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348 Website Publishing

9. Click OK. Web Designer Premium displays a dialog confirming the publish details
that it is about to use for publishing. Click Publish.

Publish details dialog
Transferring data

1. After you have clicked Publish, Web Designer Premium displays a small window
that shows the progress of data transmission and tells you when the publish is
complete. If you entered your website's URL with the FTP details then you can go
straight to it from this location.
2. Alternatively, as soon as the transfer is finished, you can open a browser window
and navigate to the URL of your published website.

Note: If you entered a sub-folder in the Publish tab of the Web Properties dialog, your
website is saved there.
Important: If you have not set any specific page names in the Page & Layer Gallery, then
the name you exported to last will be used as the basis for all the pages in your website.
E.g., if you open a template website, and export this as 'test' to your file system, and now
publish this, it will be published as test.htm to your web server, and all additional pages
will be test_2.htm, test_3.htm etc.

index.htm is the usual name for the first page of a website.

Note: Many web servers use case-sensitive filenames. So, for example, the web
address xara.com/products.htm is not the same thing as xara.com/Products.htm. To
reduce confusion and the likelihood of errors Web Designer Premium enforces that all
page names are all lower-case and contain only allowable characters. This means that
spaces are not allowed in page names. We suggest using an underscore as an
alternative separator.

Secure FTP Protocols
Apart from standard FTP (file transfer protocol) Web Designer Premium also supports
the more secure FTPS and SFTP protocols. Some web hosting require you to upload
your site using one of these instead of insecure FTP.