Introducing Custom Web Publishing With FileMaker Server, you can publish your FileMaker database on the Internet or an intranet in these ways. Instant Web Publishing: With Instant Web Publishing, you can quickly and easily publish your database on the web. You don’t need to modify your database files or install additional software—with compatible web browser software and access to the internet or an intranet, web users can connect to your database to view, edit, sort, or search records, if you give them access privileges. With Instant Web Publishing, the host computer must be running FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Server. The user interface resembles the desktop FileMaker Pro application. The web pages and forms that the web user interacts with are dependent on the layouts and views defined in the FileMaker Pro database. For more information, see FileMaker Instant Web Publishing Guide. Static publishing: If your data rarely changes, or if you don’t want users to have a live connection to your database, you can use static publishing. With static publishing, you export data from a FileMaker Pro database to create a web page that you can further customize with HTML. The web page doesn’t change when information in your database changes, and users don’t connect to your database. (With Instant Web Publishing, data is updated in a web browser window each time the browser sends a request to FileMaker Server.) For more information, see FileMaker Instant Web Publishing Guide. Custom Web Publishing: For more control over the appearance and functionality of your published database, use the Custom Web Publishing technologies available with FileMaker Server. FileMaker Server, which hosts the published databases, does not require FileMaker Pro to be installed or running for Custom Web Publishing to be available.