Sometime around 20/2/08 (at 19:41 -0500) hugh said:
Freeway will, of course, publish a full 100 page site to a folder
(given time and a cup of tea). All I’m asking is for the option to
publish pages 1, 33 and 39 to another folder!
My apologies. But perhaps I can help, as it really isn’t as complex
as it might seem!
Here’s one approach that you could take. One out of many different
approaches I should add, but one that should help you do the sort of
thing that’s been discussed, without anything more than making use of
Freeway’s own features. No, it doesn’t get around the fact that if
you need to publish and upload 100 pages that can take a little
time. But of course, most of the time you’re not uploading all 100
pages… you’re only uploading the ones that have been changed since
the last upload.
In your Freeway document’s Site panel, make a new folder and call it
something like “development” (without the quotes, naturally). Drag
all your pages and folders into this new folder.
Now make a holding page at the ‘top level’ in the Site panel, where
your existing pages used to be before you shoved them into the new
folder. Make this your index.html page so this will always be shown.
At this point, the only way someone can find your other pages is if
they guess the folder name. Security through obscurity.
If you want to have a folder for your ongoing development AND a
folder for your client to look at, just make another folder and drag
some pages into that one. The client can visit the one they are told
about, and they won’t know about the one they haven’t been told about.
You’l have to make sure you don’t have working links that go from one
folder to the other, or the client may simply click their way to the
other folder without even realising it! You can use Freeway’s Link
Map view to check where each page links to.
Again, I realise this isn’t what’s been discussed. But does this help
explain one folder-based approach? The really cool thing about doing
this is that Freeway will manage all links for you as you juggle
pages and folders. Sure, you’ll need to republish every page that
links to something that you’ve moved, but all links are kept up to
date; it all just works as you drag your pages into and out of
folders in the Site panel.
If this doesn’t really help much, please don’t let my comments stop
anyone from thrashing out possible alternatives. Softpress’s
engineers read this list, and if there are ways to solve problems
that make sense in the big scheme of things and don’t cause other
problems (remember, they’ll have the kind of overview that us users
struggle to glimpse) then those is likely to appear SOME day. But o’
course we mustn’t start to think this is a magic way to bend an
application to our own personal desires.
k
(going to see System 7 and Eatstatic at Heaven tonight, whoooo!)
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