Opening your site
Once your new site is published, NEVER edit a webpage by accessing FrontPage from the web browser. Always open FrontPage from your Programs menu or desktop.
Saving FrontPage as a shortcut on your desktop
If you are using Windows XP
- Select Start, point to All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office FrontPage date (if you are using Microsoft Windows 2000, point to Programs instead of All Programs)
-
Right
click Microsoft Office FrontPage date, point to Send To > Desktop
(create shortcut) - a shortcut icon for Microsoft FrontPage will appear
on your desktop
Opening your site in FrontPage
To access either your new or existing site
- Open FrontPage 2002
- Go to File, then Open Web… (or Open Site... if FrontPage 2003)
- In the Open Web dialogue box select My Network Places from the Look in: column in the left hand side
- In the box called Folder name, type in http://www.newdev.unisa.edu.au/* (where * = the usual extension for your site on the web eg 'art' or 'sas') if you are authoring a new site, or http://www.olddev.unisa.edu.au/* if you making changes to a site not converted to the corporate web templates
- Click Open
- If asked to enter your network password, enter your domain and usual user logon in the first line (ie UNINET\yourusername) and your usual password in the next line
- Click OK and this screen will close
- Click Open on the next screen
- Your web will open and you can now create/edit your site
After the first time of opening a new site, you won't have to type in the URL - the site will automatically be saved and listed under My Network Places.
