Creating and Managing FrontPage 2000 Web Sites

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Creating and Managing FrontPage 2000 Web Sites

• Module 1
• Duration Half Day
• By Marnie Hutcheson

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Introduction

• Web Sites have grown very complex
• Both Documents (content) and applications must
  work together
• A Web domain is made up of multiple web sites and
  subwebs
• Each site can have its own authors, developers,
  users, applications, content, search engine, etc
• Good management is critical

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Web Domains Sites

• A typical Web Domain
• Many web sites
• Virtual directories
• Mixed Internet and Intranet
• Some Secure, some not
• Content and Applications combined

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Some Things To Consider

• The development environment
• The production environment
• Quality assurance and testing
• The publishing process
• How everything arrives in the production
  environment

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The Environments

• The Web Content development environment should be
  separate from the program development environment
  (stuff happens)
• Both the development environments need to be
  separate from the the production environment
• There should be a pre-production environment for
  final integration and testing
• They should be on different servers

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Some Things to Consider

• Make sure that the required development
  environments are available
• Institute naming conventions and versioning for
  files
• Create and maintain web sites on a development
  server for all of their production sites
• Test all content and applications in a safe
  environment before they are published to
  production

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The Process
Content Dev.
ContentSites
Integration, TestChange Mgmt
Art and Copy
Application Sites
Application Dev.
Server, System and Network Administration Backup
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FrontPage Site Management

• FrontPage isnt just an HTML Editor
• It is
• Web content management
• Web content creation
• Forms processing and database linkage tools
• Quality process management
• scripting and DTD controls
• Link, performance, and page reports
• Web Publishing
• Etc

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FrontPage Site Management

• The IIS Administrator enables FrontPage on a web
  domain
• FrontPage site management includes 3 roles
• Administrator
• Author
• User (Browse)

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Set up steps

•   (What the IIS Administrator does)
• Create the Web Domain
• The IIS Administrator must create a Web domain on
  the server and install the server extensions
  (previously the FrontPage Server Extensions) on
  the site.
• Distribute a hosts file on the network to make
  the new domains visible to the right people or
  add the appropriate entries in DNS
• Create Windows accounts for everyone who will
  Author or Administer the FrontPage Web Sites
• Set FrontPage Administration permissions for the
  domains

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Demo

• Setup a web domain on IIS

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The FrontPage Client 

• (What the FrontPage Administrator does)
• Create a FrontPage Web sites (subwebs)
• Set Browse and Author permissions for it using
  the FrontPage client

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Creating Subwebs

• Open a Web domain or Create a Subweb
• Start by
• File gtOpen Web

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Create a New FrontPage Web

• Select File gt New gt Web
• Make sure that you specify the correct URL

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Lab 1

• Create a FrontPage Web
• Experiment with the various site wizards
• Notice where the web site is created, is it a
  root domain site or a subweb?

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Set Browse and Author Permissions

• Select Tools gtSecurity gt Permissions
• Select the Users Tab to add individuals

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Create and Import Content

• (What the FrontPage Author does)
• We will spend the next 3 modules on this one

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Publishing Content

• Whatever you do, dont click on the Publish
  button
• This is meant for home users with only one web
  site You could find yourself overwriting your
  main website with sales data
• Use File gt Publish Web and specify the exact
  location you want to publish to

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Publishing Content

• If you have successfully published this web to a
  site previously, that URL will appear in the
  location
• The option to Publish changed pages only is the
  default
• Notice the option to Include subwebsand Use SSL

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Related Technologies

• Web Folders How they work

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Related Technologies

• Web Folders How to Set them up

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Related Technologies

• Web Folders One more thing

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Related Technologies

• Index Server and WAIS
• WAIS
• Light weight works locally on a site so no
  performance hit
• No administrator required its automatically set
  up with the FP Server Extensions
• Only indexes HTML and TXT files

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Related Technologies

• Microsoft Index (Search) Server, CI
• Indexes all kinds of documents can even index
  content in SQL databases
• Scope can include and exclude network folders,
  external URLs etc.
• Requires an administrator to set up each catalog

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Related Technologies

• Index Servers Selecting the right one for the
  job

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Related Technologies

• Index Servers Enabling WAIS on all FrontPage
  Webs in a Server

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Related Technologies

• Index Servers Enabling WAIS on a specific
  FrontPage Web in a Server

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Please Complete Lab
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Lab 2

• Lab 2 Create a new empty web and import the
  Examples in the Labs web site that we will use
  for the rest of the class

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Lab 2

• First, create an empty web in FrontPage 2000
• File gt New gtWeb
• Select Empty Web
• Name the subwebfor example http//ripley/labs
• OK and Finish

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Lab 2

• Next, import the subweb with the class Labs
• File gt Import gt From Web
• Specify the URL given to you by the instructor.
  For examplehttp//www.ideva.com/FrontPage2000/la
  bs
• Click Next See the image on the next slide

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Lab 2
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Lab 2

• Click Finish
• Click Yes (to import anyway -when it tells you
  this is a FrontPage web and you should log on and
  publish)
• Look at the files in your new web

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Appendix

• A Glossary of Web Terms (Especially FrontPage
  Web Terms and Web Folders)
• http//www.ideva.com/techarticles/glossary_of_web_
  terms.htm

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So, what is a hosts file?

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Review Questions