Front Page Express comes with Windows 98. It is
fairly ease to use and to upload pages. It seems
to be designed so that the user does not need to know where the
pages are being uploaded and
therefore is easy to get confused as to what and where you are
uploading..
Front Page Express is ok for a small web site,
but you may find it limiting on saving files to your local
hard drive and uploading to your web site. With Front Page you
have to know the file structure, i.e. the
directories and subdirectories where you are uploading to.. You
can not see them like you can with
Corel Web Master, WS-FTP or even the MSDOS ftp program. You will
not get a file exists error that
asks you if you want to replace an existing file.
First You need to set the page properties and where to upload your file.
Click on File and then Page Properties.
For Loblolly.net and for most web servers your location is going to be http://www.servername/~username/filename .
For Loblolly.net the servername is loblolly.net. Do not forget the tilde character before your user name.
The file name is whatever you what. You can use
.htm or .html. It does not mattter.
Unix servers like Loblolly.net are case sensitive so index.html
is a different file than Index.html.
Note: if you want your site to
automatically startup on using www.loblolly.net/~username,
then be sure to have a page named either index.html,
index.htm, default.html or default.htm.
The Apache Web server on Loblolly.net looks for one of these
files in this order and then loads it.
You can change the Background
properties
And set the page Margins
the Custom tab will let you set Sytem Variables
and User Variables.
User Variables are the META tags. Two very
good META tags to Add to help search engines
find your pages are description and keywords.
Description is where you describe your page and may well show up on internet searches.
Keywords is where you list key words for
searching for your site. The first key word is the most
important and the last one the least important for searches.
And now to Upload to your web site.
Click on File then Save As
You can save it to your local hard drive or diskette by clicking on As File.
Put in your Page Title and Page
Location and click on OK.
If you have images to also upload you may get the following:
The Web Publishing Wizard may have started up by now or not??
And now to try it...
Maintained by rddecker@loblolly.net
Last updated on Monday, 06-Sep-1999 18:32:44 CDT