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Saving a Copy of Your Web Site

If your web site has already been constructed or begun you should transfer every folder and file from the remote site to your local web folder. Keep them organized the exact same way (the directory trees should be the same on both sides) and you will have an exact duplicate of your web site on your computer. Once you have it all on your local folder you can edit pages locally (even when you are offline). Click "view" and they will come up in notepad, hopefully. (If FrontPage editor comes up by accident DON'T use that. It will mess up everything.) Make changes, save changes. Go back on line and upload the new files, overwriting the old ones on the server. Make sure the filenames don't change.

Now you should be able to browse your site even while you are offline by going to your web folder and opening index.html. All the local links should work and you can view it while off line.

Repeat, don't use FrontPage or FrontPage Express unless you are going to do your whole web site with it. That will alter your code and we don't want that. So if you are on your home computer edit with Notepad. Wordpad is OK too if the files are large.

On the other hand if you are sure you want to publish your web site from start to finish with FrontPage you may. Just ask me to turn on FrontPage extensions for your account. But remember I don't know anything about FrontPage publishing so I can't help you there.

Copyright © 2003 Joseph Perry, Greyfort Communications