After creating your Web page, in order to make it accessible to people around the world, you have to transfer it to a computer called a server. Furthermore, to ensure that people around the world see your Web page as you have designed it, you must ensure that the files on the server are exactly the same as those on your PC. When your Web page is relatively simple, it is not difficult to maintain the files on the server. If your Web page uses more than ten files, however, keeping track of the files on the server and your PC becomes difficult. To overcome this, we use the idea of a site.
When we use a site, a folder is created that acts as virtual server for file control. The site takes over the responsibility of controlling the files that constitute your Web page. Whenever you transfer files to the server, all the necessary files are found automatically. Files that have already been sent and not modified will not be transferred. When you are using a site, Homepage Builder can spot mistakes in the links within your Web page, as well as helping you create an effective Web page.
Although you can edit a page without using sites, sites enhance usability as follows:
You can easily know the status of your Web page!
You can display the hierarchy of the links in your site, beginning with the top page, as well as page links, file links, and lists of page links (site control area Link Pane). A list of files to be transferred when transferring a Web page to the server as well as a list of unused files with no links can be displayed (site control area File Pane).
Web pages can be transferred and updated easily!
When you transfer your Web page to the server, you can send your files one by one. It is much more convenient, however, to use the [Site Upload] function. With this function, the files that need to be uploaded are selected automatically. For example, you can easily specify the uploading of only those files that have been updated since the last upload or those that you have updated today.
All Site check!
You can check the two factors, that is, if all image files include explanations, and spellings for all the pages in the site at the same time (Site Check).
Automatic updating of links!
Sites are useful when you want to change the file names of pages and/or images. When you are using a site, the software automatically finds any linked pages and updates the references.
You can create a site even after you have created your Web page.
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