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re: Publishing a website with Windows XP Home and Professional editions?'
Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 12:14 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ervil
(1 messages posted)
"For us techies" seems like an outdated self-qualification given the MS-DOS advice...Sorry,
couldn't resist...
Even without knowing much about computers I can think of a dozen convenient ways
to ftp under Windows XP. For an avid Word user, I might suggest this: create a Word
file, say, FTP_Links.doc. Type all you hosting website names, one per line. To each
website name, add a link (by pressing a globe with a chain link icon) of the format
ftp://username:password@hostwebsite.address
Then, every time you need to ftp files, click the link you need at the moment, and
drag-and-drop as much as you like. For a single site/single file frequent update,
consider creating a single-button macro along the same lines.
Whether this method is the best depends on user personality; there are many other
ways, of course, including tuning the Web Publishing Wizard.
On Tuesday, May 6, 2003 at 7:57 pm, Cal wrote:
>With XP, many of the old features are gone. MS decided to hose their customers
over
>and make the Web Publishing Wizard only work with "their" selected choices or those
>hosting sites that would pay them to be included. Linux is looking better all the
>time for those of us who are serious.
>
>At www.ipswitch.com/downloads/index.html they have a limited edition FTP program
>which you can download. Third party software is where Microsoft wants you to go
>anyway, right?
>
>Or you can open up your "DOS window" and use FTP. This works well except that you
>have to learn the commands (which is something us old-timers have been doing for
>years). You also can only do one file at a time this way and you have to switch
>the mode to ASCII for html files and to binary for images and such.
>
>That's about all I can suggest since Microsoft has decided to operate like Apple
>and target their systems towards people who don't or can't do much with their computers.
> For us techies, they just create one nightmare after the other with every new release.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>You can also complain to Mircosoft about it but it may take a lot of voices before
>Microsofts ears are undeafened.
>
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