Sorry. Wrong list.
Phil
On Jul 18, 2004, at 5:57 PM, Phil Chappell wrote:
> Found this somewhere which may help with the folder management issues
> people are having.
> Phil
>
> Contribute TechNote
>
> Using Contribute with a .Mac account
>
> The .Mac Account
>
> Contribute 2.0 is finally available for Macintosh. We hope it was
> worth the wait!
>
> One great feature in Contribute for the Macintosh is the
> identification and automatic set up of a Contribute connection to an
> existing .Mac site. When a .Mac account is detected, the user will be
> asked whether a connection should be made to the account. If accepted,
> the connection will be set up automatically.
>
> Apple's .Mac service lets Mac users publish web pages, store files,
> get email and other online services through a dedicated account. Due
> to how the .Mac accounts work, there are some caveats to be followed
> when editing pages on a .Mac site.
>
> Static web sites consist of separate files that don't change until
> someone, using Contribute or otherwise, edits the individual file and
> replaces it on the server. Changing one file does not usually change
> the other files.
>
> ..Mac pages work a little differently in that information on your
> pages, photo albums, links to pages and other properties are stored in
> a database on the server. The .Mac publishing system will regenerate
> all pages and links between pages when a new page is added. More
> specifically, it will rewrite ALL the pages on server anytime a change
> is made to a page or a new page is added.
>
> For instance, if a new web photo album is created the entire site is
> rewritten to update all the pages with links. This means that the
> files don't really exist as distinct, separate files on the server.
>
> If you use Contribute to edit a page, and later make a change with the
> ..Mac tools, the Contribute changes will be overwritten. This is only
> a limitation for pages created by the .Mac tools; pages that are
> controlled by the .Mac server. Not all pages need to be controlled by
> the .Mac server.
>
> To get around this limitation, create new pages directly in Contribute
> that will not be attached to the .Mac tools. These pages will not be
> overwritten when a change is made to the .Mac account. There are a
> couple ways to do this:
> • Create a blank new page and publish it.
> • Create a Copy of Current Page and publish it.
>
> To create a Blank New Page, click the New Page button on the toolbar.
> The New Page dialog box will open, choose the type of new page.
> • A new blank page will be just that, a clean slate from which to
> build the page.
> • Sample Pages are pre-built pages that come in certain styles and
> color themes. Use these to get a head start on the site.
> • Copy of Current Page is a quick way to copy the look and feel of
> something like a .Mac page.
>
> It will make a copy of the current page. With the basic structure of
> the page already complete, just add custom content and publish.
>
> Selecting Copy of Current Page is a great way to add to the .Mac site
> because it will look like the rest of the site, but the page will be
> detached from the .Mac publishing engine and will not be overwritten!
>
> Be sure to give the file a different name from any existing files to
> ensure that it will not be overwritten. For instance, don't name a
> file called PhotoAlbum2.htm to PhotoAlbum3.html. This file name will
> be too similar to the auto-generated file names and may be
> overwritten.
>
> An even better solution is to make a new subfolder and add all
> Contribute files there. See below for Subfolder information.
>
> What if no web site has been established on the account?
>
> Just because a .Mac account exists doesn't mean that a web site has
> been set up. If no site has been established, the URL will default to
> a generic .Mac page not in the accounts web site. There are a couple
> choices to establish a web site.
> 1. Go to the .Mac account and start the new site. Once a page has
> been established, the Copy of Current Page method becomes far more
> useful.
> 2. Create a new page in Contribute, name it something other than
> index.htm, and publish it to the site.
>
> While this will be the first page of your web site, it will not be a
> true index page. The index page (or the homepage) is the first page
> that a user sees when going to the site. .Mac will create this
> automatically and will overwrite the existing file if the file name is
> named index.htm.
>
> The page's URL will be:
> http://your .macaddress.com/your_new_filename.htm
>
> Subfolders
>
> Contribute can't connect to subfolders within your .Mac site if they
> were created using .Mac's Homepage (webapp) tool. In other words, if
> you use the web interface to create a folder, Contribute can't access
> the files in that folder.
>
> To get around this, open iDisk site folder and manually create a
> folder within the site. Contribute will then have access to files in
> the folder.
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