For a website to be published using Microsoft FrontPage a feature called FrontPage Extensions needs to be enabled for your account. To have this feature enabled, please contact Ingenuity’s technical support team on 1300 66 46 43, email:sales@ingenuity.net.au or follow this link to our Online Contact Form.

Once FrontPage Extensions are enabled, you should be able to publish your site by opening FrontPage, selecting the “File” menu and click on the “Publish” option. This will prompt you for your domain name, your username and password. Once you have successfully entered these details, two windows will be displayed on your screen. The window on the Left shows the web files on your local computer. The window on the right shows the files that are on our webserver. Select your files from the left window and drag them to the right window.

For further information on how to use Microsoft FrontPage have a look at these two very comprehensive tutorials:

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/frontpage
http://www.icemocha.com/tutorials.htm

The most common method of uploading your website is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Another popular method of publishing websites is using Microsoft’s FrontPage. We will only discuss uploading via FTP in this article, but if you have developed your website using FrontPage you might like to look at: How To Publish Your Site Using MS FrontPage.

To connect to our webserver via FTP you will need to use some FTP software. To help you decide on what software to use, we have provided a list of Good FTP Software. Regardless of what FTP program you decide to use, they all require the same basic information:

Some FTP programs do not require ALL the details above, so don’t panic if your software does not ask for some of the above information. Your Username and Password should be included in the Welcome email that was sent to you when your account was first activated.

Once you’ve logged in via FTP, you will normally be presented with two subdirectories: “cgi-bin” and “web” (some web hosting packages have a third directory called “logs”). You should upload all your website pages into the “web” subdirectory.

Please ensure that the main page for your website is called: “index.html”, “index.htm” or “index.php” otherwise our webserver will not be able to find your website.