Publish Website
Publish your website immedialtely on the internet with the built in ftp client.
You need a web server to publish your website on the internet. Usually a website hosting service will provide you access to a web server, but you can also operate a web server by yourself.
Goldfish will not help you to find a hosting service or register a domain like www.mywebsite.com. But you can find many hosting services with Google.
The code files which Goldfish creates must be uploaded to your web server (blue cloud). The visitors of your website get in touch with your webserver and receive your website from there.
If your website is complete you can publish it directly from Goldfish with the built in ftp client. You need ftp access to your web server to publish your website. Choose File > Publish Website... from the menu.
Enter the address of the ftp server, the user name and password. And click on OK. The webserver will be connected. A list of folders from your web server is shown. You can publish your website here or navigate to a sub folder with doubleclick. Click on Publish to publish your website.
Goldfish remembers all ftp logins which you have entered. You can choose a recent login with the pulldown menu at the server field. If you activate Remember Password, the password will be remembered as well.
If there is an older version of your website on the web server, the button Publish changes to Update. Click on Update and Goldfish updates your website. Only the new and changed files are uploaded.
During the build process, there may occure build errors. There are several types of build errors.
- The e-mail address is missing: You have an e-mail form or shopping cart on your website, but there is no e-mail adress to which the data will be sent. Enter the missing e-mail address and click on OK
- The internet address is missing: You have a rss newsfeed on your website, but the internet adress is missing. The internet address is needed, by rss feeds. Enter the internet address (e.g. http://www.mywebsite.com) and click on OK.
- The admin password is missing: You have a comment field on your website but the password administration purposes is missing. The password is needed if you want to delete comments. Enter a password and click on OK.
- There are multiple shopping carts on a page: You have a page with at least two shopping carts. It makes no sense to have multiple shooping carts on a page. Delete all redundant shopping carts and built your website again.
- A shopping cart is missing: You have a page with at least one product but there is no shopping cart to buy it. Add a shopping cart to the page or area template and built your website again.
If you want to build your website on the desktop, choose File > Build Website... instead of File > Publish Website....
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