Publishing Website

There is no point in going to all the trouble of building an attractive, informative, creative Web site if no one is going to look at it. The culmination of all your work is the moment when you make your Web site available to the outside world by publishing it either to an intranet or to the Internet. Publishing a Web site for the first time is also known as launching the site.

In Web site terms, publishing means copying all your Web site files to a Web server. After the site is published, it is considered "live," that is, the intended private group of people (in the case of an intranet) or the general public (in the case of the Internet) can view the site in their Web browsers.

You can publish a Web site in three ways:

■           Finding a suitable host for your web site

■           000WEBHOST

■           RUANGWEB

■           NIMHOST

■           THEWIRE

■           TOPHOST

■           WEBHOSTDIR

■           You can use Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to publish to a Web server that
has Windows SharePoint Services or FrontPage Server Extensions installed.

■           You can use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to publish to a Web server that does
not have Windows SharePoint Services or FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
To use FTP, you need to know the name of the FTP server that will receive your
files, and have a valid user name and password.

■           You can copy your Web site to a folder on your own computer. With a
FrontPage-based Web site, it is advisable to publish the Web folder rather
than simply copying the files, to ensure that the structure and integrity of
the site is maintained.