Front Page Basics

[rekclaw]

Howdy,

I'm looking for some conceptual assistance with Front Page. The web site that I have been lending assistance to is setup so that modifications to the HTML (when saved) updates the production web site directly. My experience with Microsoft products as a programmer makes me think that this is not the way that Front Page is truely designed to work. I would expect the standard steps to be:

1. Establish a copy of your web site on your local drive.
2. Make whatever modifications are necessary to the copy on your local machine.
3. When you are satisified with you changes, you would somehow publish the final version to the production web site.

Thus, to reiterate the question, does one normally update the production site directly or does one publish to the production site from a test site. If option two is the correct answer, then how does one accomplish this?

Thanks much

Rekclaw

 

[DeZiner]

You can open a web directly if you have permission, but who in the world would "play" with the production site? Keep a copy of the web on the drive, change as needed then use front[ages publish feature or ftp to production server. DeZiner
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