WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

Previewing your site
Previewing and Publishing 289
Previewing your site in a web browser is an essential step before publishing it to
the web. It's the only way you can see just how your site will appear to a visitor.
You can preview a page or site at any time, either within WebPlus (using an
internal window based on the Internet Explorer browser) or separately using any
browser installed on your system.
To preview your site:
1. Click the down arrow on the Preview site button on the
Standard toolbar.
2. Select an option from the submenu:
• Preview in Window (shortcut Alt+P) opens the site in a new
internal WebPlus window with its own tab for convenient
switching.
When previewing in a window, you can use the Preview context
toolbar to control the preview window. Click the toolbar buttons
to navigate Back and Forward, Refresh or Close Preview, and
redisplay the page at one of several standard or custom screen
resolutions (all from a drop-down menu).
• Choose Preview Page... or Preview Site... to use an external
browser. The names will reflect which browsers are currently
installed, e.g. the entry may read "Preview Page in Internet
Explorer." If you have more than one browser installed, you can
select which browser(s) to display on the submenu. The page or
site is exported to a temporary folder and appears in the specified
browser.
To customize the list of browsers on the submenu:
1. Choose Preview Site from the File menu (or from the Preview Site
flyout on the Standard toolbar) and select Browser Preview List...
from the submenu.
The dialog displays a list of browsers registered on your system. The
WebPlus Preview submenu will list these in the order they're shown
here.