Depends on what choices you made during installation, if you use source control, etc. Did you choose web application or web site? Do you use source control?

If a web application then I've found it easiest to publish to a local directory on your machine and copy the files to the server.

If a web site and using source control, best to export the site from source control and copy that non-compiled code to the server because you don't want any of the source control files on the server.

Hope that helps.