why is FrontPage so useless?

[efffemm]

My wife asked me to install FrontPage 2000 on her PC, as she had
learnt a bit about it one day during a Microsoft Office course.
She then made her webpage, and wanted to upload it.

So when it comes to publish the web, I entered for her
ftp://members.isp.com/~username

Now what it did was create a directory "~username" on the
webserver, under the account "username". So when you try to
open URL
http://members.isp.com/~username
you see the default webpage of the ISP saying this user has
not moved in yet or words to that effect.
Why is FrontPage so stupid?

P.S. isp.com is only an example, that is not really the server.

 

[L Covey]

My wife asked me to install FrontPage 2000 on her PC, as she had
learnt a bit about it one day during a Microsoft Office course.
She then made her webpage, and wanted to upload it.

So when it comes to publish the web, I entered for her
ftp://members.isp.com/~username

Now what it did was create a directory "~username" on the
webserver, under the account "username". So when you try to
open URL
http://members.isp.com/~username
you see the default webpage of the ISP saying this user has
not moved in yet or words to that effect.
Why is FrontPage so stupid?

P.S. isp.com is only an example, that is not really the server.

Could the server folks be of help?

I used FrontPage2003 the most recent and the last version they will
have. I know for certain that the server has to "support FrontPage
extensions". So, anyone creating a site in FPage needs to contact the
server people to see if it does support FP extensions.

LC

 

[Caro]

don't think you need the tilde.........that's the issue, IMO. the ~ in
the username is not necessary. Try it again, w/o it.

C

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