Microsoft FrontPage - Opening Your Web Site

IMPORTANT: You will need to login to your Windows 2003 Control Panel and enable your FrontPage server extensions before you can use FrontPage. This will only need to be done one time. Be sure to write down the FrontPage username that will be presented after your enable your FrontPage server extensions. We have a tutorial on this here.

Here are the instructions on how to open your web site on your local hard drive and on the server. The screen shots below are of Microsoft FrontPage 2002 but the web opening process is the same for all versions of FrontPage. 

Opening your web site on the server

Opening your web site on your local hard drive

Opening Your Web on the Server

1. To open your web site on the server you will need to open FrontPage and click on File / Open Web as show below

2. A new window will pop up giving you a selection of where to look for your web site (shown below). You can do one of two things to open your web. If this is the first time you have opened your web on the server you will have to type in your web site address in the Web Name or Folder Name field. If you have already opened your web site on the server you can click on Web Folders or My Network Places depending on which operating system you are using and select your web site from the list. Once you have typed in the web address or selected it from the list then click Open. Your web site will then be opened in FrontPage. Remember that any changes you make to your web when you open it on the server are saved directly to the server. Be careful not to accidentally delete or change anything that you do not have a backup copy of on your hard drive.

Opening Your Web on Your Local Hard Drive

1. To open your web site on your local hard drive you will need to open FrontPage and click on File / Open Web as show below

2. A new window will pop up giving you a selection of where to look for your web site (shown below). If you saved your web site in the My Documents folder you can click on the icon on the left side of the window (shown below). If you saved your web in another folder, then you will need to use the Look in box to browse and locate the folder. Once you have found your web site folder then click Open. Your web site will then be opened in FrontPage. Remember that any changes that you make to your web when you open it on your hard drive are not saved directly to the server. If you accidentally delete or change anything, then you always have a backup copy on the server. 

Once you have opened your web you can go to our Web Publishing Tutorial for screen shots and instructions on how to do so. 

 

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