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3. Preview Your Work 

Before you unveil your new web page or site, you ll want to make sure it looks just the way 

you intended. You can preview your pages anytime while you work. To take a look at your 

progress while working on a page, head to the File menu and choose Preview in Browser. 

A preview of your page will display in a new browser window.  

4. Publish Your Site 

SiteBuilder works offline, performing all of its functions   just like a word processing 

program or other desktop software   on your PC. While you re using SiteBuilder to build 

your pages, you re creating and editing files on your own computer. Naturally your 

customers and friends can t access files on your computer, so when you re happy with your 

work, you ll want to publish your site so that people can find your pages on the Web. 

When you re ready to show your creations 

to the world, you ll simply copy your page 

files from the web site folder on your 

computer to your Yahoo! Web Hosting or 

Merchant Solutions account. This transfer is 

called publishing. When you publish your 

web pages, you make them available on the 

World Wide Web. (Please note that you ll 

need a Web Hosting or Merchant Solutions 

account to publish your site.) 

Publishing is only clicks away: First connect your computer to the Internet, if you haven t 

already. In SiteBuilder, head to the File menu and choose Publish Site... (or 

just click the Publish button in your SiteBuilder toolbar), then follow the simple 

steps to publish your pages online.  

After you publish, anyone will be able to see your site by typing your web address (such as 

http://www.widgetdesigns.com) in a web browser. Not happy with your first try? Remember 

that you can edit, update, and republish your pages   even replace your work with a whole 

new site   as often as you like. 

Next Steps 

Where do you go from here? Your web site doesn t end with the first time you publish: To 

keep your visitors coming back, we recommend that you keep your site fresh by updating 

your content regularly. Keep in mind that Yahoo! offers dozens of ways to make your site 

successful. For more information, explore the rest of the SiteBuilder User Guide or browse 

our online Web Hosting guides at 

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/guides

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