Experimenting
I’m going to try some experimenting here. I want to see just what “managing pages” can do. My thought is that perhaps I can begin migrating some stuff over here, from what has been my main web site.
Right off the bat, I see I’m having trouble with animated gif’s not being animated. Hummm 
I’ll have to see what I can do, if anything, about that!
So, you might ask, “Why move your main web site stuff over here?” That’s a decent question, especially since I really LIKE the look my main site has provided. At one time, I had run into a tad-o-trouble with updates.
I have authored my web site in FrontPage since 2005, and hosted it with Comcast. In the begining, things were working great. But a couple of years into it, I began to have some trouble with updating the content. I had intermittent trouble of various types in the update/upload process. Eventually, I found someone in Comcast’s tech support department who knew something about FrontPage and we tried some work-arounds. Those have been working sufficiently.
So what was the issue? First of all… support for Microsoft FrontPage will eventually go away, fairly soon. That is, eventually I probably won’t be able to author in FrontPage anymore because the hosting sites will no longer offer the extensions needed to make it work. That’s eventually.
In the meantime, it seems that Comcast had been in the process of upgrading their features over the past year or so. Lots of neat new features, but apparently not many people call in with web authoring issues, so my issues were not common & they don’t have many techs… almost none, who understand web-authoring issues, much less ones specific to FrontPage!! My most recent issue was anytime I made changes in FrontPage, I could not get the updates to upload into the Comcast servers. The “Publish Web” command in FrontPage, that had worked fine for a years, no longer worked. And some of the time, I could get around the error message, and seem to upload the changes but then the index page wouldn’t update, but the attached pages would update. Weird!! But that left my main “greetings” page looking like I had neglected it for a a very long time!! My initial call to tech support yeilded no answers, but my issue was “escalated” to further review. And Manuel (in Arizona) called me back the next day! Like I said, the work-arounds are ok.
I have since had similar issues. Seems they are always “upgrading” and when they do that, something else ceases to operate correctly in FrontPage for me. So I probably will keep a presence there for a little while, and just migrate some content over. That’s the story behind why the experiment. That and… I’m just a curious kinda gal!
CAPTAIN’S LOG, UPDATE: Ok, so back when I first started all this (authoring in FrontPage in 2005 and WordPress in 2008) , I was strictly a PC user. I’ve since migrated myself over to… “the dark side,” to using a Mac… and I love it!!! I will eventually migrate most of my main webpage stuff over to authoring in iWeb on the Mac and hosting it someplace… probably other than Comcast. They just don’t have enough techs familiar with web-authoring issues for when they do arise. I haven’t yet decided on where to host it.
I’ll decide that soon, as I am in the process of launching a new website for my freelance business.
Thanks SO much for visiting and reading!!
~Paula
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