I have a website which has now become rather large (70MB).
I recently needed to build a large annex to the main site (currently 50MB), so I decided to get an additional domain name so that I could build the new section and keep it separate while it was beta tested.
The two sites are required to be interlinked with various hyperlinks.
While I appreciate that I could add this new site to the main website I would like to keep them separate for various reasons.
What would be the best (correct) way to achieve this please?
Further:
At what point is a websites size deemed to be in need of splitting and does this make things go that much faster?
Are you referring to the Freeway document, or the published site? If
you click on the Site folder (as defined in the Document Setup dialog)
within the Finder, and then choose Get Info from the File menu, you’ll
see the actual size of your site, which is probably pretty svelte,
unless you’re posting a lot of movie clips. The Freeway document size
has very little bearing on how large your published site is, and the
only way it will impact you is in how long it takes to open and save
the document on your Mac.
Now as to your question, if you choose to host the two parts of your
site at separate domain names, you will need to make manual links from
one section to another, just as you would if you were linking from
your site to apple.com or similar. So rather than choosing a page from
the list of pages in the Hyperlink dialog, you would click on the
External link segment and enter the URL to the page or folder that you
wanted to link to. This would have to be a fully-qualified URL, like http://www.example.com/pages/page.html . Within each site, links to other pages in that same site could be
made by picking from the list, but links to the other domain would be
completely manual, since it’s literally a different server.
Walter
On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:40 AM, David Reed wrote:
I have a website which has now become rather large (70MB).
Maybe when you get to 300+ pages, and then only if you have a less-
than-capable Mac to work on. If you have anything remotely modern you
will probably not run out of steam until that point. You will probably
get a lot of mileage out of collapsing your site into folders (in the
Site panel) to make the interface easier to navigate. That way you can
concentrate on one part of your site at a time. This will also be a
great first step to splitting the site later, since each folder can be
taken over by a separate Freeway document after the splitting takes
place.
Walter
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:41 AM, David Reed wrote:
The two ‘Site folders’ are 29 and 23MB respectively.
I understand that you can split sites within Freeway5, so would
this be worth considering?
The two sites have 144 and 216 pages respectively and both are collapsed into folders containing all the various pages, so a split (if required) should be easy to achieve!
Incidentally, I’m running an iMac 2.8GHz with 4GB Ram.