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Web Page Process and MS Frontpage
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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First of all to explain my situation...
I design the web page for my church and I am by no means a web guru. Basically, learn how to do it cuz we need a website deal. Anyway, I started out using PC and Frontpage. Yes, I know the people here hate Frontpage, but the fact is it is easy to use since you can see what you are actually creating vs. using a text editor. Anyhow, I know I bascially just push the publish button and voila it works. Just like I would expect a Mac to do. I know the publish button is basically just an ftp process. So here is my point...
I am now on a ibook and I want to do all my processes on my ibook. I don't want to fire up the pc just to update our webpage so what is the best webpage software to get? I don't want to spend so much time learning html so I would like to avoid things like textedit and vi etc... If there is really no choice then I will use a text editor.
If I have to use a text editor then can someone explain the whole web publishing process to me? Here is how I think it goes....let me know if I am way off.
I create html on a text editor of my choice. I then edit and use an ftp client to load to the server and voila. Now here is my next question. My server is frontpage compatible but is not unix compatible. I can have them switch to unix but not be frontpage compatible. Does OSX not have it's own ftp or sftp client built in the unix part of OSX? If so, what do I type in the command line to access the webserver and upload my pages to that server?
Thanks for any help...
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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I all genuine honesty, I don't know anything about how to accomplish what you want (uploading via Terminal), but I will say that Dreamweaver MX has treated me well (don't know about DW 2004, though a lot of people have complained about it). DW has a built-in FTP thingie, so all you have to do is find out your login name and password to access the server, and if necessary, the public folder that you upload to (for example, the hosting company that I'm with wants me to upload to its "public_html" directory).
That's the messy stuff (though the company sent me an email right away with all of that stuff, so it was easy). Once you've done that, just select a file and hit Command+Shift+U every time you want to upload a file. 
Anyway, you might want to learn HTML and CSS... even though I have DW, knowing HTML saves a lot of time and keeps the bloat level down. (Not to mention DW likes to to screw some things over, like list items  )
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Macromedia Contribute is EXACTLY what you're looking for. (No HTML coding, one button "Publish", etc.)
Some servers disable FTP access if you are using FrontPage extensions, so you may have to disable them to access the server with Contribute. Grab the free demo and give it a try.
If you really want to use a text editor and learn HTML, BBEdit has:
File > Save to FTP server
...built-in
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