Publishing Your Site to the Internet
If you are managing your web site’s updates, publishing your web site to the Internet can be a relatively simple process, two-step process:
- Connect to the Internet through your local Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- Run one of the popular publishing programs listed below, and send your web site files to your site hosted on our servers
Once this is accomplished, your web site is live on the Internet and accessible anywhere in the world!
To publish your site, you can use any of the supported methods:
- FTP Client Software
- MS FrontPage Client
- Any other publishing software that supports either FTP or FrontPage server extensions (most support at least one of these)
All of our hosting plans support the FTP protocol. If you are using FrontPage you will need to have the FrontPage server extensions installed on your site.
Publishing Your Site with FrontPage
If you are publishing your site with Microsoft FrontPage, you can use the built-in Publishing feature of these programs.
Using FrontPage, you can publish the files in the current web when you are ready to present your web for public viewing, or when you want to update the files in your web. You can publish using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) if the the FrontPage Server Extensions are installed on the Web server to which you are publishing. If you need the Server Extensions installed on your website, please contact us through Support.
Before you publish your web, you can specify which pages you want to publish. Then, when you publish your web, you have the following options:
Publish only the files that have changed. FrontPage compares the files on your local web to the files on the Web server, and only those files that are newer than those on the Web server are published. However, files that have been marked Don't Publish will not be published.
Publish all files, except those that have been marked Don't Publish. The files from the local web will overwrite all files on the destination Web server, even if the files on the Web server are newer.
- On the File menu, click Publish Web.
- Click Options to expand the list of options.
- Specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
- In the Specify the location to publish your web to box, type the location of a Web server (eg. http://www.mydomain.com), click the arrow to select a location to which you have published before, or click Browse to find the publishing location.
- Click Publish.
FrontPage publishes your web. If you want to verify that your web was successfully published, click the hyperlink that is displayed after the web 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.
Publishing Your Website with FTP
Transferring your files to the web server can be accomplished by using a program called File Transfer Protocol or FTP. If you have an Internet connection, you can download a program for either the PC or Mac from these sources:
- WS_FTP (Windows)
- CuteFTP (Windows)
- Fetch for Macintosh
To publish your pages using FTP, you will need your
user id,
password and
FTP host name to connect to your web server. When you connect to the web server, you will connect directly to the root ("home") directory (or folder) of your account. You can place your pages directly into the root folder, or you can create sub-folders and copy your files into the sub-folders