RE: [cobalt-users] Two beginner questions

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Huh? I have FrontPage sites. I have an images directory that I
> import all
> > the images into. All the images are called from that directory. No
> > duplication.
>
> Then maybe you can enlighten a number of people on how you do it.
> Personally I
> don't use FP, but all the people I've seen using it have this
> symptom. Not that
> I want to generalize from that, but it looks like you could help.
>
I don't create the site locally and then publish, if that has anything to do
with it. But, I'm not doing anything special. When I click to add an image
in the editor, I find the image in the /images directory. I just went
through one of the sites via FTP and found the images duplicated in the
/images/_vti_cnf directory, but I think these images are used during editing
on the server. Viewing the properties of any image in the browser shows that
it's being called from the /images directory and is properly cached by the
browser if it's repeated on another page.

>
> > > 3)  You will encounter random problems and Cobalt might not
> > > considerhelping
> > > you with FP priority #1
> >
> > I haven't had any problems.
>
> Well if you follow this list, you can see that others did have problems...
>

So far, all the problems I've seen related to using FTP or messing with the
FrontPage site or httpd.conf files via Telnet. I really haven't seen any
problems just pop up on their own, except for problems that the server may
have no matter whether it's a FrontPage site or not.

> I'd much prefer
> to turn the
> > keys over to the client and just get a lump sum for design and
> then get an
> > occasional fee for fixing any problems or changes they can't
> handle down the
> > road.
>
> ???? Are you saying that FP is the only way to "turn the
> keys over to the client" ?
>
For most clients who aren't going to learn a new piece of software or learn
HTML, it is the best way I've seen. It also allows them to simply add forms,
counters, site search functions, discussion board, all without any special
configuration or CGI scripts having to be added.

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Dan Kriwitsky