Previewing and Publishing

Publishing your website

Once your done creating your basic website, you will want to publish it online. There are multiple ways you can do this. If you are using a public Google Drive folder to host your website, you just need to copy your files to that folder.

If you are using a regular web host, they often allow uploads and downloads eith FTP, the File Transfer Protocol. Expression web has built-in tools for publishing with FTP. Click on the “site view” tab>”publishing”. The first time you use it, you will need to “add a publishing destination”. You can name it whatever you want, but will need the FTP location, username and password that came with your web host. You can also select a specific “directory” (or folder) to automatically open when connected. Once you’ve successfully added the FTP information, you should be able to connect to your web host at any point by clicking on “connect to current publishing destination”. You can then drag and drop the files you want to publish to the folders you want to publish them to, or you can select them and click on the right arrow. You can also publish files quickly from the “Site” menu, but make sure you’re sending them to the folder you want. Once you’ve published your site, it will be available to anyone in the world with internet access. You have created a small part of the web. Congratulations