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Publish to a folder on your desk and make sure your home page is called index, or if you prefer your files to be html, then index.html

Xara creates all the page HTML files and a folder called index_htm_files (or html_files). These all have to be in the same folder.

To preview, double click the index document and the site will open in your browser.

If all looks as you want then copy the entire contents of the folder to your web host's server.

Xara does a pretty good job of doing this with the benefit of only changes made after the first publish are published.

But you do need to understand that if you use Filezilla, or a stand alone FTP program, you cannot simply publish the changed pages. You will need to upload all the files and folder each time because references in the HTML files might change. This is why it is better to publish from within Xara.