Publishing your Web site with Microsoft Publisher 2003

Details needed To publish your website you will need the login and password for your nethost hosting account.

Step One
Select "Publish to the Web..." from the "File" Menu.

Step Two
A warning box will appear explaining the need for a web hosting account. Simply click "Ok" (you may like to tick the check box to avoid this warning in the future).

Step Three
You must now select where to publish your website.

First click the down arrow next to "Desktop".

Next select "Add/Modify FTP Locations" (see second image below).

Step Four
You now can enter the ftp details for your hosting account. These details are contained in the Welcome Email you received when your hosting acccount was setup. Once all the details (in red below) have been entered click "Ok".

Step Five
The new FTP Address has been added. You can now select this address as the location to publish to, either by double clicking it, or selecting it (click once) and clicking "Open".

Once selected you will see a list of fodlers - these are folders in your hosting account on the server. You must select "public_html" by double-clicking it (see second image below).

Step Six
You now need to specify a filename for the homepage of your site. We recommend you call this page index.html (There may already be an index.html file uploaded, if so simply double click it to overwrite).

Step Seven
Publisher will not begin uploading your website. Depending on its size this may take quite some time and you may not be able to use Publisher while this is occuring.

Once Publisher has uploaded the site we suggest you visit your website and ensure everything has uploaded correctly and is functioning. If updates or changes are required simply make these in Publisher and follow these same steps to overwrite the existing website.