Microsoft might like you to believe that their software makes it easy to publish a web page, but they didn’t take into account the level of stupidity their customers demonstrate.
I just had a call from a customer who’d uploaded their website to our IIS server and was still seeing our default page (which says basically ‘This page has not been created yet’ and gives links to our online help). I had a quick look for myself:
ftp> ls
200 PORT Command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
drw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Mar 17 15:17 .
drw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Mar 17 15:17 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 1741 Apr 16 2004 Default.asp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 34816 Mar 17 15:17 Home Page.ppt
226-Maximum disk quota limited to 50000 kBytes
Used disk quota 34 kBytes, available 49966 kBytes
226 Transfer complete.
No sir, saving a PowerPoint file with the name ‘Home Page’ does not magically turn it into a website. So sorry.
