private launch

[Randy5]

Is it possible when you're building a web site to launch it privately? So I could, say, let only friends of mine or people on this forum see this site so they could critique it before I let the rest of the world see it?

[sgoodman]

Don't tell "the rest of the world" the web site address. Also, use a Robots.txt file to tell search engines not to index the site.

Shane.

[nickh]

You could also require users to log-in to your website before being able to see the site's content. You'd need to approve sign-ups, too, obviously.