Build a Small Business Website: Publish and Test Your Website

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Build a Small Business Website Publish and Test Your Website From Jennifer Kyrnin, your Guide to Web Design / HTML Once you're done building your website on your local hard drive, you need to get it from there to your Web hosting provider. This is called publishing, and you generally use an FTP (file transfer protocol) client to do it. But once your website is up, your work isn't done. You need to test it. Hopefully, you've been checking your work all along in a Web browser on your hard drive, but once it's up on your Web host, you may find different problems. Testing is a critical piece of Web development. Don't omit it from your site, even if you're not the one building it. You should be the one testing it. Publish Your Website Best FTP Clients for Windows My personal favorite Windows FTP clients. You'll need one to upload your website. Most are low-cost, many are free. Best FTP Clients for Macintosh My personal favorite Macintosh FTP clients. You'll need one to upload your website. Most are low-cost, many are free. Reviews: FTP Clients Reviews of specific FTP clients. How to Upload Your Website These are the steps you take to upload your Web pages to your Web hosting provider. How to Set up Dreamweaver to Transfer Files You can even use some Web editors to transfer your files to your Web host. This tutorial explains how to use Dreamweaver for FTP. Testing Your Web Pages How to Preview Your Web Pages Previewing your Web pages is the first step to testing. Learn how to look at your Web pages before they are live, so that you can fix problems before anyone sees them. Solving Problems in Web Design By following the steps in this article you'll be able to narrow down what is causing a specific problem and thus fix it. Graded Browser Support Your website won't look perfect on every browser out there - that's just impossible. Here's a suggestion for how to choose the browsers to support and why. How to Use BrowserCam to Review Your Web Site Once your site is on the Web host, you can use BrowserCam to view your site in many different browsers on many different operating systems. Next: Promote your website This email is written by: Jennifer Kyrnin Web Design / HTML Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Build a Small Business Website' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement