Publishing websites overview

Microsoft Expression Web supports several different publishing scenarios. You can work on your own computer and then publish your changes to a remote production web server; you can work on a remote staging web server and publish your changes to a remote production server; or you can work directly on a remote production web server. In each scenario, you can choose what protocol you want to use to move files between computers.

To work on a local computer and publish to a remote production server

  • Open the site on your computer directly and set your "remote" website to be the production server site.

To work on a remote staging server and publish to a remote production server

  • Open the remote staging server site directly and set your "remote" website to be the production server site.

To work directly on a remote production server

  • Open the remote website directly.

See also

Concepts

Create a website

Remote website view

Publish files

Optimize the source code of a website