If you are using Microsoft Office Live Small Business to create and manage your web pages, please read this tutorial.

Step 1:

Use Microsoft Office Live Small Business to create your webpage including files that need protection.

Step 2:

View the webpage with Internet Explorer, then click Internet Explorer menu "View->Source". The source code of the web page will be open in Notepad.

Click Notepad menu "File -> Save As", save it as an HTML file with the ".html" extension.

Step 3:

Now you can use HTML Password Lock to password protect this HTML file.

Launch HTML Password Lock.

In Step 1, click on the "Add file" button, browse to the folder where the HTML file(s) have been saved locally on your computer, select the HTML file(s), add the file(s) to the file list.

In Step 2, define username and password. If this is the first time you use the software, you can click on the "Next" button to skip Steps 3 and 4, keeping the default options.

In the Last Step, click on the "Lock" button. The locked file will be listed on the file list.

Select the file on the file list, double-click it or click on the "Test" button, open it with your web browser and test the password protection. If you open the file with Internet Explorer, click on the yellow alert bar on top of the web page, select "Allow Blocked Content" in the popup window, and click on the "Yes" button.

For a detailed description of this step, please refer to Quick Start.

Step 4:

Now that the HTML file(s) have been locked, you can upload them to your web server in the control panel of Microsoft Office Live Small Business.

. Login to your control panel, and click "Web Site" in the left navigation bar.

. Click "Document Gallery" in the left navigation bar.

. In the "Documents" panel, click on the "Upload" button, then in the popup "Document Uploader" window, select the locked HTML file and upload.

. After uploading, the file will be listed on the "Documents" panel. You may click on the filename and test it's password protection.

After a HTML file is protected, you cannot edit the protected content with Microsoft Office Live Small Business anymore, so the best solution is to save the locked HTML file with a different filename, thus avoiding the needing to overwrite the existing HTML file on your web server.

. You can now add a "Member Area" or "Member Link" on your web page, and link it to the locked file. After the visitor clicks the "Member Area", he will be redirected to the locked web page.