The first time you publish a site, you must publish the entire site. Later, when you’re fixing problems or updating information, you can generate only the portion of the site that changed.
The site’s files are generated in the HTML output format that you specify in the Browser compatibility field of the Current Site Options dialog. See Controlling Published Output.
In Publish view, Site view, or Page view, click the Publish Site button on the views bar.
The Publish Site dialog appears.
From the Publish files to drop-down list, choose Local Publish to specify your local hard disk as the destination for the published HTML files.
From the Pages to publish drop-down list, select the portion of the site you want to publish:
Entire Site. Publishes HTML files for all pages and associated assets for the site. Select Entire Site the first time you publish a site.
Current Page Only. Publishes the page you selected in Site view or Page view. Usually you use this feature if you make a change on one page and want to update just that page’s HTML files. The selected page name appears in the page field.
Select Page(s). Publishes the pages you select in the SiteStructure. Click the arrow (>>) to display the SiteStructure and select the pages you want to publish. The page name(s) appears in the page field.
If you add a page to the site, or change the site’s directory structure after publishing, make sure you re-publish the entire site and not just a site section so all the links are updated.
Select Publish changed assets only to publish the asset files that have changed since the last time you published the site.
NetObjects Fusion 12 does not query your hard disk to see if it has all the unchanged assets needed by the site. If you publish changed assets only, be sure you publish to the same location on the hard disk that you did previously, so unchanged assets are still available.
Select the Publish a Site Backup check box to store an archived version of the site in the Backup Manager. Click Details in the Backup Manager field to enter information about the version to help you identify it should it need to be restored. See Using the Site Backup Manager.
Click Publish.
NetObjects Fusion 12 creates the local directories, converts the site to HTML, and stores the site’s HTML files on the local hard disk.
Changes you make to the site while it is being stored are not included in the HTML files until you re-publish the page or section containing the changes.
When publishing is complete and your site is in place, your browser opens so you can examine the results. You can return to NetObjects Fusion 12, make changes to the site, and re-publish the site or its changed portions as needed.
When the site works perfectly you’re ready to transfer it to your ISP’s server, Web server, or other server that puts the site on the Web. Before you can publish to a remote server, however, you need to define a remote publish profile.