...sorry another question, sure it all goes to help knowledge sharing for the future :)

I'm doing a site, and it looks great on my local machine, i'd like to upload it to live but prevent anyone else from seeing it before the site launch.

I have two questions

I know i can go into each individual page and uncheck the box in security roles so only authenticated users can see it. This is a big faff if i have to go through all my pages to do this, is there anyway to apply security roles across the entire site?

When i want to add content to a hidden site which only authenticated users can see, i login and say add a page, but of course it has the edit buttons everywhere, so its impossible to see what my site looks like unless i log out and login as user with no edit permissions. If i open two windows then of course i can only be logged in once. I have very strict design guidelines so always need to check what it looks like when logged out.

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Maybe this is a very specific requirement for myself, though i think theres only so much you can do on your local machine and at times i need to get people to add content before i launch my site, and wouldnt want anyone to see it before then, at the moment i have my site behind a holding page, which i know could probably be crawled by google which is my main concern.

If there was a way to apply security roles across all pages that would be awesome, if there was a way to hide the site on live but be able to view in a seperate browser the site somehow while updating, that would be amazing, though i guess the latter is not such a priority..what do you think?

Would you consider a master role settings manager for future release? similar to the content manager? I think it would be a great addition.

Thanks once again

Tim

ps i feel very dumb for not realising i could do use two different browsers to accomplish this, i had tried only with two IE browsers previously.