RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 - Frontpage and FTP permissions - Cobalt, read this

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>This FrontPAge "bug" has me a bit scared. Currently I am in the
||>process of
||>migrating a few hundred AT&T shared hosting clients over to
||>RaQ4's ( hosted
||>by AT&T). I would say that 75 - 90% of these customers are using
||>FrontPage.

I'd say don't be worried.
I, too, have successfully fiddled with FP files with FTP... but then again I
know what I'm doing.
So do you, obviously! So I think you'll have no problem. I think it's really
when people who aren't chin-deep in both methods start fiddling, that's when
the problems occur.
Remember, 99.9% of errors occur between the chair and the keyboard.  ;)

Someone else mentioned FP for donkey work. I agree it's great for that - any
editor is - if your site isn't complex or using special DHTML or javascript
or such n such. But for stuff that I need to change quickly, or *might* need
to change quickly or site-wide, I just use SSI. Even with Dreamweaver I
found it was quicker to just hand-code than bother doing the pages in the
program and then cutting out all of the extraneous code thrown in there.
Those differences between an 8k page and a 32k page start getting important
eventually.  ;)
Believe me, I've often thought about it for donkey work, especially late at
night when my fingers are tired! But I'm just not satisfied enough with the
finished product.
And I'm not a Gates-hater... after all I'm typing this on a Win98 (not SE -
bleh) box. Telling customers how to fix Win problems and writing how-to's
for cleaning up Windows messes has made me thousands of dollars. But I just
can't bring myself to use FP for anything more than image mapping, lol. :)

Show of hands... who can spot a FP-made site before the first third of the
page has finished downloading?  ;)

Carrie Bartkowiak