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Before uploading the entire site, you must specify the destination server. Also, you can find and correct errors in your site with the Site Check function.

This section contains the following topics:


Registering the destination server

To register such server information as the destination server name, user ID, password, and destination folder, all of which are necessary for uploading:

Note Note You must create a site before doing this task. [Ref.]"Creating a site"


  1. Select Site Wizard from the Site menu to start the site wizard, which is the same as the one you used to create the site.

  2. Select Change the Existing Site Settings, and select a site name.

    wizard 1

  3. Click the Next button. The Set Site Items dialog box appears, displaying the items you have already specified.

  4. Click the Next button. The Setup Destination Server dialog box appears, in which the same name as the site is automatically entered in the Server Profile Name box:

    wizard 2

    Vocabulary Vocabulary server profile

    A set of such server information as the destination server name, user ID, password, and destination folder. Its default name is the corresponding site name, but you can change it.

  5. Enter the address of your provider's server in the Destination Server Name box.

  6. Enter your user ID in the User ID box, your password in the Password box, and the server's folder name in which you upload your files in the Destination Folder box. (The values in the following figure are examples.)

    wizard 3

    Note Note Enter the values in these boxes that your provider instructs. For example, if you are instructed to "place data in the public_html folder," enter "public_html" in the Destination Folder box. Do not place a slash "/" at the beginning. If you are instructed to "place data in the /home/username folder," place a slash "/" at the beginning and enter it as "/home/username." Contact your provider on anything that is unclear.

    Tip Tip If you are uploading files from a LAN-connected personal computer through a firewall, click the Detail Settings button and set the firewall. Only the "SITE hostname" type firewall is available. If you do not know your firewall format, contact your system administrator.

  7. Click the Next button to display the final dialog box.

    wizard 4

  8. Click the Finish button to complete the settings.

Tip Tip If you want to cancel a server registration, select Destination Server Setup from the Site menu, select a profile name from the Registered Server list, click the Delete Server button, and click the OK button.



Correcting errors

The Site Check function enables you to find the following errors in the entire site:

Note Note Before doing this task, save all the Web pages you are currently editing.


  1. Select Site Check from the Site menu to display the Site Check dialog box.

  2. Select a site name from the Site to Check list box. (If you open a site, you can select only that site. If you do not open a site, you can select any one from all the registered sites.)

  3. You can select either the Alternate Text check box or the Spelling check box, or you can select both of them.

    Site Check dialog box

  4. Click the Start button to start searching for errors. When the search is complete, the Find Result dialog box is displayed. The file names of the Web pages with errors and the types of errors are displayed.

    Search Results dialog box

  5. Select a file name, and click the Open File button to open the corresponding Web page.

  6. Correct the errors as follows:


    (For details, click the Help button on the URL Editor or the Spelling dialog box.


Registering a file as the one to be uploaded

Homepage Builder categorizes files in the site folder as either "unused files" or "files to be transferred." Remember that if you upload the entire site, only the "files to be transferred" are uploaded. This section explains how to change an "unused file" into a "file to be transferred."

Note Note Before doing this task, place the target files into the site folder.


  1. Open a site. [Ref.]"Opening a site and a Web page"

  2. Click the File tab, and click Unused Files to display the list of files that Homepage Builder regards as unused files, in the lower half of the File pane.

    List of unused files

  3. Click the target file using the right mouse button, and select Add to transferred list from the pop-up menu.

    Pop-up menu

  4. To check that the file has been moved, click Files to Be Transferred in the upper half of the File pane.

    List of files to be transferred

Tip Tip If you find an unnecessary file among the Unused Files list, delete it by clicking the file name using the right mouse button, and selecting Delete from the pop-up menu.