Publishing a new site

[Guest]

My daughter has just created a website for me but does not know how to
publish it we thought we had it but when we open our site we see a white page
with index of/ and the pages below that what have we done wrong?

Regards

 

[David Berry]

Have you signed up with a web host and purchased a domain name (ex:
www.myweb.com) ? If you have they should have given you a user name and
password. If so, open your local web in FrontPage and choose File, Publish
Site. Enter your domain name (ex: http://www.myweb.com) and it will prompt
you for a user name and password. Enter them and FrontPage will publish
your site.

 

[Guest]

Ok I did this and when I enter my site name majesticcreationsonline.com I get
this white page with info on front and that is it. We as you can see have
never used front page but was told it was the program to use. My doughter
did a wonderful job designing the site but we are stuck now and don't know
what to do. Thank you for any help you can lend.

Regards
Rhonda

 

[David Berry]

It looks like your web host has "allow directory browsing" turned on OR the
name you gave your home page isn't correct. The name of the "home pages" is
set by the server and is usually index.htm. index.html, default.htm, or
default.html. When I go to your site I see a directory listing of files
(http://majesticcreationsonline.com/).

It looks like you named your home page index.htm because when I click on it
I see the home page (http://majesticcreationsonline.com/index.htm), however
that may not be the correct home page name. Contact your web host and ask
them what the default home page name should be or ask then to turn off
directory browsing if it IS supposed to be index.htm. Once you know the
correct home page name then open your web in FrontPage and rename index.htm
to whatever they tell you it should be. FrontPage will update all the links
to the home page for you. Then republish the site.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. Thank you... It worked all I did was change it to HTML and it
now works. Again thank you for your help.

Regards
Rhonda

 

[David Berry]

Glad to help. And your daughter did a great job for a first timer! I like
the site and the theme.