[kiwibird]

I have been designing a website for my brother and I want to email it to him so he can view it. I have designed the webpage in MS Frontpage. My brother does not have Frontpage but I hoped somehow I could save the site as an HTML document or similar that he could open in his browser to view. Can this be done? Thank you.

[Sequal7]

Definately it can be done, if you want him to be able to view the website, simply email the entire site to him in its folder (zipped or otherwise). All the pages are htm files and will work just as if it was uploaded to a server.

If you zip it, then tell him to extract it in its folders (example root, images,faq etc)
When he opens the extracted directory (your website name) then clicks for example the index.html page in it, it will open in Internet Explorer or whatever browser he uses. He can then click the links etc and pretty much view the entire site. If he uses XP and you have any javascript then he will also have to agree to the activex componants to be able to use the buttons. The only pages he wont be able to view are scripts (PHP, ASP, CF etc)

[kiwibird]

Thank you for your reply. I right clicked the folder and selected "send to mail recipient" but nothing happens. Is there a setting that needs to be changed for this to work? Thankyou

[Sequal7]

Hello

You cant send a website that way, all it will send is a shortcut. You can send an individual file that way only. (one web page, document, image, song etc)

Heres what to do;
First, zip the folder containing your website and images.
*example you created a website in your "My Documents" folder and named it website1 you would zip the contents of website1 folder.
To zip it you right click the folder (website1), then choose send to compressed zipped folder from the menu. You will now see a new folder called website1.zip with a zipper running up it indicating a zipped file.

Now, open your mail client (example outlook express), create a new email to your brother, and attach the file you zipped by choosing Insert > File attachment browse to your zipped website, then click attach. Send your email and the zipped folder will go with it.

On your borthers end he needs to dowbleclick the zipped file, then extract it and then he can view the website as you designed it, even make changes and send it back to you by duplicating what you did.
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[kiwibird]

Thank you that worked perfectly.

[Sequal7]

Your welcome, glad I could help.