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Before you start: Getting a Faculty FrontPage Web Server account

* The Faculty FrontPage Web Server is available for academic use only. Also, web pages must use forms. For a definition of a webform, view the comparison of server types page. For pages not implementing webforms, use the Instruct Server. Space is available for personal use through MyWeb.

Before you can publish a Web site to the Faculty Web Server you must get an account by filling out the FrontPage account application form.

Changing Faculty Web Server Password

Users wishing to change their Faculty Web Server password can now do so at https://myuser.nmu.edu/user. This will also change your Outlook Web Access/Exchange Server Password.

Part 1: Creating the site files locally (on your computer)

  1. Go to the My Webs folder on your computer, and create a folder inside that for your site.

    The My Webs folder is in C:\Documents and Settings\UserID\MyDocuments, where "UserID" is your NMU ID.

    In the following example, the user "wmozart" has created a folder named "Public."

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  2. If necessary, create sub-folders within your Web site folder.

    For example, you may want a separate folder for your graphics. If you are creating a large site with many pages you may want to group the pages into sub-folders. In the following example there are six sub-folders: Academics, Graphics, Misc, Outdoors, Travel, and Family.

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  3. Open FrontPage and create the home page for your site.

    Name the page home.htm and make sure you save it in the main folder for your site, not in a sub-folder.

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  4. Create other pages.

    For help creating links and adding graphics, use the FrontPage help. Use the following key words in the Answer Wizard to get help on

    To find out how to... Use the following key words in the help Answer Wizard
    Add a link Create a hyperlink
    Add a graphic Add a graphic to a web page
    Make and use a page template Create or modify a web page template
    Make your page show up in search engines such as Google Add search engine keywords to a Web page
    Put in alternative text for a graphic Add text that describes a graphic
  5. Test your site.
    1. Choose View > Reports > Problems > Unlinked Pages to make sure each page is accessible from at least one other page.
    2. Choose View > Reports > Problems > Broken Hyperlinks to make sure all your hyperlinks work.

      Note: external links (links that are not to pages in your web) may appear as broken, but are shown with a question mark instead of a broken link icon.

  6. If necessary, fix broken hyperlinks.
    1. Double-click on the broken link information in the report.
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    2. Browse to the correct file, then click the Replace button.

Part 2: Publishing the site files on the Faculty Web Server

Before publishing, check to make sure that your site (in your staging area) is complete and thoroughly tested.

  1. Choose File > Publish Web.
  2. Specify the location for publishing your Web by typing the following path: http://faculty.nmu.edu/yourid

    Replacing "yourid" with your NMU ID, or with the FrontPage Web folder name assigned to you.

    For example, Wolfgang Mozart would type http://faculty.nmu.edu/wmozart:


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    You will prompted to login with your NMU ID (yourid) and ADS domain password during this process:

    If you get a 3 field login dialog box, type your NMU ID in lower case, type your password in lower case, and for Domain Name type ADS.


    If you get a 2 field login dialog box (as in the graphic below) enter your user ID information in the form ads\yourid, replacing yourid with your NMU ID. Type your password in lowercase.

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  3. Click the Options button and select a publication option:
    • Publish changed pages only. FrontPage compares the files on your local Web to the files on the Web server, and only those files that are newer than those on the destination hard drive or Web server are published. However, files that have been marked Don't Publish will not be published.
      Note: To mark specific pages s Don't Publish, see Marking Specific Pages as "Don't Publish" on the FrontPage Tips page.
    • Publish all pages, overwriting any already on the destination. The files from the local Web site will overwrite all files on the Web server, even if the files on the Web server are newer. Be very careful with this option, because once files are overwritten, you can't get the previous versions back.
  4. Click Publish.
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  5. If FrontPage finds a page on the faculty Web server that does not exist in your source files, it will ask you if you wish to remove that file.

    This feature helps you get rid of unused files that would otherwise clutter your Web site and use up disk space unnecessarily.

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  6. Click the "Click here to view your published web site" link, and verify that your Web was successfully published.
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    Note: If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

Part 3: Revising your Web site

To make changes to your Web site, simply open the files in FrontPage, make the revisions, and publish the revised pages.

Page Last Updated: June 17, 2008