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Before you can put your site online, you will need to have a server that will "host" your web site. (See our Web Site Basics series for more info.)

Make a subweb
If you have an existing web site but don't want to replace it with your new web, you can make a subweb! For example, if your domain is www.yourcompany.com, but you are just testing your new web and don't want to overwrite anything on your existing domain, you can simply create a new folder - for example, www.yourcompany.com/mytestweb. Then publish your web to this location. No one else will know that it's there, but you can go to it online to view it and test it out.

Publishing in FrontPage 2003

1. Open your web. Click the "Web Site" tab, then choose "Remote Web Site" from the bottom of the window.
2. The first time you publish, you'll have to set up the Remote Web Site Properties. Click the Remote Web Site Properties button that is at the top of the Remote Web Site panel.
3. You'll see several options for how to publish:
    
   • FrontPage or SharePoint Services - This is if you are publishing to a web server that supports FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Services. You will then type your web URL - for example, http://www.yourcompany.com.
   • DAV - This is if you're publishing to a server that supports Distributed Authoring and Versioning.
   • FTP - If your web site does not have FP server extensions, you will most likely be using FTP. You will then type the ftp location. It may look something like ftp://www.yourhostingservice.com/yoursitefolder.
   • File System - This is if you're going to publish to a different folder on your computer. You may browse to the location or manually type in the path.
4. There are two other tabs - one for optimizing HTML and one for Publishing options. When you initially publish, you may not want to worry about those, but feel free to take a look.
5. Click "OK" to publish your web site. If you are publishing to a server, you may need to enter your username and password. If you are creating a new folder to publish your site to, FP will ask if you want to create a new web folder. Go ahead and click OK.
6. FrontPage will begin connecting to your location. When it's ready, you'll see both your local files as well as your "remote" folder.
   
   
    
7. Click the "Publish Web Site" button. FrontPage will then will begin copying the files over. You can view the status in the bottom section of the window.
   Note - If there are a number of people editing the web site, you may want to update your own local copy of the web site. You can choose to publish from "Remote to Local" or to "Synchronize" your remote and local web sites.

Publishing in FrontPage 2002

1. Open your web. Go to File / Publish Web. A dialog box will pop up. Type or browse to the location you want to publish your web. Click OK.
2. You may publish to a URL (http://...) or browse to a location on your computer. For example, if you wish to have a local copy of your web on your computer, you may publish your live web to a location on your hard drive.
   
    
3. If this is the first time you are publishing a web to this location, FrontPage will ask if it may create the files needed for a web. Click OK.
   
4. FrontPage will list the files in your web that it will publish.
   
5. You may click the "Options..." button if you are publishing to an existing web. You may also click the "Show" button to view the file structure of the publish location.
   1. Options:
      Choose if you want to publish only the pages that have changed, or if you want to overwrite all pages.
   2. Show:
      Click "Hide" to minimize the publish location file information.
6. Click "Publish" to publish your web. Then wait and watch while FrontPage publishes your web! A dialog box will come up to allow you to view your new web in a browser or to view your publish log file.
   

Publishing in FrontPage 2000

1. Open your web. Go to File / Publish Web. A dialog box will pop up. Type or browse to the location you want to publish your web. Click OK.
   
2. You may publish to a URL (http://...) or browse to a location on your computer. For example, if you wish to have a local copy of your web on your computer, you may publish your live web to a location on your hard drive.
3. If this is the first time you are publishing a web to this location, you do not have to choose any of the other options. If you are republishing a web to an existing location, you can choose whether or not you want to publish only the pages that you've changed or if you want to overwrite all pages.
4. Click Publish. You may need to type in your username and password if you are connecting to a server.
   
    
5. FrontPage will begin connecting to your location, then will begin copying the files over.
   
    
6. A dialog box will come up to allow you to view your new web in a browser.
   

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