Summary

By following the tutorials in this book, you have created a basic website with a lot of functionality. The last step of any web design process is to publish the site so that others can access it and enjoy the results of your hard work. That is when Expression Web 4 goes from being a web design and authoring tool to becoming a file and website management tool.

When your site is completed and ready for the world to see, Expression Web 4 offers you six different methods for publishing your content, all with benefits and setbacks. Those methods are FTP, FTPS, SFTP, FrontPage Server Extensions, WebDAV, and file system. In this hour, you learned what each of these options mean and when they are used.

There is no correct answer to the question, “Which method should I use?” And, after setup, the actual publishing and file-copying processes are the same regardless of what method you choose.