Frontpage.

[pompey]

When you set up on frontpage and everything is ok when u preview it, is there any way u can choose your own address for ur website you desgined on frontpage. It usually comes up as a folder name when i preview it on the net, but always it has a rubbish url addy. Is there any way i can choose my own address for my website on frontpage? Oh yer, one more thing cos i only use frontpage at college, is there anyway or any sites that u recommend downloading frontpage for free and where will it go on my pc once downloaded? Thanks , any  answers would be appreciated.

[pagey3]

I have only used dream weaver not front page but think its same principal - when you preview your page in a browser its an internal file name - to have a proper URL you have to pay for a name (try www.simply.com mine cost about �6 for 2 years) and server space and then upload it

[pompey]

thanks

[tomd]

Frontpage is not free software, you'd need to pay for it. Have a talk with your college about getting an educational version, they'll be able to order you it cheap. There are probably other free HTML wysiwyg editors, or you could learn html and do it from scratch in Notepad or EditPad.

The "Preview" tab in frontpage doesn't make a page available for anyone to view over the internet, it makes a temporary version in your temporary internet files for you to preview before authoring the page to a web server. You can hire web space from many different web hosts, or use something free lile GeoCities or Virgin Freespace (thought would need ftp browser for easy use of Virgin)

You can then buy a domain name (eg pompey.co.uk or .com) from somewhere and point it to redirect to your web page, or you might be able to buy hosting and domain cheaply as a package.

[pompey]

thanks for a great answer tomd