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Saving Your Work. Creating A Website
Use the Save or Save As menu options to save your work in progress. This saves a file with the .web
extension, which is the native file format for Web Designer Premium (this is not a website). You are
recommended to regularly save your work as you go along. If you want to edit or update your website in
future, you must
save a .web file this way and use to do further updates.
It's also recommended that you work with the automatic backup facility turned on. This is controlled from
the Backups tab of the "Utilities" > "Options"
dialog. When on, a backup of your modified open documents is taken regularly. Here you can also
choose how the program should behave when you close it. You can either be prompted about saving or
discarding each open modified document, or have all documents automatically saved to the backup
location and restored the next time you start.
To save your website, that is the HTML and associated files for
publishing to the web, use the "File" > "Export Website"
menu option or click this button on the top bar.
This saves a .htm file for each page and a folder alongside these which contains all the graphic files that
make up your website.
When you export a website, all the pages are exported together, and each page unnamed has _1, _2 ...
appended to the end of the name you give when you export. The _files folder contains all the graphics
and other files that go to make up your website. You can name each page individually if you wish using
the Page tab of the Web Properties dialog or using the Page & Layer Gallery
.
The default name given to your website is index.htm as this is the usual name for the first page of a
website.
You can preview your saved website in any web browser, by dragging the index.htm (or any .htm) file
from your Windows File Explorer onto a browser window.
Automatic backups
The Backups tab of the "Utilities" > "Options"
dialog allows you to turn the automatic backup facility on and off. This facility saves a copy of all your
modified open documents at regular intervals. It's recommended that you work with this backup option
turned on, so your work is saved regularly. You can also choose whether you are prompted about
unsaved documents when closing the program, or if instead all open documents should be backed up and
restored for you when you next start up.
See the Document Handling chapter
for full details about these facilities.
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