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Presentation/Web FrontPage - Creating/Opening a Website or Web Page Locally

Creating/Opening a Single Web Page Locally

If you wish to produce a single web page, or edit an existing one, use the "New Document" or "Open" buttons.  They work much like those associated with Word or other documents - with one substantial difference.  Remember that web pages require images to be kept as separate files (see "General Issues - Images . . ."), so it's  best to create a folder somewhere on your local or network drive just for this purpose, and keep everything you use in your web page there.  Then, when you are ready to place the page on a website, they'll all be together. 

After completing your page, you can incorporate it into an existing website simply by copying the page and its associated images into the site, and then creating a hyperlink somewhere on the site leading to your page. Some adjustments may be required, especially if the site itself has a theme or other global structure.

Creating/Opening an Entire Website Locally

If your intent is to create a new website, or edit an existing one, you should use the "File/Open Web" menu option.  This will induce FrontPage to automatically create and maintain many of the clerical files needed for a website to work properly.  In addition, FrontPage will then help with managing associated files (such as images) and their locations.

"Locally" simply means on your computer's hard drive, or on your school local area network.  Locally-created websites have all the characteristics of real websites, and can be opened and viewed by you in your Internet browser.  They are not available to others through the World Wide Web.  If you create your site locally, you'll need to publish it for it to become visible on the Web.

Working locally has the advantage that changes can be tested and proven before being committed to the public site, so no one sees your mistakes.  It also constitutes a second copy of your website so that if anything disastrous happened, you have your work saved. It has the disadvantage of requiring a network-intensive process by which you transfer files up to your "real" website (that's "Publishing"), which is time-consuming and sometimes confronts network problems. In practice, most experienced FrontPage users create their site locally, publish once, and then edit directly on the site, relying on the server's own system for backup and disaster recovery.

Here's how to create or open a website stored locally:

 

1) Open FrontPage. Go to "File/Open Web."  In the pull-down "Look in" window, select your local or network drive and folder. If the site already exists, simply select the web folder and click "Open," then go directly to step 5.  If not - click the "Create New Folder" icon.

2) Give your new folder a name.  Any name will do, since it won't appear anywhere on your website when it's published. Click "OK."

3) Back in the "Open Web" dialog box, Click "Open"

4) Click "Yes" to this box . . . this automatically creates the files needed to manage your site.

5)  Finally, a few seconds later, you'll be placed into your working environment, which looks like this.