Opening an HTML Page to Edit

To open an existing webpage such as the history_include.html file located in your new website you would open your web authoring program with the following commands.

1. File --> Open

2. Click 'Location' and enter http://(yoursite.com)/history_include.html

3. Click OK and the page content will now appear in your editor

4. Edit the page as needed and when ready, follow the steps below to publish your changes or new pages to your website.

Note- You will see yellow diamond objects with a blue question mark. These are formatting placeholder notations and should just be ignored. The code to center text, bold text, etc. is represented by one of these symbols. Leave the existing ones alone until you are comfortable editing the pages.

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Saving Your Work

 

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1.    To publish your Web Pages, click on the "File" menu and select "Save As..."

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2.    You will be prompted to give your Web Page a title and a location to publish your files to.  The title is your choice and the format for location is: ftp://yoursite.com/mainwebsite_html/somepage.html
example: ftp://bpwonline.com/mainwebsite_html/gettingstarted.html

You must have first made sure to install the Microsoft Publishing Wizard or you will receive a web post error. All web files go into your mainwebsite_html directory when using ftp to move files from your PC to your website.

When you have entered the Title and Location, Press OK

*NOTE* You should only be updating _include.html pages unless you have strong html editing skills.

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3.    The Web Publishing Wizard will pop up which helps you publish your files to the web, click Next.
OR  A popup box will appear on your screen asking for your username and password. Your username format will be username#yoursite.com  example bpwonline#bpwonline.com and then your site password, click Next.

4.   That's it! You should be able to immediately view the page on the web at http://yoursite.com/somepage.html
Hit refresh on your web browser if you are unable to immediately see the changes. If you don't see your new page, double check all steps and confirm your folder location entered started with ftp:// and that you included the /mainwebsite_html/ part of the connection string for the folder location path.