Tutorial: Creating your website with Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Publisher allows you to create an entire website in just a few hours. They provide templates that help your sites look attractive and functional.

To start just open Publisher and select 'File > New' for a new project. Then choose 'Websites and E-mail' in the side bar and that will bring up the 'Easy Web Site Builder'.

Now select the website template you prefer and Publisher will guide you through adding pages and customizing each webpage of your website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorial: Uploading your new Microsoft Publisher website

Step 1. Ensure that you have your username and password that was given to you in your welcome email. This is the same username/password used to login to your site's control panel at http://www.yoursite.com:2082 that is hosted by us, Pangea Webhosting.

 

Step 2. Choose 'File > Publish to the Web' in the Publisher menu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3. If you see the 'Web Hosting Service' warning just click 'OK'. Your website is hosted with us (and our service provides Microsoft Frontpage Extensions" so you will have no problem uploading your publisher website.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4. Now you will see a 'Save dialog' that will allow you to save your current webpage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5. A warning dialog may appear that informs you a filtered HTML file was created for your webpage. This is the actual HTML file that gets uploaded to our servers. Just click 'OK' to proceed.

 

 

Step 6. Publisher has saved the webpage to your the folder you specified on your computer's hard-drive. We must now upload it to our servers so it is viewable when someone goes to http://www.yoursite.com

 

Step 7. Open the folder on your computer that has all your publisher files. You will upload this entire folder to your website's account via FTP.

FTP is like 'My Computer' for your website. It will allow you to login to your webspace and view the files on your webserver.

Click here to proceed to the tutorial on uploading your files to our server.