I recently bought a computer with a Windows XP(home edition) operating system. I have a website at dialupnet.com with I formerly managed using the Frontpage Express and Web Publishing Wizard versions included for free with Internet Explorer 5. The Web Publishing Wizard included with Windows XP Home Ed. doesn't seem to allow me to publish to my dialupnet site. What can I do?

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Creating Web pages one-by-one is certainly a useful task, but realistically, you can't present much content on a single page. All but the simplest projects require interrelated Web pages numbering in the dozens, hundreds, or more. Additionally, because each Web page typically uses several constituent files, the total number of files to create, interconnect, and maintain over time can be intimidating. Site management is an area that many beginning Web designers fail to appreciate. Hard experience is frequently the best teacher in this regard, and if you want to try this approach, go ahead. But if you'd rather learn from the experience of experts, please consider the approaches described in this chapter. Microsoft FrontPage 2002 comes equipped with a broad collection of highly useful tools that can help you create a well-organized site and keep it organized over time. As your expertise grows, you'll probably come to appreciate these features even more than the WYSIWYG editor that possibly drew you to FrontPage in the first place.


On Monday, July 29, 2002 at 2:03 pm, George Roberts wrote:
>I recently bought a computer with a Windows XP(home edition) operating system. I
>have a website at dialupnet.com with I formerly managed using the Frontpage Express
>and Web Publishing Wizard versions included for free with Internet Explorer 5. The
>Web Publishing Wizard included with Windows XP Home Ed. doesn't seem to allow me
>to publish to my dialupnet site. What can I do?
>
>

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Install (1)wincommander and your done ??(1)(you publishing software) greetings and good luck

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With XP, many of the old features are gone. MS decided to hose their customers over and make the Web Publishing Wizard only work with "their" selected choices or those hosting sites that would pay them to be included. Linux is looking better all the time for those of us who are serious. At www.ipswitch.com/downloads/index.html they have a limited edition FTP program which you can download. Third party software is where Microsoft wants you to go anyway, right? Or you can open up your "DOS window" and use FTP. This works well except that you have to learn the commands (which is something us old-timers have been doing for years). You also can only do one file at a time this way and you have to switch the mode to ASCII for html files and to binary for images and such. That's about all I can suggest since Microsoft has decided to operate like Apple and target their systems towards people who don't or can't do much with their computers. For us techies, they just create one nightmare after the other with every new release. Hope this helps. You can also complain to Mircosoft about it but it may take a lot of voices before Microsofts ears are undeafened.


On Monday, July 29, 2002 at 2:03 pm, George Roberts wrote:
>I recently bought a computer with a Windows XP(home edition) operating system. I
>have a website at dialupnet.com with I formerly managed using the Frontpage Express
>and Web Publishing Wizard versions included for free with Internet Explorer 5. The
>Web Publishing Wizard included with Windows XP Home Ed. doesn't seem to allow me
>to publish to my dialupnet site. What can I do?
>
>

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The file tranfer features of Windows XP Home Edition are actually much better than 
the Windows 98 Web Publishing Wizard.  You can create a folder that will open ANY 
web site (to which you have FTP access) and allow you to transfer files using usual 
Windows drag and drop.

You do this in "My Network Places," from the Start menu.  Open My Network Places, 
then click "Add a Network Place."  Then follow the instructions.  You'll be entering 
in a URL to your site, a user ID, and a password, all of which should be available 
from your ISP.  Note that if your site is http://www.mysite.com, you'll want to enter 
ftp://www.mysite.com in the address field.  Once you're done, there will be a new 
folder in My Network Places.  If you double-click this folder, Windows XP will log 
in and show the files in the window.  You may then drag files and folders into and 
out of this window at will.  You can even set permissions of files on Unix hosts 
(right-click the file, then go to Properties...)!

I still use third-party FTP software (WS_FTP) most of the time for my clients, because 
it opens windows showing both remote and local files.  But for just quickly dropping 
a file into one of my own sites, this method is very nice.

I do have two complaints about this otherwise very convenient feature.  First, if 
you double click a file (say, a .html file) Windows XP treats it as a local file. 
 Second, if you put your web folder on the desktop, you can't drag it back to My 
Network Places.  Very strange.

For more info, go to Windows XP Help (from the Start menu).  Type in "FTP" as your 
search keyword.

