[LBo] Making corrections on a web site.

[Sam Morgan]

Lonnie Mullenix wrote:

> Nvu has an option for publishing the page, but doesn't jump through the
> username and password hoops, so doesn't publish.  
>
I have used Nvu's publishing feature for several sites and it does work, for me.
I did have to mess with the settings related to the publishing address to get it 
to work.

You might tell us the error you are recieving from the server, when you try. Nvu 
uses ftp, so sftp will not work, if the site uses that.

from nvu's help file:
"If any of your files fails to publish, the Publishing Status dialog box 
displays an error message that can help you determine what went wrong and how to 
fix it. Click the Troubleshooting button in the Publishing Status dialog box to 
get help on solving your publishing problem."

FileZila is a nice ftp client for windows boxes and does ftp as well as sftp.
It does passive or active, if need be, to get around your firewalls settings.

> Bluefish does not
> offer any thing for syncing or publishing, and being the total newbie
> that I am with this web stuff, any help would be appreciated.
> 
I'll second the idea of using gftp from the linux box for file uploads. Greate 
little gui ftp program.

> I am fairly sure that I have figured out how to make the needed
> corrections to the web pages and that I can get it working properly
> using Frontpage.  However, I would very much prefer to be able to use
> Bluefish for my main html editor.  So, I need to find/figure out how to
> upload the corrections after I have made and tested them.
>
If you will take the time to rebuild the site from scratch using bluefish, 
(createing basic page templets for the site, for future page updates) it will 
then be in a easily maintained state. Meaning anyone could maintain it if you 
ever have to hand it over to the 'next' webmaster. Then run just as fast as you 
can from all things frontpage and the mess it creates, you will never regret it. IMO

A side note, I recently lost my box with bluefish on it and tried to use Nvu 
from a windows box, it also does some (IMO) squirrelly things with the code, as 
opposed to what bluefish does. I had to revert to notepad to maintain the site 
temporarily.  Having the previously created templets I was able to continue the 
uniformity between pages til I was able to bluefish going.

There were a bunch of free windows html editors I found on:
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/htmledit.html I didn't get to test them out but 
they are another option.

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God Bless,
Sam Morgan

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