Publish - Web, FTP, and Blog

Publish Overview

Publish Button

To 'publish' means to make a copy of your document available on the Internet. Without publishing, your documents are private and require your password to access. Once published, anyone can view the published version in a Web Browser.

If you make changes to a document after publishing, those changes are made only to your private copy and not to the published copy. This allows you to slowly refine documents and only publish them when you are ready.

Published vs Saved Versions

In the Documents pane at the left of the iNetWord editor, a W is placed next to documents that have been published. Clicking the W will show the published version in a new window. Clicking the document name itself will open the private version for editing.

Publish Dialog Box

Click on the Publish button and select one of the three publishing methods on the left; publish locally to iNetWord, FTP to Your Site, or Blog.  The "Preview in Browser" button is helpful during design until you are ready to publish your document.

Three ways to publish:

1. iNetWord:  This web site provides you a Web address at http://inetword.com/yourID. You can build your entire site there.
2. FTP to Your Site:  You can publish from iNetWord to your Web address, something like: http://mysite.com/. You can edit and refine your web pages here at iNetWord, then publish them to your address when ready.
3. Blog: You can post new entries directly to your favorite blogging site using the full editing power of iNetWord.  You can update the Blog Post template in the New pane to match the look of your blog.

FTP Publishing

FTP Publish Settings

The Publish dialog box has several settings for FTP publishing. Click the Publish Button to access Publish settings. The values are provided by your Web hosting company. They are usually shown during the sign-up process, in a 'welcome' email message, or in their on-line documentation. 

Below is a description of each FTP field in the Publish FTP Dialog box, a list of typical examples and specific company examples.  In these examples, your web site name is mysite.com.

FTP Publish Dialog Setting

Description 

General Examples

Popular Hosting Company Examples 

enom.com 

GoDaddy.com 

Network Solutions 

FTP Server 

The FTP server address for that web site. This is usually the same as the Web site itself. 

mysite.com, ftp.mysite.com, or IP address 

assigned during registration 

ftp.mysite.com 

ftp.mysite.com
or
IP address

FTP Username 

The username for the Web site account 

jjohnson88 

selected during registration 

FTP Password 

The password for that username

hey43$man 

selected during registration 

FTP upload base directory 

FTP accounts access several areas of a web site. Most accounts have a subdirectory that holds the published files. 

public, or publish, or www, etc. 

username 

(Leave blank), or use a single forward slash "/" 

/htdocs/ 

Corresponding base Web adddress 

The Web address to the top directory of your Web site. Often this is just you Web address.  

http://www.mysite.com

Expected Home Page filename 

Filename for your intended Home Page document. Viewing http://www.mysite.com displays this document.

index.html, home.html, or default.html 

index.html 

index.html or default.html 

home.html

Blog Publishing

Blog Publish Settings

Because your post is being placed on a page generated by your Blog system, formatting that uses custom or modified styles will not appear formatted the same when posted. Format your Blog post using the Heading styles or [No Style]. Explicitly apply other formatting to your text.

Even in this case, however, some Blog systems will remove your formatting and substitute their own. This is intended to achieve a consistent look for your blog pages and allows you to change the look for your whole Blog by choosing another Bog template. Whether your post's formatting is overridden may be controllable via a Blog system preference setting.

The Publish dialog box has several settings for Blog publishing. Click the Publish Button and the Blog option to access Blog Publish settings. Fill in the This Post Title with the title you wish to have shown at the top of your posting. This is unrelated to the Web Page Title within the Save As dialog box.

The Blog Server Type selector offers several popular blog hosting sites. If you are hosted at one of these sites, choose it and replace your site's name in the YOURSITE portion of the Blog Server URL. For these sites iNetWord will manage the details of the blog posting URL and API.

For other blog hosting sites and server types, select the appropriate Blog Server Type and Blog Server URL. These values are provided by your Blog hosting company. They are usually shown during the sign-up process, in a 'welcome' email message, or in their on-line documentation. 

At this time, iNetWord will remember only one Blog Publish Settings per iNetWord account.

Handy Tip

To easily edit your blog posts with the text appearing the same as when it is posted, you can update the Blog Post iNetWord template to match your Blog site template.

1. Open your iNetWord Blog Post template by clicking it in the New pane at left.
2. Update its Heading and Normal styles to reflect the formatting style (fonts, sizes, colors, etc) of your Blog site template.
3. Do Save As to save the template back to the Blog Post template. You need to do this only once.

Then click your iNetWord Blog Post template when you wish to draft a post. As you edit, your text will appear exactly as it will when posted.

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