Publishing to a Web site from VS 2013 is easy

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web (which is free) can be used to create a new web site application and pulish to a web site.

The steps are easy to follow and shown here:

Step 1. Launch VS 2013 Express for Web.

Step 2: Click from File -->New Website

Step3: Create a ASP.NET Web Forms application in File System . This will be using ASP.NET 4.5 SP1

Step 4: Right click Web application to display the following

Step 5: Click Publish Web site. You need to create a Profile


 

Step 6: Click the handle for import (not the ellipsis button)

Step 7: In the drop-down click <New Profile...> and provide a name. Click Publish.

The Publish Web page is displayed. VS 2013 Express for Web publishes using the Web Deploy method by default.

Step 8: Provide the information and you are all set.

Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web might also have a problem as it fails to open an existing web site.

FileZilla is a nice FTP program

In the last post I described moving an ASP.NET website contents from one hosting provider to another. What if you want to temporarily download your web site content to a folder on your computer? The answer for this is to use a FTP program that is easy to use and freely available.

FileZilla is a free FTP solution which provides both an FTP Client (allowing downloading your site content) and FTP server (you can upload files to a site) and is supported by a forum and its users.
You can download FileZilla from here:

https://filezilla-project.org/

For using FileZilla to move web site contents to file/folder system follow this link:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/03/what-is-filezilla-and-how-do-you-use-it.html

Moving your site from one hosting provider to another

Sometimes you may want move over your website hosting from one vendor to another. The reasons may be many, one of which is your bottom line, cost and options.You want to transfer your site content from the old hosting provider to the new hosting provider.

You have to purchase hosting plan with the new provider and get everything needed to run your site. You will have to consider the operating system, the servers (version and other details), email and media service, programming language or languages, the database support, database platform, content managemnt etc.

Once you buy a plan you will get access to your hosting site's control panel where you should get acquainted with all the details like http, ftp, database server access, email and the various authentcation information etc..

If you are moving a site then you already have a domain name. You may wish to use the same domain name or get a new one.

 If you are using the same domain name you should get (the new hostings provider will provide) a temporary site for making the transition.

As to moving the contents you can use any ftp program and you may find a number of them on the internet. Some of them are free. Here are what lifehacker considers five best ftp clients.
http://lifehacker.com/5039956/five-best-ftp-clients

 Read here if you are trying to move your ASP.NET site.  The website was moved using the FTP support in Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web.

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-do-you-copy-aspnet-website-on-one.html