Publishing a Web Site in Microsoft Expression Web 2
September 15th, 2009 by Jerson
Developing a site offline and then publishing it to a live server is always the preferred choice. If you develop directly against a live site, any problems you encounter while developing your site (and there will be some) will be visible to everyone who visits your site.
You could, of course, put up one of those graphics that you see on many sites that say “Under Construction,” but the way I see it, if a site is under construction, it should be on a development computer, not on a live Web server. After all, an artist doesn’t paint a masterpiece while the canvas hangs on a museum wall. A professional Web developer will always develop a site offline and then publish it to the Internet or intranet.