Best way to preview a website?
I am developing a website via Dreamweaver I am aware of the preview option in Dreamweaver.
I was just wondering could anyone advice the best way to preview the website as if it was in a live environment.
Was thinking of getting some free web hosting to look at website but not sure of good ones?
Some one also mentioned Apache?
Any help greatly appreciated?
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The preview option opens the site in you4r default browser i.e. Internet Explorer. It is about as live as it gets. The only difference would be load times for people with slower connections. Find access to a free ftp site and upload your files there, but be warned, they may get deleted without notice by the administrator.
But if you are developing a website, where do you plan to have it hosted? If you don’t own a domain for it yet, You are putting the cart before the horse. Dreamweaver has this excellent file management feature you can use to automatically upload the files you changed to the hosting server. But you gotta have the domain set up and hosted on a server. You should do that first.
Save the file in dreamworks as example.html and then either double click on it or go to File-Open and browse to it in Internet Explorer.
You don’t need a web server to view a website if your just doing basics.. (dynamic content may need a small IIS to run, but no need for another PC!)
The best way to dev IMHO is to have two monitors, one w/ your dev app, and the other w/ the page up in your browser of choice (don’t forget to test w/ real browsers, not just the ones in the dev app!) Load the files directly from the browser, and use F5 (refresh) to view it as you make changes!