Copy your Internet web site back to your local computer

Scenario:

You have a web site that is published to an Internet Web Hosting Server, and now you would like to transfer a copy of it back to your computer.

Reasons:

There are a variety of reasons that you might need to do this, here are a few of the most common ones:

1. Perhaps you or your web designer have made changes to your Internet Web Site that are more current than the copy on your computer.
    
2. You made changes to your web site on your computer and now you've changed your mind.  Help!  You want everything back the way it was.  You had a back-up right?  If not, shame on you.  Never totally rely on the remote server copy of your Internet site as your only back up.
    
3. Your hard drive crashed and you need to restore a copy of your site to your computer.  (Again, you make regular backups of your hard drive, right?)
    
4. You have purchased a new computer and you want an easy way to load a copy to your new machine.
    
5. You want a copies on both your home and work computers.

FOLLOW THESE EASY STEPS...

OPEN YOUR LIVE WEB SITE ON THE INTERNET

1. Connect to the Internet
2. Launch your Microsoft FrontPage software
3. Click on FILE -> OPEN WEB
4. In the FOLDER NAME BOX type your complete Internet web address in this format:
   
   http://www.yoursite.com
    
5. Click the OPEN button
6. Enter your username and password when prompted and click OK
    
7. You have now opened your "live" production web site that resides on your Internet web hosting account

Publish your Internet site back to your local computer

1. With your live Internet site open, click FILE ->PUBLISH WEB
2. In the "Specify the location" box type the location of the copy of your web on your computer.
   
   Only you know where your web files reside on your computer. If you are not sure, try clicking on the BROWSE button to locate your copy of your site on your computer
   
   HINT: It's usually something like:
   
   Your hard drive: c:\my webs\new web
   A network drive: \\myserver\myweb
    
3. Next click the PUBLISH button
4. If prompted to convert the folder on your computer to a web, you can click YES
5. Once your site has been successfully copied to your computer you will get a confirmation box that says "Web Site published successfully!" Click DONE