Think twice before you Publish...
Recently, my friend wanted to publish a website to a FTP sever using Office Publisher 2003. His attempt has failed miserably and ultimately he ended up writing a lengthy Blog post on how dissatisfied he is about Microsoft, in general.
The root problem for the story was that, there was no way he could specify an FTP address to publish his web files in Office Publisher.
In Windows, there are several ways you can Publish your files, it could be HTTP publishing (using FrontPage Extensions) to a Web Server, FTP publishing to an FTP Server or File Copy publishing to a local network share, etc. This is a general theme in Windows; be it website publishing or file uploading to an online file storage, such as MSN file storage.
As an example, to create a FTP location to upload your files, go to your My Network Places and create a "Network Place" with your FTP IP and login information. This will act and behave much like a "folder" for Windows where you can copy and move files just like you would in any other folder.
Going back to my friend's problem, in Office Publisher when the "Save As" dialog is shown, all he should do is select the proper Network Place to "Publish the Site". Simple...
The rational is, Office Publisher (or FrontPage for that matter) doesn't care where and how you publish your website. All it does is communicate and synchronize a Folder -- be it local or remote!
The root problem for the story was that, there was no way he could specify an FTP address to publish his web files in Office Publisher.
In Windows, there are several ways you can Publish your files, it could be HTTP publishing (using FrontPage Extensions) to a Web Server, FTP publishing to an FTP Server or File Copy publishing to a local network share, etc. This is a general theme in Windows; be it website publishing or file uploading to an online file storage, such as MSN file storage.
As an example, to create a FTP location to upload your files, go to your My Network Places and create a "Network Place" with your FTP IP and login information. This will act and behave much like a "folder" for Windows where you can copy and move files just like you would in any other folder.
Going back to my friend's problem, in Office Publisher when the "Save As" dialog is shown, all he should do is select the proper Network Place to "Publish the Site". Simple...
The rational is, Office Publisher (or FrontPage for that matter) doesn't care where and how you publish your website. All it does is communicate and synchronize a Folder -- be it local or remote!
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