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Going live

Where
Demo domain replaced by yours every .html file, sitemap.xml, robots.txt — find https://nitip-html-marcframe.vercel.app (Editing the site)
Name, contact details, address every page (header, footer, Contact page)
Titles and descriptions each page’s <head>
Icons and share image replaced favicon.ico, icon.svg, apple-icon.png, opengraph-image.png (1200 × 630 or larger)
Demo text and placeholder images replaced the pages, assets/images/
Forms deliver to you assets/js/config.js (Forms)
Style guide kept or deleted style-guide.html
Stylesheet rebuilt if you changed the theme or used new classes npm run build:css (Making it look like your brand)

Leaving “Nitip”, the London address or the sample case studies on a live site is the most common mistake — search the folder for “Nitip” one last time.

Everything except the tools:

Upload Leave out
all .html files, services/, projects/, blog/, careers/ node_modules/, src/, docs/
assets/ package.json, package-lock.json
favicon.ico, icon.svg, apple-icon.png, opengraph-image.png README.md, CHANGELOG.md, LICENSE.md
sitemap.xml, robots.txt

(Uploading the extra files does no harm, but there is no reason to publish them.)

Host How
Netlify Drag the folder onto Netlify Drop. Done — then add your domain.
Cloudflare Pages, Vercel Upload the folder or connect a Git repository; no build command, output folder is the root.
GitHub Pages Push the folder to a repository and enable Pages.
Shared hosting (cPanel, Plesk…) Upload through the file manager or FTP into public_html (or www).

No build command, no server software. Pages link to each other as about.html, so no server configuration is needed either. Most hosts serve 404.html for unknown addresses automatically; on Apache add ErrorDocument 404 /404.html to .htaccess.

Add it in the host’s domain settings and point your DNS where they tell you (usually an A record or a CNAME). Turn on HTTPS — every host above does it for free.

  1. Check the pages. Click through every page on a phone and a laptop: menu, sliders, accordions, Load More, both forms.
  2. Send yourself a submission from the live site and reply to it.
  3. Verify the share card. Paste your URL into https://www.opengraph.xyz or a chat window and confirm the image and title.
  4. Tell Google. Add the site to Search Console, verify ownership and submit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. Bing has the same thing in Webmaster Tools.
  5. Analytics, if you want it. Paste your snippet before </head> in every page (find and replace on </head> does it at once), or use your host’s built-in analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics, Plausible, Fathom) — none of them need a cookie banner.

The pages ship with what search engines look for: real HTML, one <h1> per page, titles and descriptions per page, canonical links, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, share cards, lazy-loaded images with fixed dimensions, and a Lighthouse score of 98–100 on the demo. Keep it there by compressing the photos you add.