Create a web site offline before putting it on the Internet or intranet

From Microsoft Frontpage Help
Create a web site offline before putting it on the Internet or intranet

Step 1— Determine where your web site will be located

I don't have a hosting location for my web site

You need to sign up for a web site (Web site: A group of related Web pages that is hosted by an HTTP server on the World Wide Web. The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point.) hosting account.


A web site hosting account is needed to make your web site visible to the world. A hosting service, known as an Internet service provider (ISP) (ISP: A business that provides access to the Internet for such things as electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web. Some ISPs are multinational, offering access in many locations, while others are limited to a specific region.), or a Web Presence Provider (WPP), can provide you with a web site account.

There are many well-known web site hosting companies that let you quickly and easily publish Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Office documents directly to the Internet.

After getting a web site account, have the URL (Uniform Resource Locator (URL): An address that specifies a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) and a location of an object, document, World Wide Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet — for example: http://www.microsoft.com/.) (HTTP location) at hand for the section called Publish your Web site.

Note The hyperlink in this topic goes to the Web. You can switch back to Help at any time.

I do have a hosting location for my web site

Have your URL (Uniform Resource Locator (URL): An address that specifies a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) and a location of an object, document, World Wide Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet — for example: http://www.microsoft.com/.) (HTTP location) at hand for the section called Publish your web site.

Note You can test many Microsoft FrontPage features even without publishing your web site to the Internet.

Step 2 — Create your web site offline

In Microsoft FrontPage, on the File menu, point to New, and then click Page or Web.
In the New task pane, under New from Template, click Web Site Templates.
Click One Page Web, and then in the Specify the location of the new web box, type a path on your hard drive.
The path should be typed in the following format: C:\My Webs\MyWebSite

Click OK.

From Page view, make sure the Folder List is showing.
How?

On the View menu, click Folder List.
In the Folder List, select Default.htm , which is the home page (home page: Main page of a Web site. Usually has hyperlinks to other pages, both within and outside the site. One Web site can contain many home pages. For example, the Microsoft home page contains a Products home page, which contains other home pages.) for your web site, and then click Preview in Browser.

Personalize the page by typing in your own content, and then click Save .
Click Preview in Browser .
The home page appears in the Web browser.

Step 3 — Publish your web site

On the File menu, click Publish Web.
In the Publish Destination dialog box, type the location of a Web server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with http://.).
Click OK.
Specify the pages you want to publish.
How?

In the Publish Web dialog box, click Options in the lower left corner.
Click the Publish tab, and do one or more of the following:
Under Publish, specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
Under Changes, specify how you want Microsoft FrontPage to determine what pages have been changed.
If you want to create a log file for changes made during publishing, select that check box.
Click OK.
Click Publish.
Important When you publish to the Internet, any content you have added to your web site becomes visible to the public on the World Wide Web.

Notes

If you want to verify that your web site was successfully published, click the hyperlink that is displayed after the web site has been published — your Web browser will open to the site you just published.
If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.