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[kyguy05]

On my old computer I used Frontpage and never had any of the problems that I will talk about now.
I don't have Frontpage any more and I know most people don't think much of it anyway. This is what is going on. I recreated my website with Kompozer and it seems to be decent enough and similar to Frontpage. When I FTP the site with Kompozer, my Google Checkout cart and buttons are not there. It's the only javascript I have.
New photos that I add to Kompozer that were never on the site before FTP with no problems like they did with Frontpage. I try and fix the google checkout probem by using Filezilla to FTP. With Filezilla, all the google checkout buttons and cart work but it deletes any new photos that had been FTP'd with Kompozer. It's the same file being used with both FTP clients. I never had to FTP a photo to a directory in advance when I used Frontpage. It's been hell but I have had to do a few new photos this way. If Frontpage is that much more idiot proof than anything else, I don't know. Could some setting be set wrong when I FTP with Kompozer that causes the google cart to not be there?
That is the only problem I really have is the checkout cart is missing when I FTP with Kompozer. So with Kompozer I can publish the new photos easily but it leaves out the google cart. Filezilla fixes the cart and deletes the new photos that Kompozer published. Is this crazy? Filezilla connects every time and is fast at the FTP. Tonight I'm constantly getting the: 530 sorry the maximum number of clients (15) for this user are already connected. Even after shutting down the computer it still happens.
I'm very comfortable with Kompozer in a short time and I like it if it works or I can figure out what I am doing wrong. I have read many people having problems with adsense script and I guess that is similar to the google cart script. The site is
http://www.ultrabuys.com in case you see any source problems but it's working fine now, just cant's hardly publish
any new photos. Thanks

[agsone]

The publishing module in KompoZer is hopeless and is being completely replaced in the next version. No regulars here use it. You've found two of the reasons (530 errors and nuking javascripts) in the one attempt.

Keep using Filezilla for now, you've found the solution to your problem.

[kyguy05]

Filezilla is part of the solution. I seem to have a no win situation in my above post.

[agsone]

Are you sure those photos are being deleted by Filezilla? (sorry didn't see that aspect of your post before) Do they disappear from the right hand pane in Filezilla or do they just not show up on your website when you look at it in a browser?

Can you give us a specific example of an image on a web page appeared before but no longer does so?

[kyguy05]

The new photos made in Kompozer just don't show up on the website when Filezilla is used. The photos that were already there are not hurt by Filezilla. I just stumbled onto something that might be a problem. If you left click on my photos, and look at the properties, the link properties address and the link properties location are the same. It's working that way but you think that is causing the problem?

[kyguy05]

Can you give us a specific example of an image on a web page appeared before but no longer does so?

Everything at this minute has been fixed.

[agsone]

Everything at this minute has been fixed.

Good but please come back if there are more issues. You might have been having a cache issue on your browser which is not uncommon (it's routine for me). A force refresh fixes that (click refresh while holding down the Control or Shift key, depending on the browser).

[kyguy05]

I appreciate all the help. It wasn't a cache problem I did the Ctrl F5 plus I have firefox set to clear the cache every time the browser is closed down. My problems are not solved. The few photos that were missing I uploaded separately to the site and some way got them to appear. I'm not even sure what I did but I never had to do that with Frontpage and when I talked to register.com they said that shouldn't be necessary either. When FlieZila was leaving the new photos off it was displaying the alternate text without the photo.

[aart]

I've never used Front Page, but it's very possible that it placed new image files in the correct folder ["images" for example] on your hard drive and ensured that they got uploaded to the matching folder on your host server. I understand that Dreamweaver looks after such things too, and so it should for $399.00....and 3 or 4 years and 4 releases later they stop supporting your version....hmm.

Anyway, in KompoZer you must ensure that your image files are placed in the correct folder on your local site [prior to adding them to your page] and you must ensure that the image files are uploaded to the correct folder on your host server server. Filezilla has radio buttons where you can, for example, upload your entire image folder but choose "only if the file is newer" and a bunch more options. I am, to say the least, very green in this area, so have a look and if you need clarification come back and I'm sure that someone far more experienced than I will help you.

The alt text has nothing to do with Filezilla, it is part of the html on your page. Recall that when you add an image to a page you put in alt text which then becomes part of the html source code on your page.

I hope that this helps clarify things. Please let us know.

aart

[kyguy05]

Thanks, I'll look of a better solution than Kompozer or try the update when it comes out. After much reading I found many people have the same problems with Kompozer that I have. I like things to be easier and faster like they used to be before I lost Frontpage. It was a snap.

[wink0r]

It was a snap

. . . to put some very nasty code up on the net.

[dr-john]

With all normal ftp programs, you have to tell them to upload your images. They don't know that the images are mentioned in the web page, they see the html file as just a file. So uploading a web page will require you to also manually upload the images, css files, javascripts, etc.

FrontPage and Dreamweaver (and possibly a small number of other web design programs) read the html file and then look for related files referenced in the html file and upload that too. An ftp program only uploads exactly what you tell it to upload. Dreamweaver has one of the cleverest ftp programs for a web designer built into it.

[BobCP]

I use a temporary directory and a batch file to do it, but the FireFTP upload can be limited to files of a certain date range. Just drill way down into the options to set the range. I haven't tried FireFTP's synchronize, but that should work well for simple sites. Mine has thousands of files, which I suspect might take quite a while to compare.