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Accessing Your Account By FrontPage

Although we will enable FrontPage extensions on request, we recommend using (FTP) File Transfer Protocol as the method of transferring files to your website. Please note that you can still use the FrontPage Editor to create your web pages and transfer them using FTP if FrontPage extensions are not enabled.

FrontPage extensions simply allow you to use FrontPage Explorer to transfer your files to your website with the use of the built in scripts as opposed to using our set of CGI scripts we have available for you to use.

Please take the following into consideration when you are making a decision about using either FrontPage extensions or FTP:

• When FrontPage extensions are enabled, FTP will be disabled as you cannot use both methods of file transfer together on your account.
• You will not be able to use our standard set of CGI scripts, instead you will need to implement the scripting that is incorporated into your HTML using the FrontPage Editor.
• We cannot activate FrontPage extensions when files that have been transferred previously using FTP on your account as both types of files cannot reside on our server together.

To publish your web site through Microsoft FrontPage, follow the steps below using FrontPage Explorer:

1. On the File menu, click on Publish Web.
2. Click on Options. Specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
3. In the specify the location to publish your web to window, type in your domain name - http://www.yourdomain.com
4. Click on Publish. A dialogue box will appear prompting you for your username and password that was confirmed in the welcome email sent to you when you signed up.
5. Files and directories on the left are located on your local computer. Files and directories on the right are live on the Internet, located on our web server.

Hit Counter

To add a page counter, click on Insert in the FrontPage editor and select active elements, click on hit counter. There is a choice of several counters to use. The counter will automatically display when the page is saved to our web server.

Forms

To add a form to your page, click on insert in the FrontPage editor and click on form field. You can add different components to your form and edit them. Once you have created the layout, click on the right mouse button on the submit button and select form properties. You can now type in an e-mail address in the email address field and/or a file name if you want a log of submissions from the form saved to a file in the _private directory. For extended options such as a page displayed when the form has been submitted, click on the options button. You can also define a subject line to appear in the form's email message under options also.

Hover Button

To add a hover button to your page, click on insert in the FrontPage editor and select active elements, click on hover button. Simply choose a page that the button is linked to, and decide on the colors. The buttons will show when the page is uploaded to our web server.

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