Using Microsoft Front Page

It is STRONGLY recommended that you access your site & CAPTURE all the image files to your hard drive before attempting to open your site online using FrontPage.  Microsoft FrontPage is an old software and no longer supported by Microsoft.  The newer web servers also do not support most FrontPage extensions.  If you are having problems opening your website using FrontPage we strongly suggest that you download a copy of your website to your computer using an FTP program before proceeding.  Once you have a valid copy of your website, go into your Control Panel and reinstall your FrontPage extensions.  Sometimes this will corrupt your website which is why we ask that you have a valid copy before reinstalling the FrontPage extensions.  Contact us if you have any questions on the above information.

Digital Media World Wide, Inc. can provide you with your web site files on CD-ROM for a nominal fee of $75.00. Please contact us at 877-630-0504 for further information.

Digital Media World Wide, Inc. is not in the practice of tutoring you through the process of editing or maintaining your web site, but should you require telephone technical support you may request support at a rate of $75.00 per hour with a minimum charge of $37.50 pending support required.  Payment via credit card is the accepted method for tech support.  For further information please contact us at 877-630-0504.

Below you will find our free online tech support. 

To Publish using Microsoft FrontPage

Open your local FrontPage Web

1. Get Online using your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
2. Open FrontPage on your Local Computer.  If the "Getting Started" Dialog box does not appear, then go to the "File" menu and select "Open FrontPage 
3. Web".  (This assumes you have already saved your site on your local hard drive)
4. When the "Getting Started" dialog box appears, click on the ''More Webs" button.
5. When the "Open FrontPage Web" dialog box appears, type in "local host:" or the Full Path to your FrontPage web on your local hard drive in the "Select a Web server or disk location" box.  Then click on the "List Webs" button.E.
6. Now, a list of webs will appear in the "FrontPage Webs found at location" list box.  Click on "<Root Web>" if that is the only one that appears in the list.  Then, click on the "OK" button to load you local FrontPage web.
7. Your Web Site that you have created on your local computer is now loaded into FrontPage.

Publishing Your Web Site to the Server

1. Select the "File" Menu and click on the "Publish FrontPage Web" option. Do not click on the "Publish" button in the toolbar since this sometimes will not prompt you for vital options.
2. When the "Publish" dialog box appears, click on the "More Webs" button.
3. When the "Publish FrontPage Web" dialog box appears, type in the FULL URL to your web site (http://www.yourdomain.com) or, if your domain name has not been registered with the Internic yet, type in the IP Address of your web site and click on "OK". Do not select the "Secure connection" check box. 
4. Click "OK" in the "Publish" dialog box to begin publishing your web site to the server.  The status bar along the bottom of the FrontPage window will display the status of the publish operation.

For Further Tech Support regarding FrontPage consult the "Help" Menu found within the FrontPage program.

We strongly suggest that you do not use Form Mail or FronPage to set up an online form.  The FrontPage forms are at a high risk for hackers so we ask that you do not use them. 

FrontPage

1. Open the page that contains your form in the Editor.
2. Right click within the form area and choose "Form Properties". Click the radio button next to "Send to other" and choose "Custom ISAPI, NSAPI, CGI, or ASP Script".
3. Click the "Options" button. In the "Action" box, put "/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl". Then click "OK"
4. Click the "Advanced" button in the Form Properties dialog box. You will have to Add 3 hidden fields here: recipient, redirect and subject. Recipient is the email address of the person getting the form mail. Redirect is the URL the browser goes to after the user submits the form. Subject defines the subject line of the email you will receive when a user submits the form.
5. Click OK to the Advanced Form Properties dialog box, then click OK again to the Form Properties dialog box. Save your work and exit.

FTP Access using  WS_FTP

Get a copy of WS_FTP

1.  Configure Your FTP Client

 A.  Session Properties will appear add the following parameters:

1. In the 'Profile Name' box, enter a title for your site so you can select it later on.
2. In the 'Host Name/Address' box, enter your domain name.  If your domain name does not point, use your IP Address that we provided you when you signed off on final approval & requested site access.
3. In the 'User ID' box enter the user name provided to you.
4. Enter your 'Password'
5. Do not select 'Anonymous' check box
6. Optionally, you can select 'Save Pwd' (Save Password)

B.  Select the 'Startup' tab

C.  Enter '/httpdocs' in the top text box

D.  Optionally select the local directory to point to your local files or Traverse through the directories in the program later

E.   Select 'OK'

FTP Your Web Site

1. Go to your Web Site Directory on the left side of the window and select all of the htm, html, gif, and jpg files
2. Hit the right arrow '->' in the middle of the pages
3. All of your files will now be uploaded to your web site

*****Fetch*****

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 Get a copy of Fetch

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 Get Online with your Internet Service Provider (ISP)

3

 Configure Your FTP Client

  One common use for Fetch is transferring web pages to web servers. Web authors often create their HTML, GIF, JPEG, etc. files on a personal Macintosh, and use Fetch to transfer the pages to the server that will actually serve the files over the Internet. This tutorial section is aimed at walking you through your first such transfer.

Before you start, you will need to gather four important pieces of information:

1) The hostname of the server that will hold your pages. It should be something like "yourdomain.com".

2) Your userid, which you were given after signing final approval & requested site access.

3) Your password,which you were given after signing final approval & requested site access.

4) The name of the directory, which will hold your pages. Web pages are stored in a special directory named "httpdocs".

To start, choose the New Connection... command from the File menu. Enter the four pieces of information in the four text fields, and press OK . If everything goes well you will see a list of the files in your web directory. Otherwise you will need to correct one or more of the pieces of information.

Once you are connected, choose the Put Folders and Files... command from the Remote menu to upload your web page files. If all of the files are in one folder, you can navigate to that folder and use the Add All button to add them to the list of items to be uploaded. Otherwise you can choose them one by one. You can also add folders to the list of items to be uploaded. Next you will be asked what formats to use for the transfer. You want to choose "Text" as the format for text files, and "Raw Data" as the format for all other files (such as images). Then press OK to begin the transfer.

Once the pages have been uploaded you should check them with a web browser. Enter the URL in the browser's Location field and check to make sure that all the images show up, and that all the links work. If there are problems you should double-check your HTML tags to make sure that they have the right file references. Your main page should be named "index.html" or "index.htm". CGI scripts need to go in a particular directory - /home/<username>/cgi-bin, and you will need to set their execute permission bit.