Edit from two locations

[bigdaddy]

My business partner and I work on website from our homes. How do we download
the alterations made by one so as to not lose or have to duplicate work?
That is to ask: we both run Publisher, how do we share files, directly
download web pages or some a futile e-mail attempt?

 

[bigdaddy]

Thanks for the info. Might just go with the e-mail option, as not sure about
the capabilities of my host....and oh yeah, vista sucks

 

[vince]

already knew vista would suck....just like XP did, not that i'll ever
use vista, only used XP till 2 years ago
you know what would be better to do would be to use a wysiwyg html
editor, that way all you have to do is upload the site, then edit the html
i just set up a group, join if you want, don't know who else will show
up there
http://groups.google.com.au/group/2240nvu/browse_thread/thread/9af989df48e4bcc7/#
give it a try, when i first started with it, it seemed hard, because
like a lot of people, i had used pub for ages, cause it is simple,
insanely simple, i stopped using it when my pages wouldn't load in some
browsers at the time, i realised it might look and feel slick, but it
was really shit, once i had used NVU for a while, i realised what power
it had, it is truly a great piece of software, you owe it to yourself to
give it a try, after all it is free

 

[John G]

David,
I believe you use Pub 2000.
As far as I can see, if you start a WEB PUB in pub2002/3 (or I guess
2007) and then save it as .htm or.html then there is no .pub file
created.
Just the (name).htm and the (name)folder containg all the other files.
It is possible to save a .pub file but it does not seem to be
inevitable.

My site that you looked at some time back has no .pub file associated
with it.
Then if you call it anyting but INDEX.htm there will be problems after
it is uploaded

 

[DavidF]

Publisher web pages are edited from the original Publisher document,
therefore that is what you need to share....not the html files. You could
potentially email the file to each other, or perhaps just upload it to your
webhost for storage, and download it from there. Hopefully you both have
broadband as the file can get pretty large.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Hi John,

Sorry my answer should have been phrased better.

The OP wanted both his partner and him to be able to make changes in their
website by editing the html files on their host. However, Publisher is not a
html code editor...you do not directly edit the web files (index.htm, the
index_files folder and all the *.htm and graphic files within it). If you
want to make changes in your website, you go back to the original Publisher
file (*.pub), make the changes, produce new html files/web files and upload
the new files to your host.

So the OP and his partner have to find a way to share the updated Publisher
file (*.pub)...not the web files (*.htm) produced by Publisher. As was
discussed they can simply email the Publisher file to each other after they
make changes, or as I suggested upload the Publisher file to their host
after they make changes. This Pub file can be stored on their site without
affecting the html files and be available to download by the OP or his
partner when they wanted to make changes. You would treat the Pub file
exactly how you would a PDF or perhaps a DOC file:
Including external files in a Publisher web:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80561.aspx

I hope this is more clear...

DavidF