FrontPage works offline, performing all of its functions — just like a word processing program or other desktop software — on your PC. While you're using FrontPage to build your pages, you're creating and editing files on your own computer. Naturally your customers and friends can't access files on your computer, so when you're happy with your work, you'll want to publish your site so that people can find your pages on the Web.

When you're ready to show your creations to the world, you'll copy your page files from the web site folder on your computer to your Yahoo! Web Hosting or Merchant Solutions account. This transfer is called publishing. When you publish your web pages, you make them available on the World Wide Web.

Please be sure to activate FrontPage publishing in your account before you try to publish your FrontPage site. Learn how.

Important note: We recommend that you do not use FrontPage's FTP component to publish your site. Learn more.