The process of making website changes live and accessible on the internet. Publishing deploys your work to production servers where visitors can access it. Framer's instant publishing makes changes live immediately when you click publish.

Routing rules that internally map one URL path to another destination without changing the visible URL in the browser. Rewrites are useful for multi-site setups, legacy paths, and proxy-based integrations.

A pre-production environment used to review and test changes before they go live. Staging helps teams validate content, layout, and behavior safely before publishing to the production site. See Publishing your Framer website.

A Production Domain is the primary public hostname connected to a live site deployment for real user traffic.

Site Preview is a non-production view of a site used to test design, content, and interactions before a production publish.

Framer custom domains let teams publish production websites on their own domain, keeping collaboration, hosting, and launch workflows in one place.