I made what should have been a simple change to my site (updating the Constant Contact All Star logo from 2009 to 2010), but two pages seem to have gone wonky.
The FW file seems fine, and Preview is OK, but when I upload (using Transmit), I see the wrong image/s in the wrong places (in Safari and Firefox) on these two pages:
It may just be you, but to be sure, try the Publish Everything trick.
Hold down the Control key and choose File / Publish from the main
menu. (Publish will become Publish Everything when you hold down
Control.) Then use Freeway to manage the upload, or use Transmit but
first remove all existing Web files from your destination folder. This
way you’re sure that you have all of the latest everything.
If you stick to using Freeway for your uploads, you will have an
easier workflow, as it “knows” what it has changed since your last
upload, and it will remove the files that no longer belong on your
server, and update those which have changed. Once you go through a
single upload from Freeway, all subsequent uploads are “smart”, and
only replace that which needs replacing.
Walter
On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:17 AM, JackieBarrie wrote:
I made what should have been a simple change to my site (updating
the Constant Contact All Star logo from 2009 to 2010), but two pages
seem to have gone wonky.
Thanks, but that just made things worse – the wrong images are now showing on pages that were OK before. I could cry!
If I use FW to upload, it gives the error '‘FTP server not responding’ (that’s not just for my own site, but for every site I’ve done for ages). That’s why I use Transmit.
You should try to troubleshoot that angle – Freeway is very very good
at FTP and SFTP, and there’s nothing (hardly anything) about a
standard server which could make it fail to work once you get the
configuration and settings correct.
But try this step to get things working for now, before you continue
to iron out the FTP issue.
In the Freeway Document Setup dialog, choose a new folder on your hard
drive as the Site Folder. (Make this new folder, don’t re-use the same
folder you’ve used before for anything.) Publish the site.
Now, using Transmit, open up your server’s root folder (the folder
where you see your index.html for the whole site) and select all and
delete. Then, in the left pane of Transmit, navigate to the new folder
you made previously, and upload everything in that folder to your now-
empty root folder.
You should have a complete and working site.
Walter
On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:09 AM, JackieBarrie wrote:
Thanks, but that just made things worse – the wrong images are now
showing on pages that were OK before. I could cry!
If I use FW to upload, it gives the error '‘FTP server not
responding’ (that’s not just for my own site, but for every site
I’ve done for ages). That’s why I use Transmit.
Then you may be looking at a mixture of cached on non-cached data on
your browser. Visit a different page in your browser – something like
Google or Apple. In the Safari menu, choose Empty Cache and agree. For
bonus points, now quit Safari altogether and start it back up again
(probably not necessary). Now navigate to your site (without using the
Back button if you didn’t restart Safari). You should see the entire
site complete.