Publishing web site

[JOCK]

I have an MS Word file and companion .html file. These files include
pictures, names, etc of my high school classmates. I update these for my web
site as changes happen. My problem is that every time I publish a change in
Word, it rewrites all other existing pictures that are not changed to my
remote site and this sometimes takes an hour for one small change. Is it
possible to only write the new stuff like I could in older versions of
FrontPage? It only gives me the option to overwrite the file on remote site.

 

[Ronx]

Are you using Word to Publish the word document? If so, ask this question
in a Word Forum or newsgroup.
If you use FrontPage to Publish, then right click on the Word file and
choose "Publish Selected Files". Then only the Word document will be
published.

Word is one of the worst programs to use for HTML editing.

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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
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[JOCK]

You probably answered my question but not to my satisfaction. I do use
FP2003 to publish. My problem lies within only one file. The '.docx' file
is 63,782 KB long and contains more than 200 pictures. If I add one picture
or delete one picture or edit one letter of text, my whole file is rewritten.
It appears I may not be able to improve my problem per your quick and
complete response. Is it possible to update my two files (docx & html)
offline and only publish the .html file since it is much smaller (680 KB)?
Thanks!

 

[Ronx]

You have me a little confused, here.
You have a .html file, and a Word 7 file.
If you edit the Word file in any way, the entire file will have to be
uploaded - you cannot break it into separate pieces.
If you edit the .html file in any way, the .html file will have to be
uploaded.

If you edit the .html file and don't touch the Word file, then you can
upload the .html on it's own (right click and choose "Publish selected
files")

In fact, you may be able to break the Word file into pieces - but it does
mean that each piece would have to be uploaded at least once to get it on
the server.

In Word, take a look at Outlining, and Master and Sub documents. The last
time I used this (in Word 95) a 400MByte file was changed to 10 much smaller
files - though the total size became nearer 450MBytes. But each subdocument
could be edited independently to the others. How this would work on the web
I don't know.

But several smaller files would probably be better both for you (editing and
uploading) and your users (downloading).
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
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[JOCK]

I started the file using Word as my base file. After saving Word, I save as
..html file with same name. Both files are in one folder of my web files. So
I use Word as an editor for .html. I use FP2003 to publish the web site.
Per your comment, it sounds like I can leave the Word file out of the web
site and only publish the .html file. This would certainly reduce my
publishing time. I basically use the web site for information only.

FYI- my file is http://www.jlbass.com/DBdir/Class_of_1959.htm (no secrets
here, just a family web site). Thanks for responding!

 

[Ronx]

I would seriously consider splitting that page into several pages. I gave
up waiting for it to load in IE8, but , considering the size of page plus
images (=1753KB) it loaded very quickly in FireFox. IE wanted to load
Office 2007 components, which possibly affected the rendering and speed.

Redoing the page in FrontPage will reduce the page size considerably -
perhaps reduce the page from 679K to 69K, since there is a considerable
amount of Word bloat.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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I started the file using Word as my base file. After saving Word, I save
as
.html file with same name. Both files are in one folder of my web files.
So
I use Word as an editor for .html. I use FP2003 to publish the web site.
Per your comment, it sounds like I can leave the Word file out of the web
site and only publish the .html file. This would certainly reduce my
publishing time. I basically use the web site for information only.

FYI- my file is http://www.jlbass.com/DBdir/Class_of_1959.htm (no secrets
here, just a family web site). Thanks for responding!

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

it wants to dl ietag.dll to my machine...yeah right.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression