How to best Sync Sites

[ChristineO]

I inhereted a web site to keep updated. I have made many changes using
FrontPage 2003, and found it easiest to just do the updates on the remote
(live) site. I would like both my local and remote sites to be clean and
tidy. I know the local site has a lot of junk. I'm not a web specialist by
any means - I'm very much a beginner (although I am quite comfortable with
most computer programs - I just don't know much about Frontpage and web
stuff).

How can I best clean up both sites and have them syncronized? I had been
just changing (publishing) my remote (live) site back to the local site on my
hard drive, to make sure I had a back up if something happened. But I've
gotten sloppy with it. I want to delete old files - but am afraid I might
screw something up.

Can anyone give instructions, ideas, or point me to where I can learn more
about this? I find the whole 'publish/sychro' portion a bit confusing at
times with the 'unmatched, unchanged, changed, etc.' labels - especially
after I THINK I fix everything and the next time it comes up unmatched again.
Should I maybe just copy over the live site to a whole new directory? And
start fresh?

Any and all advice greatly appreciated!

 

[David Berry]

Which site is the most up to date? If it's the live site then open it in
FrontPage and publish it to a NEW local location. (ex: C:\NewWeb). Then
you'll have the same content in both places. Now open the new local
location in FrontPage, clean it up and publish it back to the live site.

If the newer version is local, open that in FrontPage and publish it to a
new LOCAL location (so the original is always there). Then make the changes
and publish it to the live site