How to Publish Your Web – MIS 300
If you’ve created your web as a Web folder already, just copy the entire Web folder to a floppy or zip disk,
bring it to the lab, and copy your Web folder into the C\MyDocuments\MyWebs folder on the hard drive.
Go to Step 10.
OTHERWISE, assume you’ve created all of your web pages and you have them all stored on a floppy
disk. Let’s pretend that your two pages are called home.htm and products.htm.
1) Sit down at an SBA Lab computer.
2) Create a new folder with the MyDocuments folder on the C:. Let’s say you create
C:\MyDocuments\ACME.
3) Copy home.htm and products.htm from your disk into this new folder using Windows Explorer.
4) Start FrontPage 2000.
5) Select File – New – Web. You’ll see the following dialog box:
What you are doing is creating a new web on the local hard drive of the computer you’re sitting at.
6) Select Empty Web and put a name for your web in here. For example, if you name your web ACME,
the dialog box should look like this:
7) Click OK. You now have created an empty web on the local hard drive of the computer. Now you
need to import your web pages into this web.
8) Select File – Import. You’ll get this:
9) Click the Add File button. Browse to the ACME folder in \MyDocuments (NOT to the ACME folder
in \MyDocuments\MyWebs!). This is the folder that contains your web pages. You can select all of
your pages at once by holding down the Shift key as you select each web page. Click OK. This will
import your web pages into the web you’ve created.
10) Now it’s time to publish your web to the mis300class web server. Select File – Publish Web. The
screen should look something like:
Here’s your local web.
Notice your htm files that
you imported.
11) Now you will get the dialog box where you specify the location to which you want to publish the web.
Remember, you put in the w3.sba.oakland.edu/mis300class/[YOUR UNIQUE WEB NAME], which in this
example is ACME. You’re actually specifying the name of the new web on the web server but you might as
well name it the same (e.g. ACME) as you’ve named your local web.
12) You’ll likely get several dialog boxes asking for a user name and password. Just put in sbalab for the
user name and leave password blank. Click OK. An example is shown below.
13) If all goes well, you’ll see:
14) Click done.
15) Quit Frontpage 2000.
16) Launch a browser (Netscape or IE5).
17) Your URL is http://w3.sba.oakland.edu/mis300class/ACME/home.htm (the home.htm is specific to
this example, you’ll have the name of whatever htm file is your home page in your web). If your home
page is called index.htm, then your URL is just http://w3.sba.oakland.edu/mis300class/ACME or, in
general, http://w3.sba.oakland.edu/mis300class/ACME/. Try going to it.
18) When you successfully can go there, you are done publishing your web. Check ALL of your links to
make sure they work. Now complete the homework by emailing me the URL so I can go there. Include
the names of your group members in the email.