Sometime around 27/9/09 (at 21:00 -0400) rob jillson said:
when you say site folder do you mean the folder that has all me
images that is on my desktop or do you mean the folder that I upload?
Okay…
Your Freeway document produces HTML files and graphic files as part
of the publishing process. It is those things that need to be
uploaded to the web server. The ‘Site’ folder is the folder that
Freeway uses to store those things.
If you make a new Freeway document using a template then this will be
created automatically for you. If you set up your Freeway document by
typing in page dimensions then you won’t get a Site folder set up
automatically and you’ll be asked to pick one the first time you
preview your design efforts.
This Site folder should be used ONLY for this task. Don’t pick a
folder that is used for anything else.
Separately, you can store all the images that you bring into your
Freeway layouts in a folder if you like. That’s a good and tidy way
to work. It isn’t necessary, but it is a very good habit. However,
this should never be the same folder as Freeway uses to build your
site! As All Saints (that well-known band of web-designing singers)
said, “Never, ever”.
I suspect that your problem comes from having things in the Site
folder that Freeway didn’t create. If it needs to make a file with
the same name as something that’s already in there it will warn you
that something it didn’t make is about to be replaced.
(If this is an image that’s placed into your Freeway layout this will
cause problems: the image could be removed by Freeway in order to
generate the web-safe version from the layout, then it won’t be able
to generate it properly because it can’t find the original to read -
because it just removed it. The recommended way to work is to have a
Site folder that’s used for nothing else and that you don’t touch,
even for importing stuff.)
Now, you say “the folder that I upload”. Does that mean you’re
uploading your work yourself, using a third-party FTP client? There’s
nothing bad about doing this, but it is definitely not the most
efficient way to work. If you use Freeway to upload (choose File >
Upload) then it will manage everything for you, including only
uploading changed items and removing anything that’s no longer part
of the latest version of the site. Just type Command-U and leave
Freeway to it!
Sorry for the lengthy post, I thought it best to cover a few bases. I
hope it helps.
k
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