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Website Creation Process

by willow77
9 replies
Is there a way to work on creating, designing, and uploading all
files to your website without it being live on the web until you are
ready for it to be?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Willow77
#creation #process #website
  • Profile picture of the author Graham Maddison
    Originally Posted by willow77 View Post

    Is there a way to work on creating, designing, and uploading all
    files to your website without it being live on the web until you are
    ready for it to be?
    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Willow77
    If you use wordpress you can have a wordpress based website and in the settings area, you can select privacy to exclude the search engines whilst you build it.

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    • Profile picture of the author BlaineGlynn
      Originally Posted by Graham Maddison View Post

      If you use wordpress you can have a wordpress based website and in the settings area, you can select privacy to exclude the search engines whilst you build it.

      Graham

      People can still see your site if you do this, it just wont be indexed by most search engines, however I've done this and its not a bad idea

      If you really want it to be hidden to everyone but you:

      -Go into your hosts cpanel
      -Select "password protect directories"
      -And choose the folder that your website is in

      This will change your .htaccess file so that you must authenticated and put in a username/password to even get to any of the files in your site, google can't crawl you, people can't browse and its secure enough to keep people out. (works with static, php, wordpress, joomla whatever)

      Good luck

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      • Profile picture of the author bobwilson37
        You will have an Index page set for your domain. You temporarily use "Page Under Construction" Page instead of your actual index page. And later when you want to publish, replace index page with the actual page you want to publish.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Riley
    Originally Posted by willow77 View Post

    Is there a way to work on creating, designing, and uploading all
    files to your website without it being live on the web until you are
    ready for it to be?
    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Willow77
    Just name your index file something like indextemp.html and leave the placeholder index file in place. Then, when ready to go live delete the placeholder and rename indextemp.html to index.html ... and voila!
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Guthrie
      Originally Posted by Kevin Riley View Post

      Just name your index file something like indextemp.html and leave the placeholder index file in place. Then, when ready to go live delete the placeholder and rename indextemp.html to index.html ... and voila!
      Or do what Kevin suggests! And he speaks French!
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    • Profile picture of the author saintsguy
      Neat trick Kevin,thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author willow77
        Thank you guys so very much. Excellent tips. I have searched all
        over trying to figure out how to do this. Wow and both ways will
        be very easy to do also. Since I'm a newbie EasyTO Do is Great!!!!

        Thanks again for you taking the time to help.

        Willow77
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill Guthrie
    Originally Posted by willow77 View Post

    Is there a way to work on creating, designing, and uploading all
    files to your website without it being live on the web until you are
    ready for it to be?
    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Willow77
    Does this website currently get any traffic? If not, live pages--even if not perfect--likely won't hurt you.

    A good html editor will allow you to have all your pages open (not uploaded, mind you) for your testing purposes.

    All best,
    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    I put password protection on the site using htaccess and I also add a robots.txt file that denies all robots.

    Problem with just renaming the index file is it can get indexed by the spiders and if it is not finished you could have a pretty bad ranking.. Spiders "DO NOT" need links to follow in order to index pages or folders on your site.

    James
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