publish to the web

[shari]

I am trying to publish my website via www.aplus.net (webhosting which
Microsoft advice to work with when publishing a website). They have a file
manager. I have saved my website by clicking on publish to web, and have
saved it under the name index.html (im not sure if it is good to save the
whole file under that name). I have uploaded that file in the file manager of
www.aplus.net. When i preview my website i only see the first page of my
website and which is correctly uploaded. I can not see the other pages.
If it is necessary to give you my website address i will do that. what am i
doing wrong>?

 

[shari]

my website is multicorponline.com

 

[Mbraid96]

Shari,

This got me the first time too. Publisher creates a new set of folders when
you save your index.htm file to your hard drive. You need to upload the
contents of these two folders to your webhosting company as well. These
contain the other pages of your website. They should be located at the same
path on your hard drive that you saved your index.htm file to. The two
folders you need to upload are titled index_files and index_home_files. Keep
the same naming convention when you upload them to your hosting company and
put them in the root directory. This should be all you need to do.


Matt

 

[DavidF]

Matt,

Which version of Publisher are you using? Pub 2003 only outputs an index.htm
file and one folder called index_files...or at least that has been my
experience. What is in your index_home_files folder?

DavidF

 

[punkyfish]

Hi there,
Sorry to interfere with your question but I can't get the 'New Post'
function to work.
My question is about publishing to the web but is a more general question:
I am very happy with MS Publisher for layout purposes and absolutely hate
the web design programs such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver. I don't intend to
become a web designer but just want to be able to design the layout in
Publisher and upload it to my site. However, I have read people who say that
Publisher is not suitable for this - it creates erroneous and unnecessarily
large amounts of code etc. Is this really a big problem for occasional users
like myself?
Or if I have to learn Frontpage, is there a way to work between Publisher
and Frontpage? If so how do I do this?
Once again, apologies to Shari...

 

[DavidF]

Its hard to answer your question, without knowing what your goals and
expectations are for your website. In my opinion if you use Publisher for
your hard copy documents, and want to easily take those design elements and
integrate them into a basic, simple static website, then Publisher can be a
good choice. If you plan on having a more sophisticated, dynamic site, then
investing the time and money in FrontPage or some other more specialized
program would be your best choice.

You will not be able to import your Publisher built site into FrontPage, but
you could copy and paste design elements. Just remember that Publisher is
primarily a DTP...with limited web building capability. Too gain the
convenience of using Publisher, there will be tradeoffs and limitations.
Yes, the html code produced is a bit bloated, and most serious web designers
would never consider using Publisher to build websites, but that doesn't
mean you can't build an attractive and effective simple site.

Read at least the article Using Publisher for Web Sites by David Bartosik
and perhaps the What's new with Pub 2003 for more perspective:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/category/1922.aspx

DavidF