He does have to worry about redirects if he wants to use both names. I mean he could just republish his site over under the new account, but its easier just to set up the redirect. At least that's what I think.

Eric English said:

"... he could just republish his site over under the new account"

Before that, the original poster said:

"I have designed a site on my desktop called mywebsite.com, I have not published it to the web."

Hard to republish something that wasn't published in the first place.

And there's no evidence that he actually wants to use two different names, or if both domain names are even available or already owned by him. He seems to be most interested in changing the name to avoid doing some site rework.

This sounds like Visual Site Designer. If you want to change the name, open it and choose 'save as' and give it a different name.

When you decide to publish, VSD will know that the first page (the 'home' page) of your site has to be called index.html.

Hiya Robert,

Follow everything that Inger said and then also be aware that if you publish it online you'll want to make sure you have a domain name purchased so you can access it easier and so others can too.

One thing that helps me when I want to keep more than one website on my computer ( in case you decide to create other websites ) is to name the projects on my computer for the name of the actual purchased domain name rather than generic ones like newname.com etc. This way you will be sure you won't accidentally be opening and editing and uploading one, while thinking you're on the other. Much easier to keep things organized that way. Just a thought