Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Publishing a Web Site

When you publish a publication to the Web, Publisher creates the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files and other files needed to view your publication as a series of Web pages in a Web browser. But the pages will not be available to Web users until you place them on a Web server. In other words, you need a place to host your Web site before people browsing the Internet can see your pages.

Web Hosting

Creating a Web site is great (and easy with Publisher), but you still need a place to put it. That’s where Web hosting comes in. A Web hosting company stores your Web pages on a server that is "on the Internet," meaning that people browsing the Internet can access it. You create the pages and then upload them to the hosting company’s ...