Opening an Existing Web Site

Opening an Existing Web Site

If you need to update an existing Web site, FrontPage gives you ways to open the site. You can use the Open button list arrow on the Standard toolbar, the Recent Sites command on the File menu, and the open links on the Getting Started task pane. You can open a Web site from your local hard drive, a network drive, or a Web server using a Web address, known as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). If you type a file name in the File Name box, FrontPage opens that file using the Windows file system. If you type a Web address, such as www.myhomepage.com, FrontPage retrieves all the files from that location just like a browser. When you open several pages at the same time, they all appear in the same window. However, if you open a new site while another site is still open, the new site opens in a new FrontPage window.

Open a Web Site from a Local Computer

Click the Open button list arrow on the Standard toolbar, and then click Open Site.

Click an icon on the Places bar to open a frequently used folder.

If necessary, click the Look In list arrow, and then select the folder location of the Web page you want to open.

Select the Web folder with the site you want to open.

Click Open.

Did You Know? You can open a recently opened Web site. If you've recently accessed a Web site, you can use the File menu to quickly open it again. Click the File menu' click Recent Sites, and then click the site you want.

For Your Information Internet URLs A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is like a postal address, each part of the address helps indicate where it's supposed to go. The entire address includes the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a colon, two forward slashes, and the site type (usually www for World Wide Web). This is followed by the domain address (the site's name), a period, and the domain name (refers to the type of site, such as .com for commercial). A sample URL is http://www.quepublishing.com.

Open a Web Site from a Web Server

Click the Open button list arrow on the Standard toolbar, and then click Open Site.

Type the URL of the page you want.

TROUBLE? If the URL doesn't connect, create a network connection, and then use My Network Places on the Places bar. On the Windows desktop, click the Start button, click My Network Places, click Add Network Place, and then follow the wizard instructions to create a shortcut to a Web or network folder.

Click Open.

Type the user name and password for the Web server.

Select the Remember My Password check box if you don't want to type your user name and password in the future.

Click OK.