Maintaining Your Web Site with
MAC FrontPage 1.0

This is a self training guide for using FrontPage for MAC's.  LoebigInk does not currently offer this training.

Note: FrontPage is designed to facilitate "remote editing" -- meaning that you open and save files on the web server rather than uploading web pages you've created on your local hard disk. The following lists the steps needed to connect to your account using Mac FrontPage 1.0 (FrontPage 97). Windows users should go to the FrontPage 98 and FrontPage 2000 tutorials.

Note that these instructions do not describe FrontPage's "publish" option. We feel the remote editing feature of FrontPage is its most powerful feature and have provided instructions to using it in preference to "publish".

Editing Instructions for FrontPage 1.0 (Mac)

1. Unlike all other HTML editors for the Mac, FrontPage 1.0 is designed assuming you'll be opening, editing and saving files on the remote web server rather than to your local hard disk.

2. Connect to the Internet. Note that if you've got a pre G3/G4 Mac this step (and other steps below) may take 1-3 minutes to complete.

3. Locate FrontPage Explorer and open it. You'll be presented with a dialog that lets you either "Create a new FrontPage Web" or "Open a FrontPage Web".

Select "Open a FrontPage Web" and press the "OK" button.

3. After you select "Open a FrontPage Web" a new window will appear with "web server or file location" written along the top. Type in your web address (e.g., www.mysite.com) and press "List Webs." After 1-3 minutes (no kidding) you will see "<Root Web>" appear in the lower field of the window. Press "OK."

4. Now supply your username and password in the window that says "This operation requires author permission for FrontPage Web".

username: your assigned username
password: your frontpage login password
Press OK.

5. After correctly supplying your username and password The FrontPage window will split into two areas, or frames. The left-hand frame lists all the files on your website. The right-hand frame shows the file from the list that you've currently selected. To open a particular file in FrontPage editor, just select a file by clicking onit once in the left-hand frame and double-click on it (it will have the largest icon) in the right-hand frame. After a few seconds to 1 minute (depending on your Mac's speed), the FrontPage editor will automatically open in a separate window with your file.

6. Edit the webpage within FrontPage Editor.

7. Select "Save" from the File Menu in FrontPage Editor. Your changes will save immediately to your website -- instead of to a copy on your local hard disk. This "instant save" is FrontPage's most powerful feature.

8. To move any HTML files currently on your local hard disk into your remote website, select the "Import" function from the File Menu of FrontPage Explorer (not the Editor!). Select the "Add File" button in the window and locate the file you want to upload on your hard disk. You can add several files in succession this way. Use the "add folder" button to put an entire folder into the import list. When you're done press "OK". The file(s) will upload onto your website in a single step.

9. Normally you'll do all your work with the files on the website. If you need to export a file back to your hard disk (usually to have a backup rather than for editing) select the file you want to move in the FrontPage Explorer left-hand frame and select "Export" from the File menu of FrontPage Explorer.

10. The next time you run FrontPage all you'll need to do is select OK and then type in your password to connect to your website.

Note on size: The reason we haven't recommended FrontPage Mac 1.0 in the past is that it has trouble with large websites. If you get hundreds of thousands of files on your website FrontPage Mac 1.0 may unpredictably begin to crash. This is due to the way it allocates memory on the Mac -- it apparently has a limit on the number of pages in a website it can handle.