded to your Efficient Hosting account.
Or, as an alternative to using the drop-down box, you can instead type
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/ directly into the Folder name: field.
Click the Open button to continue.
3). You may be prompted for your User Name and FrontPage Password.
4). Make whatever changes are required to your "web".
5). Click on File->Save to save your changes.
6). After making changes it may be necessary to have FrontPage recalculate the internal links for your site.
Please consult the FrontPage built in help documents for details of when this will be necessary.
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When your account was first set up, a place-holding home page was created
called index.htm. This page contains a message welcoming you to
your Efficient Hosting account.
As explained above, we recommend that you also name
your true home page index.htm, but you may instead use any of
the valid home page names listed in our
Getting Started section.
If you give the home page for your Web a name other than index.htm then
the original index.htm page may not get automatically deleted when you
publish your Web. To allow your home page to be recognized as the
default page you may then need to delete the original index.htm file by
hand, using either the online
File Manager or an
FTP program.
See the Naming Your Home Page section above for
more on this.
This is often a sign that the FrontPage Extensions have become corrupted. It is
very easy to corrupt the FrontPage Extensions by mistake. For this reason, we
recommend that you avoid using FTP or the online
File Manager unless absolutely
necessary when maintaining a site published through FrontPage.
If a FrontPage session is interrupted before completion, this error sometimes
occurs the next time you try to connect. It can be corrected by deleting the file
service.lck which can be found in the folder /public_html/_vti_pvt/.
This file may be deleted either by using the online
File Manager or by using an
FTP program.
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If you decide that you no longer wish to use FrontPage to maintain your web site,
you may contact us
and ask us to remove the FrontPage Extensions from your account. This will release
a little disk space and make your account folder less cluttered with unnecessary
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There are many good books and online resources which explain how to use the
Microsoft FrontPage application.
A good starting point is Microsoft's own
Product Support Page
for Microsoft FrontPage users.
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Customer Support Centre : Manual : Microsoft FrontPage
