Preview and Publish your Work

Now that we have completed some changes to the pages, time has come to make them available to visitors. But first, it could be useful to verify what the site will look like for the visitors, to be sure that they will see the site like we have in mind.

To do that, you can click on the “Preview” button located in the toolbar.

This will open a new tab in your browser displaying the current page in Render Mode, like it will appear for visitors if you publish it right now. You can navigate in the Preview Mode, exactly as if you were on a published web site.

If the result is correct, then go back in the Edit Mode and click on the “Publication” button in the toolbar:

There are several entries in this menu:

Publishing the “Page Name” will publish the page currently displayed and all the items that appears in that page.
Publish all under “Page Name” will publish the page and all items below, content and pages.
Publishing the site “Name of the Site” will publish absolutely everything.

The third entry is the one we want to use right now. This is very useful for a first publication, but once a site is live, if there are several editors it can be dangerous if used too often (you could publish staging content people do not want to be published yet).

As we are publishing for the first time, let’s use the “Publish Site ACME - English” option. This opens a dialog box, click on the “Bypass Workflow” button. As you are the only user on this system and acting as root, you have this capability. Normal editors would not be able to do this, and they will have to follow the workflow process. However, this is too much to explain the workflow in this Quick Start Guide.

The complete publication should take around 20 seconds, then verify what it looks like live by clicking on the “Live” button in the toolbar.

Let’s go back into the Edit Mode and perform a few other operations.