[dba-Tech] Website Structure Question

[Tina Norris Fields]

You're right - FrontPage is pretty much long gone.  I did use it, 
though, for several years.

TNF

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 4/27/2015 12:34 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> The Tina system should take precedence. :-)
>
> There are a dozen editors that are better than FrontPage...I don't even think they make FP any more.(?). If we live long enough, there is always code out there that should be fixed or deleted as it can be embarrassing. ;-)
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 8:19:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Website Structure Question
>
> Thanks, Jim and Rocky,
>
> I think I have some of it figured out.  A couple of months ago, my
> provider changed servers.  The new root directory for the website was
> named httpdocs, and everything got copied into that new directory,
> including a copy of httpdocs and its contents.  I've done a little
> cleaning up and things are looking much tidier.  I will be watching to
> see if redundancy creeps in again.  I remember that there was quite a
> bit of built-in redundancy in sites built with Microsoft FrontPage, so,
> I was sort of trained to expect it, but, this was way too much. Part of
> the difficulty stemmed from the fact that VSD wanted to use a certain
> naming structure and Tina wanted to use another.  Both got used, then
> multiplied by the new root directory for the website files.  Whew!
>
> Best,
> TNF
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
> 231-322-2787
>
> On 4/25/2015 3:25 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Hi Tina:
>>
>> I have seen this happen...even done it myself on occasions. Generally, I would think it is an error as the code is expecting to be starting from the root and is not checking its current start position.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 7:50:35 AM
>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Website Structure Question
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've noticed on more than one occasion that a website has duplicate
>> folders, something like this:
>>
>> //root > httpdocs > files > download
>>
>> and
>>
>> //root > httpdocs > httpdocs > files > download
>>
>> These appear to get created by the application being used to craft the
>> website.  Most recently, I'm seeing this in a site crafted with
>> CoffeeCup's Visual Site Designer.  When I want to update just one page,
>> it is possible to fail to get the updated page into the correct folder.
>> I'm not happy with this, and I don't recall deliberately adding
>> redundant folders.  Anybody else have experience with this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> TNF
>>
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