Publisher provides some excellent tools for creating your own Web site, even if the site has only one page. You create the Web site as a Publisher publication, but you publish it to the Web as HTML and supporting files. Although you won’t be able to edit the Web site in Publisher once you’ve published it to the Web, you can edit the Publisher publication, make changes to the pages, and then publish the edited files to the Web again.
Start Publisher, or, if it’s already running, choose New from the File menu to open the Microsoft Publisher window, and select Web Sites as the publication type. Select a Web-site design and any other options you want. Click Create.
In the Easy Web Site Builder dialog box that appears, select the check boxes for the items you want to add to the Web site, and click OK.
Click Page Options if you want to change the page layout, the name of the page, the background, or the background sound.
Use the tools on the Web Tools toolbar to customize your Web page. If your site has more than one page, switch to the other pages and customize them.
Replace the placeholder text and graphics on each page with your own content.
Click the Save button on the Standard toolbar to save the publication as a Publisher file so that it will be available for any later modifications.
Click the Web Page Preview button on the Web Tools toolbar to preview the site in your Web browser.
Return to your publication, make any changes you want, and save the publication again.
- Choose Publish To The Web from the File menu. If a dialog box appears and tells you that you need a Web-hosting service, click OK to continue if you already have a Web service. Otherwise, click the link to find a host on line, or press the Esc key to cancel the publishing until you’ve signed up for a Web-hosting service.
- In the Publish To The Web dialog box, do either of the following:
If your Web host supports FTP publishing directly from Publisher, type the location of the site in the form ftp:\websitename.com (where websitename.com is the address of your Web site), and click Save. Log on to your site when requested, and then, if the Publish To The Web dialog box appears again with a proposed file name, click Save without changing any settings.
If your Web host doesn’t support direct publishing, if you can’t connect to the host, or if you want to publish to a different location, locate the folder for the files, and click Save.
- If the Microsoft Office Publisher dialog box appears telling you that a filtered HTML version has been created, read the notice, and click OK.
- If your Web host doesn’t support publishing directly to the Web, transfer the files from the folder in which you saved them to your Web site, using the directions your Web host has provided.
- Go to your Web site, and make sure that everything is working properly.
