Dear Richard,

Time index 6:55. I have noticed that on several occasions, as soon as you save the .asp page, you open the browser, refresh and its already published.
I am using expression web and i have to save, click site, then click publishing, then select the file to publish and wait for the process to complete!!
Could it be that you were cutting/editing some bits out of the video or is there some setting that i could set in Expression web to reduce the length of the publishing process? It would realy be nice that as soon as i save, the page is published automatically. Please let me know

MICAH

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Reply from Richard Rost:

Micah, when those videos were produced, it was possible to open up your web DIRECTLY on the server and work with the pages there. That's actually how I preferred to do things.

However, with the release of IIS7, Microsoft dropped support for Frontpage Server Extensions, so now you have to use FTP for working with your web. This means doing exactly what you talked about... keeping a LOCAL copy of your web. Editing the page, then publishing it. It adds an extra step.

With Expression Web, however, there are some shortcuts... for example, I hit CTRL-S to save and the right-click on the PAGE TAB while it's open and select PUBLISH. Works real quick. You can also create your own custom toolbar and just put SAVE and PUBLISH right next to each other. It's one more click, but it's not that bad.