HTH,
Jason






On Tuesday, May 6, 2003 at 7:57 pm, Cal wrote:
>With XP, many of the old features are gone.  MS decided to hose their customers 
over 
>and make the Web Publishing Wizard only work with "their" selected choices or those 
>hosting sites that would pay them to be included.  Linux is looking better all the 
>time for those of us who are serious.
>
>At www.ipswitch.com/downloads/index.html they have a limited edition FTP program 
>which you can download.  Third party software is where Microsoft wants you to go 
>anyway, right?  
>
>Or you can open up your "DOS window" and use FTP.  This works well except that you 
>have to learn the commands (which is something us old-timers have been doing for 
>years).  You also can only do one file at a time this way and you have to switch 
>the mode to ASCII for html files and to binary for images and such.
>
>That's about all I can suggest since Microsoft has decided to operate like Apple 
>and target their systems towards people who don't or can't do much with their computers. 
> For us techies, they just create one nightmare after the other with every new release.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>You can also complain to Mircosoft about it but it may take a lot of voices before 
>Microsofts ears are undeafened.
>
>

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Ha ha, Using FTP with Windows XP is easy without any problems. Open internet explorer ftp://username:password@ftp.ftpdomain.com For example ftp://lycosuser:lycospwd@ftp.lycos.com Of course the site should support FTP. Before doing this, set the option of Internet Explorer to see FTP folder as a windows folder.


On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 2:06 pm, Jason Justian wrote:

>The file tranfer features of Windows XP Home Edition are actually much better than 
>the Windows 98 Web Publishing Wizard.  You can create a folder that will open ANY 
>web site (to which you have FTP access) and allow you to transfer files using usual 
>Windows drag and drop.
>
>You do this in "My Network Places," from the Start menu.  Open My Network Places, 
>then click "Add a Network Place."  Then follow the instructions.  You'll be entering 
>in a URL to your site, a user ID, and a password, all of which should be available 
>from your ISP.  Note that if your site is http://www.mysite.com, you'll want to 
enter 
>ftp://www.mysite.com in the address field.  Once you're done, there will be a new 
>folder in My Network Places.  If you double-click this folder, Windows XP will log 
>in and show the files in the window.  You may then drag files and folders into and 
>out of this window at will.  You can even set permissions of files on Unix hosts 
>(right-click the file, then go to Properties...)!
>
>I still use third-party FTP software (WS_FTP) most of the time for my clients, because 
>it opens windows showing both remote and local files.  But for just quickly dropping 
>a file into one of my own sites, this method is very nice.
>
>I do have two complaints about this otherwise very convenient feature.  First, if 
>you double click a file (say, a .html file) Windows XP treats it as a local file. 
> Second, if you put your web folder on the desktop, you can't drag it back to My 
>Network Places.  Very strange.
>
>For more info, go to Windows XP Help (from the Start menu).  Type in "FTP" as your 
>search keyword.
>
>HTH,
>Jason
>
>

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"For us techies" seems like an outdated self-qualification given the MS-DOS advice...Sorry, couldn't resist... Even without knowing much about computers I can think of a dozen convenient ways to ftp under Windows XP. For an avid Word user, I might suggest this: create a Word file, say, FTP_Links.doc. Type all you hosting website names, one per line. To each website name, add a link (by pressing a globe with a chain link icon) of the format ftp://username:password@hostwebsite.address Then, every time you need to ftp files, click the link you need at the moment, and drag-and-drop as much as you like. For a single site/single file frequent update, consider creating a single-button macro along the same lines. Whether this method is the best depends on user personality; there are many other ways, of course, including tuning the Web Publishing Wizard.


On Tuesday, May 6, 2003 at 7:57 pm, Cal wrote:
>With XP, many of the old features are gone. MS decided to hose their customers over
>and make the Web Publishing Wizard only work with "their" selected choices or those
>hosting sites that would pay them to be included. Linux is looking better all the
>time for those of us who are serious.
>
>At www.ipswitch.com/downloads/index.html they have a limited edition FTP program
>which you can download. Third party software is where Microsoft wants you to go
>anyway, right?
>
>Or you can open up your "DOS window" and use FTP. This works well except that you
>have to learn the commands (which is something us old-timers have been doing for
>years). You also can only do one file at a time this way and you have to switch
>the mode to ASCII for html files and to binary for images and such.
>
>That's about all I can suggest since Microsoft has decided to operate like Apple
>and target their systems towards people who don't or can't do much with their computers.
> For us techies, they just create one nightmare after the other with every new release.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>You can also complain to Mircosoft about it but it may take a lot of voices before
>Microsofts ears are undeafened.
>
>

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This is useful advice, but this requires you to know exactly which individual files to copy via ftp. The nice thing about Web Publishing Wizard in Windows 98 was that it knew about Front Page conventions and figured out all the necessary files to be copied along with the .htm file or folder you specified. Is this functionality gone with the XP version?


