Publishing Your Web Page

As you create your Web pages in Page Creator, they are stored on the Google site in a place not viewable by Web visitors. Only after you are ready to have the world see your creation should you publish your pages, meaning that Google moves a copy of your page to a publicly available place on its servers. The address of your Web site is your Google ID, followed by a dot and googlepages.com.

Previewing your page

You do not need to publish your page to see what it looks like. You can preview the page as though it had been published. This way, any pages that you have already published on the Web site remain unchanged until you are ready to update them. This means that visitors to your page won’t see your page slowly change as you edit and save changes.

To preview your page, click the Preview link found to the right of the Publish button in the blue bar along the top of the editor window. A new window opens that shows you how your new page will appear when published. An orange bar appears across the top of the previewed page telling you that this page is just a preview and has not yet been published. The page may have been published in the past, but the version you are previewing has not.

When you finish viewing the preview page, click the X in the upper-right corner of the window to close it.

How to Publish and Unpublish

When you are satisfied that your creation is ready to be made public, click Publish located at the top of the Edit page. Google makes a copy of your page and places it in your public directory. Visitors to your Web site see your new page. If you have been editing a page and have republished it by clicking Publish, visitors see your changes.

Note 

When you publish your changes while someone is viewing your site, your visitor may not see your changes until he closes and restarts his Web browser. Web browsers often keep cached versions of Web pages to speed the display of pages. Normally, but not always, this cache refreshes when the browser is closed and reopened, and the browser cache is updated with your changed pages.

After you click Publish, Page Creator displays an orange bar telling you that your page has been published and contains links that let you View it on the Web or Tell your friends. View it on the Web lets you see the page as other Web visitors will see it. Tell your friends lets you send a Gmail message containing a link to your updated page to your friends so they can see your changes.

Sometimes, you may need to remove a page from your public site, but you don’t want to delete the page completely from the Page Manager. You can “unpublish” a page - remove it from your public site - by clicking the [unpublish] link found at the bottom of the Edit page. The page is still available for you to edit and republish. See the nearby Note about browser caches. When you remove a page, it may appear temporarily while visitors view your site. This may continue until the visitor’s browser cache is updated.