What is Microsoft Frontpage?
Frontpage is one of Microsoft's main web design programs, and is often sold as part of the 'Microsoft Office' package. It can be used to build and publish your website from start to finish.

If you have used Microsoft FrontPage to create your website, you can upload/publish it directly to your web space using 'FrontPage Extensions'. FrontPage Extensions allow you to manage your site directly from Microsoft Frontpage and use advanced Frontpage functionality.

Do I Have To Use 'Frontpage Extensions' If My Site Was Built With Frontpage?
No not necessarily, you can upload your files via FTP although some of Frontpage's advanced functionality will not be available. Please Note: you will not be able to publish your web site files direct from Frontpage unless you have the 'Frontpage Extensions' installed.

Can I Use Frontpage Extensions And FTP?
No, when 'FrontPage Extensions' are installed on a domain, FTP access to the htdocs folder, and all of its sub folders, is restricted to read only. There are no write/upload permissions.

This means you can not upload any files to your server via FTP.These permissions apply to all FTP accounts, and are applied to ensure that 'Frontpage Extensions' cannot be broken by using FTP. If you need to upload via FTP, you will need to remove Frontpage extensions from the domain, this will reset permissions and allow you to upload as normal via FTP.

Using Frontpage to publish your website
Once you have created your website, you will need to publish it. This involves uploading the website files from your local computer to your public server, where they can viewed by anyone with access to the internet.

Firstly, in order to publish your website using Frontpage, you must have ordered 'Frontpage Extensions' from your control panel as this is an optional extra subject to licensing.

Step 1: On the File menu, click Publish Website.
Step 2: In the Publish Destination dialog box enter your fully qualified domain URL. Note: If you have previously chosen a publishing destination for this web site, the Publish Destination dialog box will not appear. Proceed to step 4
Step 3:Click OK.
Step 4:Specify the pages you want to publish.

• In the Publish Web dialog box, click Options in the lower left corner.
• Click the 'Publish' tab, and select one of the following:
• Under 'Publish', specify the pages you want to publish. ie.. updated pages or all pages.
• Under 'Changes', specify how you want Frontpage to handle pages have been changed.
• If you want to create a log file to record any changes made, select the check box.
• Click OK.

Step 5: Next, Click Publish.

What Next?
After you finished publishing your website, we recommend that you visit the site through an internet browser to confirm that your upload was successful.
Note: If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

Publishing .NET Pages With Frontpage
As our ASP.NET Framework shares a server with other accounts, you are unable to create additional IIS applications on our shared Windows servers, you would need one of our dedicated servers for that. Alternatively, you can upload your files via FTP in order to publish a .NET site.

Things To Note
Microsoft's Visual Studio has a Copy Project option that requires FrontPage Extensions to be installed on the domain. This option will not work because the FrontPage Extensions need administrator permissions that are not suitable for our shared servers.

If you have installed FrontPage Extensions on your domain, you should uninstall them via your account control panel, before uploading your files via FTP. If you need to upload ASP.NET assembly files (compiled dlls), you will need to create a new folder within htdocs called bin and upload your .dll files to this directory via FTP.