Frontpage 2000 or WS FTP?

There are two primary methods for uploading files to your web.  If you have FrontPage2000 extensions installed to your account (installed free), you must use FrontPage97, FrontPage98, or FrontPage2000 for uploading all files, with the sole exception of scripts uploaded to your CGI directory, for which you use FTP.
All non-FrontPage users must use FTP or FTP-enabled programs to upload files.  There are many good web authoring tools which upload using FTP, such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and Allaire's HomeSite.  There are also good stand-alone FTP programs which allow you to upload files generated by desktop editing tools.
UniWeb parking plans cannot be uploaded by the customer, as they are just parked domains.  However, if you have a parking plan and want Open Veld to configure you a simple web page with up to 100 KB of graphics and text, on our servers, we will do so for a small charge.

What is Microsoft FrontPage?
FrontPage is both a WYSIWYG authoring program, a file management system, and an upload device.  By WYSIWYG, we mean that FrontPage will more-or-less show you what your web pages will look like, as you write them ("what you see is what you get").  In general, WYSIWYG authoring tools are notorious for writing invalid code.  FrontPage sometimes assumes that the client doesn't know what she wants, and rewrites the code to fit Microsoft's view of what the client must want.  But WYSIWYG tools can make life easier for a new webmaster.  FrontPage gives you an easy visual view of your folders, and allows for drag-and-drop file moves.  A kinder, gentler WYSIWYG authoring program which we recommend is Macromedia's Dreamweaver available as a free trial version from http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/  It uses FTP for uploading files, so you may not use it on a site with FrontPage extensions, but it has a steeper learning curve and fewer "built-ins" than FrontPage.  Web authoring is changing rapidly, and the division between word processing, spreadsheets, database programming, and web design has blurred such that there are integrated suites that do all functions in a more-or-less harmonious way.  Be cautious, however, of massive suite integration because for some tasks feature-poor tools costing $30-$80 are more reliable and work with less fuss.

What is FTP?
(See also Configuring WS_FTP).  FTP, or file transfer protocol, is just that, a means for uploading files including HTML web pages and images to your web site.  Programs that can upload to your site by FTP are inexpensive (less than $40) and have shareware versions.  One of the most popular FTP programs is WS_FTP Pro 6.0 available from http://ipswitch.com  It runs on Windows 95/98/NT.  The shareware version runs for 30 days.  The older version WS-WS_FTP LE 5.06 is free to certain academic, U.S. government and noncommercial home users as defined in the WS_FTP Limited Edition End User License Agreement.  It runs on Windows 3.1/95/NT.  Even if you use a high-end authoring tool such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver for most of your file management, there are situations when it is nice to have a stand-alone FTP program.