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re: Publishing a website with Windows XP Home and Professional editions?'
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 9:28 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joel
(1 messages posted)
This is useful advice, but this requires you to know exactly which individual files
to copy via ftp. The nice thing about Web Publishing Wizard in Windows 98 was that
it knew about Front Page conventions and figured out all the necessary files to be
copied along with the .htm file or folder you specified.
Is this functionality gone with the XP version?
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 2:06 pm, Jason Justian wrote:
>The file tranfer features of Windows XP Home Edition are actually much better than
>the Windows 98 Web Publishing Wizard. You can create a folder that will open ANY
>web site (to which you have FTP access) and allow you to transfer files using usual
>Windows drag and drop.
>
>You do this in "My Network Places," from the Start menu. Open My Network Places,
>then click "Add a Network Place." Then follow the instructions. You'll be entering
>in a URL to your site, a user ID, and a password, all of which should be available
>from your ISP. Note that if your site is http://www.mysite.com, you'll want to
enter
>ftp://www.mysite.com in the address field. Once you're done, there will be a new
>folder in My Network Places. If you double-click this folder, Windows XP will log
>in and show the files in the window. You may then drag files and folders into and
>out of this window at will. You can even set permissions of files on Unix hosts
>(right-click the file, then go to Properties...)!
>
>I still use third-party FTP software (WS_FTP) most of the time for my clients, because
>it opens windows showing both remote and local files. But for just quickly dropping
>a file into one of my own sites, this method is very nice.
>
>I do have two complaints about this otherwise very convenient feature. First, if
>you double click a file (say, a .html file) Windows XP treats it as a local file.
> Second, if you put your web folder on the desktop, you can't drag it back to My
>Network Places. Very strange.
>
>For more info, go to Windows XP Help (from the Start menu). Type in "FTP" as your
>search keyword.
>
>HTH,
>Jason
>
>
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