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I'm about to jump in feet first and am excited at what looks to be an astounding solution.

Fundamental kickoff question has to do with developing and launching my site. I presently have a working website that eventually I plan to replace with something built around imagevue. I understand the installation/setup process and the uploading to my root directory. Obviously I'd like to work on the site without disrupting my existing domain. I understand that I need it on the server to utilize the built-in functions. So, how do I keep it hidden until ready to launch, and of course, how do I activate the launch? Do I work first with it in a subdir to the root and move it when ready to go?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

Thats what I did. Kept it in a subdirectory while setting up/customizing, then moved everything to the root when ready.

For minimal disruption when updating, I FTP'd all the files without the index.php first. When that was complete I removed the previous html index and uploaded index.php. This way the live site was down only for a second or two.

Thanks...I received the software this afternoon and followed that logic after reading the documentation - it worked great! Now on to customization!! Thanks again,
Andrew