How important is it to publish your website?

Question

Im new to frontpage,and publishing takes forever from frontpage so I copied the webpages and just stuck it in a folder that is on the sever,it works. So why did my boss want me to publish it instead of sticking it in there. Please help

Answer 1

All web editor programs (such as frontpage or dreamweaver) have a function called "publishing".
All of them do it badly, slowly and inefficiently (and the set-up is usually too complex for beginners)
Using an "FTP" program, you access your server, and directly put your pages on the server: that is publishing.
Important ? Well, if your site is not "published" on a server, it won't be seen by anyone!
Just to annoy you a little more: publishing is not enough to get exposure: you also need to SUBMIT it to search engines, usually once a month. Pain in the *** if you ask me: I manage over 100...

Answer 2

You can use the "Publish" function in many web page authoring programs, such as:

Netscape Composer
Microsoft FrontPage Express
Microsoft FrontPage
to quickly and easily upload your pages to the server.

Which does nothing more than stuck it in a folder that is on the server for you. Maybe FrontPage is not configured correctly need to set up to publish properly.

Answer 3

Publish mean put on the server. (Put online.) You seems already published you web page. :)