Weebly > Get Going > Step 5 - Publish Website
If you want to get a glimpse of your newly create master piece before you put real content in it, that is easy to do...
In the upper right hand corner of the editor is a blue button that says "Publish". Click that...
In fact, all you are doing is asking weebly to take a copy of your files that reside in some private folder that is not visible from the internet and you are asking weebly to place a copy of those files into a public folder that is associated with that subdomain name you specified earlier. It is just a copy and paste action happening behind the scenes (actually it is a synch, so older files or renamed files are removed, but don't worry about those details).
Click on the URL presented in the "Website Published" message and you should see your new website, live and online!!
So -- to pound it home -- each time you "publish", all you are really doing is copying files from a private folder to the public folder associated with your website. And for what it's worth, there IS a way to un-publish your site if needed. Unpublishing is the simple the act of deleting the files in your public folder associated with your website. Your files all remain intact in that private, hidden folder. Unblushing is not used often, but sometimes it comes in handy.
In the upper right hand corner of the editor is a blue button that says "Publish". Click that...
In fact, all you are doing is asking weebly to take a copy of your files that reside in some private folder that is not visible from the internet and you are asking weebly to place a copy of those files into a public folder that is associated with that subdomain name you specified earlier. It is just a copy and paste action happening behind the scenes (actually it is a synch, so older files or renamed files are removed, but don't worry about those details).
Click on the URL presented in the "Website Published" message and you should see your new website, live and online!!
So -- to pound it home -- each time you "publish", all you are really doing is copying files from a private folder to the public folder associated with your website. And for what it's worth, there IS a way to un-publish your site if needed. Unpublishing is the simple the act of deleting the files in your public folder associated with your website. Your files all remain intact in that private, hidden folder. Unblushing is not used often, but sometimes it comes in handy.