E-mail this pageBasic Web Site Management
Creating a new folder
To create a new folder on your web site, select File|New...Folder from the menu. By default, the new folder will be called New_folder , but you can rename it immediately by typing a new name. Your folder names should be single words, without punctuation marks or spaces.
Creating a new web page
To create a new page on your web site, you can click on the New Page
button 
or select File|New...Page
. Doing so will set FrontPage to its Page View
, and will introduce a new blank webpage on the right side of the screen. From this point, all you need to do (!) is add your page content and save the file.
By default, FrontPage will assign your new page a working filename: the first new page in each folder will be assigned a name of either default.htm (on the research.plattsburgh.edu and faculty.plattsburgh.edu servers) or index.html . The presence of a default page ensures that visitors who don't know the precise name of a file will nonetheless be treated to a web page instead of an error message or a listing of all of the files in your web area. You should have a default (or index) page in each folder, whether you're planning to put something on this page or not: such a page prevents idle browsing.
If you already have a default (or index) page in the folder when you click on the New Page button, the new page will have a working filename of newpage.htm (or some derivation thereof): you will have the opportunity to give the file a new name when you save it, but you should remember that your filenames for HTML files should be single words and that the filename must be completed by a .htm or .html extension.
Editing files on your web site
From the FrontPage Explorer's Folders view, double-click on any HTML file to open it in FrontPage's Editor. If you'd rather edit the file using some other program, right-click on the file and then select the program you'd like to use to edit the file. (For a Cascading Style Sheet, for instance, you'll want to right-click and select Text Editor).
Copying a file from your hard drive to your FrontPage web
Using the Windows Explorer, select the file (or files) you'd like to add to your web site. After you've selected the files, click Edit|Copy on the Windows Explorer menu. Then activate FrontPage's Folders view, select the folder in which you'd like the files to appear, and select Edit|Paste from the FrontPage's menu.
Alternately, if you have the FrontPage and the Windows Explorer both open on your screen, you can drag a file directly from the Windows Explorer into your FrontPage website. (This does not work the other way, though--to move a file from your FrontPage site to your local hard drive, you'll have to use FrontPage's File|Export function.)
Creating a Subweb
A Subweb is actually a website unto itself, one that uses your main website as a starting point. It differs from a simple folder on your website by having its own set of permissions for authoring, and browsing: it's possible, by creating a subweb , to set up an area (or areas) on your website that will prompt site visitors for a password and will only grant selected visitors entry. While this is a useful mechanism for keeping the general public away from particularly sensitive course materials, you should take pains not to hide too much of what you're doing...
To create a subweb, select File|New|Web. You'll see the following dialog:
You can, from this point, select what type of web you'd like to create, and then indicate where you'd like that web to appear. If you want to create a subweb, you'll have to enter the address you'd like your new website to have--i.e. http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/your.name/newweb Please note, though, that any website you create must be a subweb : you won't be able to create a website that doesn't spring from the same root as your own--you won't be able to create, for instance, http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/newweb.
Selecting the "Add to Current Web" option, will have the effect of adding a set of template pages added to your existing website.
Selecting the "Secure connector required" is not recommended: it's not a feature supported by our server at this time.
If you're creating a subweb, your next step shoud be to ensure that the security settings are as you'd want them to be. This topic is dealt with below.
Adjusting Permissions for your Web Site
On the faculty.plattsburgh.edu server, you have the option of adjusting the permissions that govern both authoring and viewing access to your website. Please note that you shouldn't , under any circumstances, remove the "Administer/Author/Browse" permissions that have been set up for you and for the Instructional Technology staff--doing so will, in one case, remove your own ability to make any further changes to your pages, and in the other, will make it difficult for anyone to help you if you run into trouble. So what can you do? Well, you can restrict browse access to your web site (or, more practically, to a subweb you've created under your main website), and by doing so, you can ensure that some materials on your website are accessible only to your students and not to the world at large. Similarly, you could give a colleague "Author" permission on your website, allowing for collaborations. To make alterations to the permissions, select Tools|Security|Permissions from the FrontPage menu. Before doing so, you should carefully consider that you are liable for everything posted on the web site that's been established in your name.
Changing your Password for your Web Site
At this time, you are not able to alter your password on the itrc.plattsburgh.edu server or on the facult.plattsburgh.edu server.
Using a "Wizard" to add files from a template
FrontPage is installed with a number of Wizards to facilitate the creation of entire sites (or collections of web pages) from templates. Although you're welcome to give all of them a try, you're likely to find that the most useful among them is the Discussion Web Wizard , which speeds you through the steps of creating an online discussion forum. Added to the Wizards that come as part of FrontPage is a custom-made Plattsburgh Course Web Wizard . Made expressly for teaching sites at Plattsburgh State, this Wizard sets up the framework for an entire course, including an online discussion forum.
The Wizards are pretty self-explanatory once you get them running, but you should take particular care to read all of the instructions that appear in the dialog boxes explaining the options you can select from: it's possible to overwrite vital files if you're not careful using the wizards.
For step-by-step instructions on using the Discussion Web Wizard to create an online discussion forum for your class, please click here.
For step-by-step instructions on using the Plattsburgh Web Wizard to create a course framework, please click here.
Applying or disabling "Shared Borders"
FrontPage allows the creation and use of "Shared Borders." The shared borders are really just HTML pages that get grafted onto web pages. The shared borders are part and parcel of the dreaded Navigation view (there's a warning about this on the Views page on this site...), but they can also be applied using Format|Shared Borders menu option in FrontPage. Selecting Format|Shared Borders introduces the following dialog window:
Be careful in applying Shared Borders to all pages--doing so will produce the results you requested, but not, perhaps, the results you had hoped for. It's unlikely, though not impossible, that you'll actually want to share the same borders across your entire website. And, regrettably, you cannot change the contents of a shared border on one page without having that change be mirrored on other pages that use the same border.
Last Word on FrontPage site management
You can get by without using all of the information on this page, but it's useful to know where you can find it when you need it. At the very least, you should be in a position to create new HTML files and save them, copy them, paste them into your web, and rename them. If you've mastered that part of the FrontPage Explorer, you'll find that you have mastered the most important part.
Changing your password for your web site
The faculty and research web servers authenticate against the LDAP/PSU Domain username and password. You can, if you like, change your LDAP/PSU Domain password by visiting http://passwords.plattsburgh.edu/ , but bear in mind that this will change the login you'll be using for your desktop as well as for access to your web site.
Comments or questions? Please contact Dr. Peter Friesen , Instructional Technology Coordinator, Plattsburgh State University.