Publish Site- Seems simple enough

[jrobin5881]

I have a website that I saved to my desktop. I opened Front Page and made some edits. I want to FTP it back up to the server for posting. The help menu tells me to SELECT File- Publish Website and FTP it back. My problem is that Publish Website is greyed out and for the life me I can't figure out why? What am I overlooking?

 

[AMysticWeb]

Sounds like instead of creating a web and then subsequently pages within the web, you created a set of orphan pages.

The Publish Web function only works with an open web.

Always start with File >> New >> Web and then File >> New >> Page to add pages to it.

Once you create a web, you could reopen these pages, do a File >> Save As and direct the save to the newly created web. They would keep the same name as previously.

Side note: so as not to run into problems with navigation later on, also avoid using spaces in page names. If you need to separate names, us the underscore instead.

As to using FTP, be aware that if you use FTP, certain components such as FP Hit Counter and FP forms won't work if published with FTP. They require the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) in order to function. Use of FTP will likely corrupt them disabling these components.

Hope I have been of some help,
Micheal Smith

FrontPage Form Tutorials & Form Script Examples

http://FrontPageForms.com

 

[jrobin5881]

Micheal,

I'm trying to edit a web page that exists on a web site using FTP. So I guess maybe I would make the edits directly on the server and not have to publish?

 

[AMysticWeb]

Once again, if this is an orphan page, it has to be included in a web. This is the only reason I know that Publish Web would be grayed out when working on a local web.

If you are opening the site live with FrontPage on the server, then it would simply be save rather than publish.
Then it would need to be published down to file if you wanted the updated version on your PC.

You can of course use FTP with FrontPage Publish Web or an FTP program but this could still interfere with the extensions.

Hope I have been of some help,
Micheal Smith

FrontPage Form Tutorials & Form Script Examples

http://FrontPageForms.com