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Testing and publishing your site

Your site is complete and ready for the world—but before you publish it on a server, you must test the site. Depending on the size of the project, client specifications, and kinds of browsers that visitors will use, you may need to move your site to a staging server where it can be tested and edited. When corrections have been made, you publish the site where the public can access it. Once the site is published, establish a maintenance cycle to ensure quality, respond to user feedback, and update the site's information.

Use the following Dreamweaver features to test and publish your sites:

	To add new tags in a page or fix your code, use Dreamweaver's Reference panel to look up JavaScript, CSS and HTML code. See Using Dreamweaver's Reference panel.
	Use the JavaScript Debugger to help you fix JavaScript errors in your code. The debugger lets you set breakpoints in the code, then allows you to view the code as a page is debugged right in Dreamweaver. See JavaScript Debugger overview.
	Run browser and plugin checks, test and fix links in your documents, and run site reports to check HTML files for common mistakes. See Testing and publishing overview.
	In Dreamweaver's Site window you'll find many tools to help you manage your site, transfer files to and from a remote server, set up a Check In/Check Out process to prevent files from being overwritten, and synchronize the files on your local and remote sites. See Site management and collaboration overview.