How to Upload a Website from Publisher to a New Domain

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Publisher 2003 to your webserver! The video above is an example of using one of the options below called FTP using a simple Microsoft Office product called Microsoft Publisher 2003. You can achieve similar effects in other Office products.

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Difficulty: Moderate

Tips & Warnings:

If you are transferring your site's domain name, you should make sure you own the name, if you do contact your new host for advice on getting the proper DNS entries setup.
You will want to keep the old host active until you are sure the new host works properly.
Name transfers can take some time.
Check your error logs for errors on downloads or uploads
If you simply want to share documents over the web many isp offer free webspace.
If you save files to your webspace you can link to them in their native formats, and many browsers still know how to open them. For example Word documents can be opened by anyone that has the .doc or .docx format registered on their computer.
Look to my future articles for more detailed and a guided walk through of setting up a basic website.
Read reviews on new hosts before transferring.
If the deal sounds to good to be true it probably is
Avoid sharing hosts if you have a huge site.

Step1

Okay you want a website moved or you already have some documents on your computer that you want on another website. If you don't already have html (basically documents in a particular format) files you will first need to create them. If you are looking for something very basic and like using Microsoft Office type products you may want to try Microsoft Office Live Basic:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/default.aspx (copy and paste address to your browser) instead of this tutorial.

If you are more advanced user and are familiar with the FTP concept continue reading....

Step2

From Publish go to File

Step3

Go to Publish to the Web

Step4

Click the Save in drop down menu and choose Add/Modify FTP location

Step5

Type in the name of your server i.e. www.yoursite.com

Step6

Click User and type in your username.

Step7

Type in your password

Step8

Click Add

Step9

Click Ok

Step10

From the drop down box click your newly added site, if not already selected.

Step11

Pick a place on your webserver to save your file.

Step12

Click ok

Step13

Your page should now be live!

Step14

//Misc Info - Feel Free to Ignore Below

If you want to retrieve files that you have already created and placed on another web server you will first need to connect to that server and retrieve them. If you know how to use a FTP (basically a file manager for the web) program you will want to connect to your host using your login and password (the company you use should have given you this information along with a numeric ip address to use as an address to connect to). Download all the files you would like to transfer. Typically files stored on a host can sit in many folders, the one's normally of interest to people are in a folder called www, or public. If this is not the location of your files contact your host provider. If you do not know how to use an FTP program (like FileZilla or Webdrive) you will have to read an ehow or wait until I write a future article on that area. Webdrive makes FTP'ing as simple as Windows Explorer is in transferring files.

FTP information for other types of users...

Once you connect to your site using Webdrive (or any ftp program - your web browser can even be a ftp program) backup all your data to your computer or somewhere you can find it later. (USB drive is another good place.)

Step15

Find a new host using a local search engine and look at community forums where they review various hosts. Read my warnings about choosing a host.

Step16

Connect to your newly acquired host and then copy your files from your PC to your new host. (Contact your host's support number for ftp login information.) If files don't work on your new host contact them and ask them to set your web root folder's files to default permissions for web content.

Step17

Read the tips below if you are transferring a domain name as well.

Photo/Video Credit

I created this video quickly as an example of how to use an office app to upload. This video is an example of an FTP option mentioned below.

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RLRhodes said

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on 7/26/2008 Excellent!!!! A big Thank you, and 5 stars.

revisitingnixon said

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on 6/27/2007 Congrats on having this article be picked as the winner for the "Top Written Requested How to Article!" Check out the forums and see which other winners we have this week. Check it out at:

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trncchc said

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on 6/22/2007 Make sure to set a password from your domain holder. Example, if you purchase a domain from YAHOO!, under your business account settings, set a user name and password ie use the same on you use to long onto YAHOO! Then when you are doing the .ftp settings and you add, it will ask you for your login and password, and voila!

nanomatrix said

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on 6/18/2007 Sure I will update this ehow right now, check back in like 15 minutes.

WeeSandy said

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on 6/18/2007 ??? What do all the abbreviations mean? Would you mind adding on to this in words that assume someone doesn't know any computer talk or abbreviations?

I'm just looking for instructions on how to get my Publisher website onto the web..

Thanks!

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