FP2002 - Very slow

[Dublevay]

My website, http://www.essexchurches.co.uk is continually growing, and, as a
consequence, is becoming very slow when creating local pages, or when
uploading to the server.

For instance, I have some default pages in my root folder, which are:

- region.htm
- churchthumbs.htm
- churchpic1.htm

To post a new church, I always copy these, and then paste them into the
relevant HTML/A-F, HTML/G-M, as appropriate. It is now taking about a minute
for this simple paste procedure to take place. Is there any sort of 'tidy
up' operation that FP can do to speed up this process?

Also, is there any way to speed up the publishing process? Or is that
becoming slow as a consequence of my having the search engine present?

Thanks

John

 

[Bill Schroyer]

There's a lot going on when you publish with FrontPage
particularly when you have a search, table of contents,
and other FrontPage components. I publish a few dozen
websites that use these components several times a week
and what I've found helpful is to eliminate the TOC page,
replace the search in most cases with other ASP
applications (there are plenty of these to choose from)
and to set most pages and subwebs to "Do Not Puplish".
This speeds things up a great deal. The other thing to
remember is that not all Hosting providers are created
equal. Hosting is quit inexpensive, so it pays to test the
waters elswhere.

Bill Schroyer
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.frontpagewiz.com

 

[Dublevay]

what I've found helpful is to eliminate the TOC page,

replace the search in most cases with other ASP
applications (there are plenty of these to choose from)
and to set most pages and subwebs to "Do Not Puplish".
This speeds things up a great deal.

Thanks Bill. I don't quite understand what you mean by setting most pages to
"Do Not Publish" though. I thought that only my changed pages were being
published?

John

 

[Andrew Murray]

if you choose that feature, yes. but you can right click on the local computer
files list and an option 'do not publish' will make the file as such.
(permanently, that is, until you change it back)....so you can mark files you
don't want published at all as "Do Not Publish" even when you do a "Full
Publish".

The "Changed Files Only" is not the same thing, because you might have a file
that you're working on, and have changed since last published, but are still
working on and don't want uploaded at a certain time; so you mark it "Do Not
Publish" so it wont be uploaded with your next publish to the server, until you
mark it as publish again.