Building Web Sites All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 10. Publishing the Web Site

In This Chapter

• Preparing to launch the site

• Uploading the site

• What to do after the launch

Designing Web sites is a creative process that can be lots of fun. But fun doesn't put bread on the table or a Web site on your hard drive, and it isn't going to pay the bills either. After you build it, you've got to upload it before visitors swarm your client's site. But before that blessed event can happen, you've got to make sure you've got your ducks in a row. In other words, make sure it ain't broke, and if it is broke, fix it. There's nothing worse than uploading a site with bugs and ending up with egg all over your face. You guessed it, the yolk's on you. In this chapter, we show you how to exterminate any bugs that might be lurking in your code, how to upload the site to the hosting server, and what to do after the launch.

Look Before You Leap: What to Do before Launch

Your client is all over you like white‐on‐rice to make the site live, but if you do so before making sure everything is up to snuff, you do yourself and your client a disservice. First and foremost, you damage your reputation, both with the client and potential clients, if you put a site out there that contains code errors, broken links, and so on. In the upcoming sections, we show you a few things you need to consider before uploading the site to the client's server.

Develop a checklist

If you have a checklist you can refer to before you launch the site, you can be sure you won't forget ...