Re: Updating a published website

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Dear David,
Thanks for your reply.
Usually when I spend time on a programme I manage to figure it out but when
I couldnt figure this one out I knew that something else had to be done. My
site is already in full swing and I do not have the programming skills to use
another programme so that will not be an option right now. I did use your
blog link that you provided and I would probably make use of the information
provided. Unfortunately I am not an IT specialist so I have made the simple
mistake of using the wrong program. Let me know if you are interested in
viewing my site.

"DavidF" wrote:

You have run up against one of the limitations of using Publisher to build
websites, and that is that the larger the site, the harder it is to manage.
As you are not using HTTP uploading, you cannot use incremental uploading,
but you want to do minor updates without uploading the whole site each time.
Your best solution if you want to stay with Publisher is to break your site
up and produce it with multiple Publisher files...or switch to a different
program. And, you should use a third party FTP program.

First download and install the free FTP client FileZilla:
http://filezilla-project.org/
With the changes in Vista and IE7, FTP uploading has been changed and many
of the directions have not reflected these changes. Using FileZila will be
easier for you. Take the time to also download the excellent
documentation/instructions and read them. The time you invest in learning
how to use FileZilla will pay off in the long run and is really not that
hard.

Then go to "Building a web site with multiple Publisher web publication
files":
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/16/81264.aspx
In this article David Bartosik describes how to reorganize your site and
produce it with multiple Publisher files. I think the most important thing
at this point is investing some time thinking about the most logical way of
organizing your site so that you can successfully link it all together, and
add sections as needed. David suggests doing this by "renaming" the
index.htm file and thus the supporting subfolder that is produced. I have my
site broken up and approach it a bit different. I have created multiple
folders on my host to contain the html output from each Publisher file. Then
I can let Publisher go ahead and use index.htm as the default. I just
include the folder on my site in the path to those pages.

To use David's example of a section called "music", instead of

http://www.yourdomain.com/music.htm
http://www.yourdomain.com/music_files/page001.htm

I would create a folder on my host called "music", and when I "publish to
the web" and produce the html output for that section, I go ahead and let
Publisher name the default "home page" "index.htm", instead of "music.htm".
Then I upload that page and the index_files folder that is produced, to my
"music" folder on my host. The links to that section would then be:
http://www.yourdomain.com/music/index.htm
http://www.yourdomain.com/music/index_files/page001.htm
I prefer this approach because it is easier for me to remember the folder
structure I created on my host than to remember what I chose to rename the
index.htm file and the resulting subfolder, but you may prefer David's
approach.

If you break up your site, you will also probably have to do away with the
wizard built navigation bars, and build your own. I find it easier to keep
things straight by writing absolute links instead of relative links, and it
helps when adding more sections.

Bottom line is that after you break your site up into sections and start
producing it with multiple Publisher files, then when you want to update
just one page, you will only have to update the one section with the page
and not the whole site. You just produce new html files and upload them to
the proper folder on your site.

Good luck. With a site as large as yours, it is going to take you a while to
reorganize and redo your site, but in the long run it will be much easier to
manage, and safer. I would be VERY nervous having one 310 page Publisher
file. I sure hope you are backing everything up! And, while you are at it,
now is a good time to consider moving to a different program altogether.
Publisher is fine for small static sites, but as you have discovered the
larger and more dynamic the site is, the harder it is to produce and manage
with Publisher.

DavidF


"Christiaan" <Christiaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B63F0CAC-7039-48F4-98D8-008E1FFE2AC4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the response Don,

Publisher has already saved my site as a filtered .htm file and is
displayed
as a .htm file on the server. My website consists of 310 pages and I am
having difficulty in updating. I only want to update 1 page but publisher
updates the entire website. The question is: how do I update or replace
for
example page 10 and only page 10?
Page 10 is a file on its own on the server but when I update page 10,
publisher uploads my entire site into that page 10 file.

"Don Schmidt" wrote:

You aren't uploading the .pub file are you? No need to have it on the
server.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"Christiaan" <Christiaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5943CC07-DB30-4FA9-864A-C99F0651A0DB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the response. I am compressing my images but I use a
background
on
each page. The FTP shortcut in my network places opens when I right
click
and
open but does not want to respond when I double click on it. The error
message says something about incorrect firewall proxy settings. I
encounter
the same problem even if incremental publish is disabled.

"DavidF" wrote:

It is my understanding that the incremental uploading only works with
HTTP
uploading, not FTP.

40 megs sounds really large. Are you compressing images before you
upload?

DavidF

"Christiaan" <Christiaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0B6A8178-4C6D-4803-8733-F9F2A9D79681@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publisher publishes my entire website of 40mb each time I publish an
update.
Incremental publishing is enabled. How do I rectify this problem? I
used
an
FTP path to publish my site.









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