On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 2:06 pm, Jason Justian wrote:

>The file tranfer features of Windows XP Home Edition are actually much better than 
>the Windows 98 Web Publishing Wizard.  You can create a folder that will open ANY 
>web site (to which you have FTP access) and allow you to transfer files using usual 
>Windows drag and drop.
>
>You do this in "My Network Places," from the Start menu.  Open My Network Places, 
>then click "Add a Network Place."  Then follow the instructions.  You'll be entering 
>in a URL to your site, a user ID, and a password, all of which should be available 
>from your ISP.  Note that if your site is http://www.mysite.com, you'll want to 
enter 
>ftp://www.mysite.com in the address field.  Once you're done, there will be a new 
>folder in My Network Places.  If you double-click this folder, Windows XP will log 
>in and show the files in the window.  You may then drag files and folders into and 
>out of this window at will.  You can even set permissions of files on Unix hosts 
>(right-click the file, then go to Properties...)!
>
>I still use third-party FTP software (WS_FTP) most of the time for my clients, because 
>it opens windows showing both remote and local files.  But for just quickly dropping 
>a file into one of my own sites, this method is very nice.
>
>I do have two complaints about this otherwise very convenient feature.  First, if 
>you double click a file (say, a .html file) Windows XP treats it as a local file. 
> Second, if you put your web folder on the desktop, you can't drag it back to My 
>Network Places.  Very strange.
>
>For more info, go to Windows XP Help (from the Start menu).  Type in "FTP" as your 
>search keyword.
>
>HTH,
>Jason
>
>

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I've been referring to this thread since experiencing the same annoyance, and finally came across an answer to "Can I do it myself?". I can't, but maybe some of the rest of you can. :) Here's a link to the MS web page on "Publishing Wizards". Adding a registry key to the registry so that your site shows up in the Wizard is easy enough. HOWEVER, the key links the wizard to a HTML page on the your site that links to an XML document that directs the behavior of the wizard after that point. Way beyond my capabilities. :( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/publishing_wizard/pubwiz.asp

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Problem Solved! Windows XP Home and adding an http network place. We did it by trial, error and frustration... first, on another machine with XP Pro, we copied the XP Pro network place to the "My shared Documents" folder on the XP Home machine, (through the network). Then moved the folder to "My Network Places"... it works! and now you can just publish a web site with FrontPage as normal. Or if you login to make changes live, the network place still works for building new pages, adding hyperlinks or images.


On Monday, July 29, 2002 at 2:03 pm, George Roberts wrote:
>I recently bought a computer with a Windows XP(home edition) operating system. I
>have a website at dialupnet.com with I formerly managed using the Frontpage Express
>and Web Publishing Wizard versions included for free with Internet Explorer 5. The
>Web Publishing Wizard included with Windows XP Home Ed. doesn't seem to allow me
>to publish to my dialupnet site. What can I do?
>
>

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I tried this but it directs you to MSN not to your created web folder. Help! I have tried several of the suggested methods, set up a webfolder for my webpage, and it says "cannot publish your file to the web" when it is done.


On Sunday, May 9, 2004 at 5:47 am, Roberta wrote:
>I've been referring to this thread since experiencing the same annoyance, and finally
>came across an answer to "Can I do it myself?". I can't, but maybe some of the rest
>of you can. :) Here's a link to the MS web page on "Publishing Wizards".
>
>Adding a registry key to the registry so that your site shows up in the Wizard is
>easy enough. HOWEVER, the key links the wizard to a HTML page on the your site that
>links to an XML document that directs the behavior of the wizard after that point.
> Way beyond my capabilities. :(
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/publishing_wizard/pubwiz.asp

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