update web

[M. Wood]

Hi! I have a client who is using FrontPage to create her web page. For
the most part, I've gotten her to where she can do most of the updating
work herself, and then publish her pages to the web and voila. However,
recently, I needed to go into the web site to make some changes myself,
and after I had made the changes, I used FTP to update the site.

Now her local web will not contain the pages that I edited, and I don't
know enough about FrontPage to be able to tell her how she can download a
fresh copy of the site. The only way I know how to do it is to have her
delete the local web and start over with a new one, but that can't really
be the easiest way!

How can she bring down a fresh copy of some (or all, if that's easier)
pages from the server, so that her local copy of the site contains the
latest changes made?

Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

--M.B.

 

[Dick]

she needs to learn how to login to the web server with a free FTP program.
They are really quite simple to use. Download.com only has about a billion
of them to downlaod! Then, he can easily download the pages from the server,
onto her computer.

 

[K.F.]

All she needs to do is open the Frontpage web. Click 'File' then 'Publish'.
She will see both her local web that is located on her computer and the
published web that is located on the server.

Just select all of the files on the right side and drag them to the left and
voila...she has a current copy of the web located on the server. It will
automatically overwrite all outdated files and make them current.

KF

 

[Dick]

true ... but sometimes their isn't a substitute for a true FTP proggy! What
if she wants to download the files on the web server to another location
(like a CD-RW)?

 

[Bullbar]

true ... but sometimes their isn't a substitute for a true FTP
proggy! What if she wants to download the files on the web server to
another location (like a CD-RW)?

Like the man said, open the web in FP then publish it to a (local)
directory. Open your CD burning software and burn local directory to the
CD. Not a problem at all.

FTPing to a FP web is fraught with major difficulties if one isn't
extremely careful. It is NOT something I would recomend the uninitiated
do as it is too easy to damage the 'FP web'.