Site Manager User Guide

Step 5: Deliver your Site up to the Web

When you have finished designing your website and have added your text, graphics, and banners, it is time to publish it to the World Wide Web. As we said earlier, you will need a hosting service in order to be able to publish your site. Your Site Manager offers you three options once you have reached this stage.

  1. You can download your new site directly into your own computer. To do this, use Delivery>>>Direct Download on your menu bar. This is the option you may choose if you want to save your website to your hard drive or another disk drive until you are ready to upload it to the web. Here, you are also given the choice to use a zip-compressed application to speed up your download time and save some disk space.

  2. You can e-mail your site to the email address of your choice. This is done by clicking on the Delivery>>>By E-mail function, choosing your site's destination (follow the instructions in the dialog box), and pressing the Send the Site button.

  3. In most cases, you will want to immediately publish your webpages onto the Internet. To do this, go to the Delivery>>>Publish To Host function and fill in the FTP Parameters. If you do not know the exact parameters to enter, call or email your hosting service and they will help you. After these parameters are entered, press the Update button and, in 5 to 10 minutes (or less), your entire site will be on the web!
Important Note: You can come back to your Site manager and edit your site as many times as you like and republish it. We do not recommend that you use your own HTML Editor (or your host's editor system), because any changes that you make with your own Editor will not be reflected on your website when you publish from your Site Manager at a later date. In other words, unless you are an experienced webmaster and can keep track of all of the small changes that you make with your own HTML Editor, we suggest that you always use your Site Manager for editing your website. That way, you will not lose any changes you might have made on your own.