"Step 4: View Your Page On The Internet
To access your web site, in the address bar of your browser, enter:
www.frontiernet.net/~username/ (where 'username' is the first part of
your email address before the '@' symbol)
Note: The method described above will allow you to reach your web page if
you have named your initial page "index.html". If you have not named your
initial page "index.html", then you'll need to add a bit more to the web site
address to which you are browsing, to be able to view your web page. For
example, if you named your web page "sunrise.html", then to view the page,
you'd need to browse to
http://www.frontiernet.net/~username/sunrise.html
(again, where 'username' is the first part of your email address before the
'@' symbol)."
I tried entering the name of my initial page and it just didn't work.
When I called Technical Support is when they told me I needed to create an
index using FrontPage. I DO understand that a Website Index is different
from an Index you can create in Word. I was hoping that Word had a way to
create a Website Index. Since you can write and create webpages in Word, I
had high expectations of Word's capabilities and was hopeful it could be done
in Word.
Thanks.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
As Charles said, you do NOT understand what they have told you. If anyone
gave you the idea that you could create the "index" in FrontPage, then it
clearly is not what Word means by an index. Depending on the type of hosting
software used on the server, the home page of your site must be named either
"index" or another default name. Here's how Jim Buyens explains it in
"Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out":
"If your Web site doesn't yet contain a home page, the solution is simple.
Click the New Page button on the Standard toolbar. FrontPage creates a blank
home page and places it at the top of your Navigation view hierarchy. Its
file name is index.htm in a disk-based Web site or the Web server's default
page name on a server-based Web site."
Your Web host has clearly told you that your home page must be named
index.htm. This means that whatever you are currently using as your home
page must be renamed. Visitors to your Web site will not necessarily see
this as the page name: they'll just see it as the top page of your Web site.
For example, if you go to my site at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/,
that URL is what you'll see in your browser, but the name of that page (as
created in FrontPage) is http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/index.htm.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Eridyard407" wrote in message
...
I COMPLETELY understand what they want. I spoke with them on the phone
yesterday. They said they need an index. If I can't do it myself then I
need to do one in FrontPage or some other program, but they need an index.
And I know it can be done in Word, I just don't know how to do it. I
really
don't want to have to go to the expense of buying another program if I
don't
have to. If there's a free program out there, then I'll go with that. I
don't want to sound harsh, but my money is going out to more than enough
hands as it is. By the time I end up paying my bills, paying for gas and
buying food every month, I have precious little left over. In fact, I
usually have nothing left over. Hence my need to do this without shelling
out more money. Please allow me to now stop off the soapbox. Thanks.
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
I think you need to get back with your web host and *make* them explain
what
they want in terms you understand. There are too many free services out
there for you to be wasting your time with one that won't help you.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"Eridyard407" wrote in message
...
I tried renaming my homepage to index and it didn't work. There's got
to
be
a way in Word to make this work.
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
I think what Citymax means is that your home page has to be named
index.htm
or index.html.
And I have to tell you, Word can be used to create websites but
that's
like
using a shoe for a hammer. Even Publisher does a better job and I
don't
recommend that either. Get a real web designing program and use that.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"Eridyard407" wrote in
message
...
How do I create a website index in Word? I am transferring my
website
to
my
ISP personal webpage space because it's free and I won't have to
pay
$20/month for hosting. I an FTP'g my content pages and they say it
won't
work if I don't have an index. I currently do not have an index.
I
created
the website on Citymax and they don't say how to do it and there's
no
template for it there. The ISP doesn't say how to do it. I've
searched
MS's
knowledge base, templates and the web and I can't find instructions
on
how
to
do this. Thanks!