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alex mattingley
7,508 PointsThe best way to demonstrate a working local site to a client
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to figure out the best way to demonstrate a local site to a client.
This is the first site I have ever built for someone else from scratch and while the design has been approved, I want to show her the finished project and get her approval before I push it live to the url that she uses everyday for her current site.
Is there anything you all recommend? I was looking at digital ocean and maybe setting up a "droplet". I was also looking at just buying another domain from student web hosting, not listing the URL, leaving the site unlisted on google and giving the client the url so she could view the site there.
Are there any good ways to do this? Are there any tutorials that might be of use?
Thanks!
2 Answers
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherAlex;
I am just speaking for myself, but I have my own domain, for the sake of argument let's call it foo.com. When customer bar wants to see the site progress I upload the site to foo.com\dev\bar. They can then take a look, make comments, offer suggestions, ask questions, etc. Poof! bar comes down from the web, get's the necessary changes, and then reloaded. Once everyone is satisfied with the product, and I get paid, it gets uploaded to bar.com, and then whatever SEO methods they want to implement can occur from there. I have yet found a need to advertise foo.com\dev\bar in search engines or whatnot as it is strictly for development. If memory serves my robots.txt file has a disallow statement to my dev directory, perhaps I should double check that.
It may not be the best method, but it does maintain my control over the site until the money arrives, or whatever "payment" arrangements have been satisfied.
Just my thoughts,
Ken
alex mattingley
7,508 PointsThis is a good idea as well. thank you!
alex mattingley
7,508 Pointsalex mattingley
7,508 PointsForward is awesome, and pretty easy to use. Thanks for your help Milo!