Microsoft Publisher - ISP Doesn't Support Publisher 2003 Extensions

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ISP Doesn't Support Publisher 2003 Extensions

Jazzwolf

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

My ISP has decided not to support Publisher 2003. Can someone offer a
step-by-step instruction for uploading a web page update under these
circumstances?

Thanks,

DavidF

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

To be specific, are you saying that your ISP does not provide FrontPage
Service Extensions at all? And, are you also saying that they did offer
FPSE, but have chosen to stop?

Assuming that you are saying that you can't use HTML uploading, then you can
FTP, or in the worse case, every webhost provides some form of upload
manager/tool, and you could upload it that way. Reference:
Uploading/Publishing articles:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/a...egory/1921.aspx

If you are using a form on your page, you will have to find an alternative.
The "built-in" Publisher forms are dependent upon FPSE to work. There are
workarounds...

DavidF

"Jazzwolf" <Jazzwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My ISP has decided not to support Publisher 2003. Can someone offer a
> step-by-step instruction for uploading a web page update under these
> circumstances?
>
> Thanks,
>

Jazzwolf

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

David,

Yes, once upon a time they supported the extensions, but they since have
chosen not to because, if I understood them correctly, Microsoft stopped
supporting Linex and Unix systems.

The ISP's techs had no good suggestion for how to get around the problem,
though they did send me a link to a GoWeb solution that I couldn't get to
work (http://www.goweb.com.au/faq/frontpageftp/).

I'll check out your links and see if I can figure it out.

Thanks,

Jazzwolf

"DavidF" wrote:

> To be specific, are you saying that your ISP does not provide FrontPage
> Service Extensions at all? And, are you also saying that they did offer
> FPSE, but have chosen to stop?
>
> Assuming that you are saying that you can't use HTML uploading, then you can
> FTP, or in the worse case, every webhost provides some form of upload
> manager/tool, and you could upload it that way. Reference:
> Uploading/Publishing articles:
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/a...egory/1921.aspx
>
> If you are using a form on your page, you will have to find an alternative.
> The "built-in" Publisher forms are dependent upon FPSE to work. There are
> workarounds...
>
> DavidF
>
> "Jazzwolf" <Jazzwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:19D745A0-93CF-4091-922E-BCF6D1357B9E@microsoft.com...
>
>
>

DavidF

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

Jazzwolf,

Thanks for getting back to me. Can I assume that you webhost is goweb.com?
Part of the reason I asked was that MS is replacing FrontPage with two new
programs, and neither of them use FPSE. This does mean that some webhosts
will not be offering FPSE support in the future.

I was able to get the link to work. Bottom line is that you will need to use
FTP uploading, or the built-in file uploading tool provided by your host.
FTP is usually a superior method, and there are a lot of FTP programs out
there. One suggested on the goweb.com FAG page is FileZilla:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

Or as per the links I gave you, David Bartosik describes FTP uploading:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/80556.aspx
Personally, I prefer publishing my website file (html files) to my hard
drive, and using a separate FTP client to upload them. Or once you create
the ftp site in your Network places you can use Windows Explorer to upload
the html files from your computer to your webhost.

As I said before, the lack of FPSE support by your host won't be an issue
unless you are using a form in your Publisher document. That does require
FPSE.

DavidF

"Jazzwolf" <Jazzwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> David,
>
> Yes, once upon a time they supported the extensions, but they since have
> chosen not to because, if I understood them correctly, Microsoft stopped
> supporting Linex and Unix systems.
>
> The ISP's techs had no good suggestion for how to get around the problem,
> though they did send me a link to a GoWeb solution that I couldn't get to
> work (http://www.goweb.com.au/faq/frontpageftp/).
>
> I'll check out your links and see if I can figure it out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jazzwolf
>
> "DavidF" wrote:
>
>

Jazzwolf

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

David,

No, GoWeb isn't my host. My ISP's tech simply referred to its instructions
re uploading FrontPage since they had no clue themselves how to solve the
problem.

What do you mean by "using a form in your Publisher document"?

After I update my web pages, I save them to my hard disk, then use
Publisher's "Publish to Web" function.

Thanks again.

Jazzwolf

"DavidF" wrote:

> Jazzwolf,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me. Can I assume that you webhost is goweb.com?
> Part of the reason I asked was that MS is replacing FrontPage with two new
> programs, and neither of them use FPSE. This does mean that some webhosts
> will not be offering FPSE support in the future.
>
> I was able to get the link to work. Bottom line is that you will need to use
> FTP uploading, or the built-in file uploading tool provided by your host.
> FTP is usually a superior method, and there are a lot of FTP programs out
> there. One suggested on the goweb.com FAG page is FileZilla:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
>
> Or as per the links I gave you, David Bartosik describes FTP uploading:
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/80556.aspx
> Personally, I prefer publishing my website file (html files) to my hard
> drive, and using a separate FTP client to upload them. Or once you create
> the ftp site in your Network places you can use Windows Explorer to upload
> the html files from your computer to your webhost.
>
> As I said before, the lack of FPSE support by your host won't be an issue
> unless you are using a form in your Publisher document. That does require
> FPSE.
>
> DavidF
>
> "Jazzwolf" <Jazzwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:46BF30BE-69BA-415C-BE24-F2BCD52D4E64@microsoft.com...
>
>
>

DavidF

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

Jazzwolf,

Reference: Publisher web publication forms 101:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/a...1/07/80564.aspx

You are approaching the process correctly. Make changes in your original
Publisher document, Save those changes, then Publish to the Web to produce
your HTML files and folders. If you use the subfolder option, then an
index.htm file and a index_files folder is produced. These are what need to
be uploaded to your webhost. If you Publish to the Web, and direct the files
to your hard drive, you can then use FTP clients such as FileZilla to upload
those files. Or as per David's article, you directly upload them from
Publisher. Several ways of skinning this cat. Just study David's article and
try uploading that way, or use one of the other FTP uploading methods.

DavidF

"Jazzwolf" <Jazzwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9D97CEF-99F6-4A73-879D-99D55B088914@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
> David,
>
> No, GoWeb isn't my host. My ISP's tech simply referred to its instructions
> re uploading FrontPage since they had no clue themselves how to solve the
> problem.
>
> What do you mean by "using a form in your Publisher document"?
>
> After I update my web pages, I save them to my hard disk, then use
> Publisher's "Publish to Web" function.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Jazzwolf
>
>
> "DavidF" wrote:
>

Jazzwolf

2007-01-27, 10:39 pm

Thanks again for the guidance. I'll play around and see if I can't solve it.

Cheers,

Jazzwolf

"DavidF" wrote:

> Jazzwolf,
>
> Reference: Publisher web publication forms 101:
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/a...1/07/80564.aspx
>
> You are approaching the process correctly. Make changes in your original
> Publisher document, Save those changes, then Publish to the Web to produce
> your HTML files and folders. If you use the subfolder option, then an
> index.htm file and a index_files folder is produced. These are what need to
> be uploaded to your webhost. If you Publish to the Web, and direct the files
> to your hard drive, you can then use FTP clients such as FileZilla to upload
> those files. Or as per David's article, you directly upload them from
> Publisher. Several ways of skinning this cat. Just study David's article and
> try uploading that way, or use one of the other FTP uploading methods.
>
> DavidF
>
> "Jazzwolf" <Jazzwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A9D97CEF-99F6-4A73-879D-99D55B088914@microsoft.com...
>
>
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