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498 Web Graphics and Websites

7. Click the Explore web space button to browse, view and delete files you have
uploaded to your FTP server (Optional). You can also set a Sub-folder path which
will automatically appear in the the Sub-folder (optional) field.
8. When you are finished click OK to take you back to the Publish tab of the Web
Properties dialog.
9. Click OK. Designer Pro 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, Designer Pro 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 Designer Pro 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.