Finally, we have got published server and this is important because this is the spot that you will go to when you want to upload your pages to your web server. We will have a list in later on using the published server and all of its options but for right now, I just want to show you a little bit, just a get a little taste of how this works.
I am going to have you create a published server. First thing we are going to do is go up to the tool bar and click on this button right here called open site settings dialog. One click and we get the site settings and let me move this into vie, bring it over a bit and we should be on the published server option but if you are not click on published server right here to get to this view.
Here we have the standard Adobe UI for new or delete. So, we are going to create a new server setting. What this is going to do is it is going to tell Go Live aware of the server is that we want to publish to. Let us go ahead and click and we get just sort of blank options here.
So, we will name this total training that is just a nickname so that when you go to change from one server setting to another you will know which one it is and under protocol we are going to choose file. This is interesting because you do not have to use an FTP or an HTTP server, you can publish to a directory on your hard drive or on your network and to illustrate how this works today, we are just going to use file.
Now, we need to choose the directory that we want to publish to and you do that by clicking this little browse button here on the right hand side. So click and I would like you to go to your desktop and find the project files then go to lesson four and you will see a folder in there waiting called publish.
So, we are going to select that and you will notice there are actually some documents in this folder already so I put them on purpose because I want you to see how this works. We are going to click choose and we go back to the main screen and say okay.
At this point, I need to explain to you that the published server tab is going to show you in this space the files that are on the publish server whether that be on a web server remotely, whether that be on your hard drive or on one of your network servers. In this case, we have created a publish server setting that is pointing to a folder on our hard drive so we want to connect to it and you do that by going up here to the tool bar and clicking on this connect to publish server button.
So, click and it is so fast to connect it with that because we are doing this locally on our own computer and you can see these are the files that are already in here. Now, if we are really go into publish at this point, we could choose this other buttons up here which would upload or download files for us but we are not going to do that in this lesson. I just want you to show you what the tab was for.
Finally, I want to point out to you that a lot of the heavy lifting is done here in the site Window so if you choose to do something like rename a file like I am going to change this file from main head.CSS to main heads.CSS. What would happen, I got a dialog box that says,”Oh, if you do that you are going to have a lot of broken links unless you let me fix all this files for you.” Well, how nice of Go Live, do not you think that is great? I do so I say, okay.
I will click the okay button and it has updated all the links in all of the pages but should I change my mind I am not stuck. I can choose edit, undo and not only will it undo the rename but it has automatically fix all of the links that it changed the first time around.
So, the Go Live site Window is really your friend. You need to love this site Window. Love this site Window, use it, and depend on it. It will not let you down.
