Before a site can be viewed with a browser, the content of a StudioLine site needs to be converted to a compatible format and transferred to a web server.
Renders the current site to browser compatible HTML documents, graphics and media files, and stores the site on a local drive for preview. A prompt will offer to render any updated pages and to include any pages you select manually.
During the render process, a progress bar estimate the time to completion, based on the number and size of pages and objects.
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Copies rendered pages from the local drive to the web server.
StudioLine will open the panel Pages to Publish, ready to transfer only new or updated files. The user can customize that list of pages to be published.
If pages were deleted from the site, then the appropriate files will be removed from the server.
Note: This function requires some network connection to the server, e.g., via the Internet or a LAN.
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Maintain Publishing Profiles and select the current profile to be used for the Publish or Unpublish Page functions.
A page may be excluded either from all publishing profiles, or just from the currently active one. This option is page-specific. It is not available for the home page of a site.
When a page is excluded, it will not be rendered and/or published. If that page had previously been published, it will be deleted off the server. Links to excluded pages that are rendered as "No Link" on any referring pages. Automatically generated navigation links, such as “previous” or “next”, will simply skip past any excluded page. If the referring pages already exist on the server, they will automatically be updated.
Use this option to exclude new pages that are not yet ready for public viewing. By excluding a page from only the current profile, one could omit the page from a production server, but still upload it to a staging server for testing.
Another possible use is a page that act as project notepad. By excluding a page from all publishing profiles, it will be visible only to the StudioLine user but not to regular web site visitors. Such an “internal” page could be used to collect notes, contact informatin, to-do lists, reminders, images, font samples and other information related to the current site.
Opens the browser to preview the rendered site from the local drive.
Opens the browser to view the current content on the web server.