ISP Doesn't Support Publisher 2003 Extensions

[Jazzwolf]

My ISP has decided not to support Publisher 2003. Can someone offer a
step-by-step instruction for uploading a web page update under these
circumstances?

Thanks,

 

[DavidF]

To be specific, are you saying that your ISP does not provide FrontPage
Service Extensions at all? And, are you also saying that they did offer
FPSE, but have chosen to stop?

Assuming that you are saying that you can't use HTML uploading, then you can
FTP, or in the worse case, every webhost provides some form of upload
manager/tool, and you could upload it that way. Reference:
Uploading/Publishing articles:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/category/1921.aspx

If you are using a form on your page, you will have to find an alternative.
The "built-in" Publisher forms are dependent upon FPSE to work. There are
workarounds...

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Jazzwolf,

Thanks for getting back to me. Can I assume that you webhost is goweb.com?
Part of the reason I asked was that MS is replacing FrontPage with two new
programs, and neither of them use FPSE. This does mean that some webhosts
will not be offering FPSE support in the future.

I was able to get the link to work. Bottom line is that you will need to use
FTP uploading, or the built-in file uploading tool provided by your host.
FTP is usually a superior method, and there are a lot of FTP programs out
there. One suggested on the goweb.com FAG page is FileZilla:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

Or as per the links I gave you, David Bartosik describes FTP uploading:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/80556.aspx
Personally, I prefer publishing my website file (html files) to my hard
drive, and using a separate FTP client to upload them. Or once you create
the ftp site in your Network places you can use Windows Explorer to upload
the html files from your computer to your webhost.

As I said before, the lack of FPSE support by your host won't be an issue
unless you are using a form in your Publisher document. That does require
FPSE.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Jazzwolf,

Reference: Publisher web publication forms 101:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80564.aspx

You are approaching the process correctly. Make changes in your original
Publisher document, Save those changes, then Publish to the Web to produce
your HTML files and folders. If you use the subfolder option, then an
index.htm file and a index_files folder is produced. These are what need to
be uploaded to your webhost. If you Publish to the Web, and direct the files
to your hard drive, you can then use FTP clients such as FileZilla to upload
those files. Or as per David's article, you directly upload them from
Publisher. Several ways of skinning this cat. Just study David's article and
try uploading that way, or use one of the other FTP uploading methods.

DavidF