Publish Only Specific Pages..?

**warren** · 22 April 2009, 02:19 PM

Covoxer:
That's very helpful! Thanks much.

I definitely have a game plan to get around those tedious uploads, now.

**pauland** · 22 April 2009, 02:20 PM

I think the real problem with only transferring a few files, is that the image filenames may change and then the html won't be doing what you expect. Needs care.

**covoxer** · 22 April 2009, 02:23 PM

Yes, Paul is right. If you re-export the site after some editing, it may happen than the same images are exported with different names than they were exported before. So if you want to do a partial upload you have to make sure this is not a case.

**warren** · 22 April 2009, 02:25 PM

Oh, hmmmm, yes. I'll have to monitor the end result closely... Thanks.

**Spinny** · 22 April 2009, 02:26 PM

Yeah, that's why I keep refreshing that folder all the time. I guess that means I'm not saving all that much bandwidth by doing the FTP manually, but I have other reasons for it rather than avoiding a lot of uploads. I have a multithreaded FTP client so I just point it and shoot and let it grab everything.

**Spinny** · 22 April 2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by warren

*I checked out your website. Very cool. Great job!

Thanks!

**slavelle** · 22 April 2009, 03:17 PM

But keep in mind that the same "numbered" images may not represent the same thing on the screen when updates are made, so you can have some unusual results. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but if you re-export, picture numbers may change - like if you did a grouping or something else, what used to be 1.png may now be 5.png. If the html is calling for 1.png and then that is no longer the right picture, you could have buttons showing up in odd places, peoples faces where there should be a piece of fruit, etc.

**bconner** · 25 April 2009, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Spinny

I believe all the images (from all pages, not just index) are stored in the sub-folder that gets created when you export your site to HTML (can't recall the name, index_htm_files maybe?). Just keep the contents of that folder current with your local version and you should only have to upload changed html pages. If I do a ton of changes and things get confused I just delete both copies of that folder, re-export, and upload the newly-created local one every now and then to make sure I got rid of unused stuff.

Hi Spinny,

What did you use to get the image slider function on your site to work? Is that a stand-alone javascript? I need something similar to that for a client's site.

--Ben

**Spinny** · 25 April 2009, 08:47 PM

Ben,

It's Flash based. I created it using CoffeeCup's Photo Gallery software. You create the gallery, upload the appropriate files, and paste the code it gives you into an HTML placeholder where you want it to appear. Setting up the moving thumbnail strip and nav buttons and all that is done within the software.

At the risk of incurring the displeasure of some folks here I'll offer the link since I can't PM you.

http://www.coffeecup.com/photo-gallery

**slavelle** · 26 April 2009, 01:44 AM

Another option is the one I used recently on a site I did that is java based and free, so if you have a java vs flash preference (and don't want to spend any money) but are willing to invest some time and effort to get it to work via placeholders and the <head> tag, this link may be of help:
http://www.leigeber.com/2008/12/javascript-slideshow/

And here's a demo of it working:
http://sandbox.leigeber.com/javascript-slideshow/

One nice thing about this method is that it's easy to add pics and captions and whatnot without having to go back to the source files and re-export and all that, you can just add the files to the list tags that you want in the slideshow (and caption stuff if you want that). You will probably want to change some of the css that styles the output, but the rest is pretty easy. I've not integrated this into an XWD site yet, but I did it in a regular site and the most difficult thing was getting it to work right in my "regular site".

Hope this helps.