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Ok. In this last movie, let's take a look at publishing your website. Now that you've got a website created and it's all linked together and ready to go, you want to make sure that you've got some place to put that website. Now, right before you publish your website, I would always go over here to your task pane and run the design checker. Let it go through it. It can check the links for you, it can make sure that you have email information in there correctly, that you have the at sign and the dot in the correct places. So let that run through, check all your information, make sure the layout is good. It'll watch for pictures. Right here it's telling me I have a low-resolution picture so it might not show up that great. So anyhow, let that run. It'll give you some good ideas. Now, what you want to do is go through the publishing your website. The very first button on our web tools toolbar is that button, so if we click it, right here it tells you you have to have a web hosting provider. You can click this link to find a host provider or you can click OK and right here is where it's getting started. It wants to know the file name or the web address. You'll notice most web pages, the main home page begins with index. It's either going to be called index or it's going to be called default. So you'll need to know from your web host provider what name you need to use. Most of the time you can use either, or some of them do require one or the other. Now, to find a web host provider, you can simply go out to the Internet, let's go to Google again, type in web host provider and right here there's all kinds of places. There's several at the right. Let's click on one of those. Right here you can go through and look at all of their information. We'll see they're comparing theirs with everybody else, what their monthly cost is, email accounts, disk space, etcetera. If you click up here, we can go to web site hosting specifically and as we scroll down, we can see how much, if you want a years worth, 36 months worth, whatever you want to try, whether you are on a Linux or Windows-based host. If you're using Publishers, you're probably on a Windows-based so you want to look at that to make sure that you're selecting the right host. And down here, how much space do you need? You'll need to check how big your website is. Most likely you've got tons of space. Rarely are you ever going to lose out on that. The gigabytes are huge. Transfer, how many times you're going to be transferring information back and forth and how many email accounts do you need? Right here they MySQL databases. Those can be used if the have the forms like we did and that information can dump into the forms when people submit orders possibly or they submit correspondence. That could dump right into a database so then people could fulfill those orders on the other end or contact people that may have questions. There's email forwarding forums, blogging, galleries. Those are all kind of extras. If you want to add a blog later on to your website, supposedly this company has an easy way to do that. And photo galleries, if you maybe have a family website and you want to have a photo gallery area you could do that. And of course, then we've got Ad Words and Ad Center, webmaster tools, all kind of information. But basically, all you have to do, go out to Google, type in website host and take a look around at some different ones. You might want to get opinions. Type in there opinions and see if you can get different areas that will tell you how people have worked with these different places. You can call them and talk to them. There's probably also some local website hosts within your town. You can run your own server and be your own web host if you want to, but typically it's much easier just to allow somebody else to host that place for you and definitely, one thing you want to look for when you get a website host, make sure they do backups so that if their server or their computer crashes that is holding your website, that they will have a backup of it so you don't lose everything. Of course, you should have a copy of all those files locally on your computer, but as time goes on and you change your website, possibly weekly or monthly or even daily, sometimes you forget so make sure they do provide regular backups. And they also provide free or easy tech support; maybe a chat room or an email so you can easily contact them if you have questions or maybe your form on your website isn't working properly and you want to make sure that everything's loaded on their end. So find an easy way to make sure you have simple contact and you definitely have a backup system in place with that host. So take a minute, go out there online and look around for some different web hosting options for your website.