Operation Manual

Previewing and Publishing

The WebPlus publication is exported to a temporary folder, and your

Web browser launches, displaying the site’s Home page. (If your

system tries to connect to the Internet as the browser launches, you can

dismiss the connection dialog. No Web connection is required for

previewing.)

If you saved the animated GIF on the Home page, you’ll see it come

alive now!

Y As you move the mouse pointer over hyperlinks or hotspots, you’ll

see the cursor change to the familiar “hand.” Click the hotspot you

placed over the boat in the photo (notice that its border line is now

invisible), and you’ll jump to page 2.

Previewing gives you a chance to see the site the way your visitors will

experience it. Keep track of how fast your pages display in the browser,

and remember that the Web will certainly slow them down! Check out

each page and take notes on any problems, then go back to WebPlus

and make any necessary corrections.

You can preview just one page (or a range of pages) instead of all the

pages, by changing the setting in the Preview dialog. All previous

temporary files are deleted each time you preview. This means, for

example, that if you’ve already previewed the whole site, and then

choose to preview just one page (say, to check revisions), the

previously exported pages will no longer be available. If this is

inconvenient, you may wish to use the Publish to Folder method,

described next.

Publishing to a local folder

This option, like previewing, exports your publication pages to HTML

and graphics files. The key differences are: