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SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites

By : Mike Poole
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SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites

By: Mike Poole

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
SharePoint Designer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Publishing Our Site


So far, we have been working on our site "locally" (i.e. on our own computer). Let's go ahead and publish our site, so that other users on our network can view it.

  1. Go to File | Publish Site.

  2. Select the FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Services option.

  3. Type the address of the site you would like to create in the Remote Web site location field. I am going to use http://olmec/hello. Note that I chose an address without a space in it.

  4. Click OK.

We will see the following two dialogs once we have done this, because we are creating a new site.

The first dialog asks us whether we would like to create a website at our selected location, if it has not been done so.

The next dialog warns us that publishing our site in this manner (as opposed to working on the remote files directly) has limitations in the functionality that we can use. We have not added any SharePoint content yet, so can simply click the OK button.

Once we are past the warning dialog, our Web Site pane opens in...