FrontPage with Contribute

[jplanet]

I am in dire need of help! The company I work for recently had a
website done. The editing and upkeep of this site has been dumped on
my lap. Contribute was installed on my pc. That was all the education
I got! Contribute has a very minimal tutorial - not much help at all.
Our site was created in FrontPage. Would I be better off to just get
FrontPage to do editing or stick with Contribute. I have found so many
issues in Contribute - - I will make changes to a page and it looks
great in edit mode - then when I publish it the spacing is all off. I
have a navigation bar that is actually a table with 1 column. Each
doctor is a separate row in that column. But to make things more
complicated, with that row is a another table that has 2 columns and 1
row. This preserves a nice left indent if the name wraps to the next
line. Now I am trying to add a name to the list and I have it in a
real mess!! I've just about had the last straw and want to just walk
out the door and never come back!!!! Please save me!!!

 

[-]

If you know the site was created in Frontpage, why take a chance of more
hassles by using something else that might work with the files differently?
Get your company to buy a copy of Frontpage. Use the arument that they paid
a lot to get the website created so they should invest a relatively small
amount in buying Frontpage to keep their previous investment working well.
If you need help maintaining or future work done to your website by your web
designer, they will be much more willing to help if you have been using the
same software package.

None of this addresses the fact you need to get a good manual in order to
start learning whatever web software package you decided to use. If you go
with Frontpage, no printed manual comes with it so you will need to buy one
of the better books available (search the archives of this group for
recommendations).

Doug

 

[jplanet]

Oh yeah - - see that's where the story really gets good. The company
who designed our website in FrontPage recommended Contribute to us for
web editing. The guy I go to with problems doesn't even know
contribute! I am so frustrated with this whole mess if I knew which
server was our web server I swear I'd dismantle it!!!! PERMANENTLY!!!
I'm thinking about just buying FrontPage myself its not worth all this
frustration!

 

[-]

Yeah, but the bean counters saved $25 by purchasing Contribute! Seriously
though, it may be a great program although it sure doesn't seem to meet the
needs of your specific working style. I know the Adobe Online store has a
30 day return. Most retailers have some sort of return policy. Can you
return your copy? I would investigate this. You could then get your
company to pony up the extra $25 to buy it from Amazon ($175). If the
retailer balks at a return, see if you can get them to give you credit
against a FrontPage purchase if that is what you think you want. Again,
you have to keep in mind that you will have to learn the software and
FrontPage may not be as trouble free as you hope.

 

[jplanet]

Actually I made some real progress with our marketing director today!
Its far to late to return Contribute. We can probably get FrontPage
for a little cheaper through CDW which is where we buy most of out
stuff.

And I do know there will still be a learning curve with FrontPage but I
just keep being told "You can't do that in Contribute"

Now do you know a good program that will report the hits made on our
site per day and the paths taken through our site and that will not
count internal hits?

 

[Trevor L.]

Now do you know a good program that will report the hits made on our
site per day and the paths taken through our site and that will not
count internal hits?

I haven't followed this thread, but I noticed your last query

I use gostats.com http://gostats.com/

It has lots of information on hits, sessions, etc.

I have tried to get it to exclude my own site from the counts, but it
excludes by IP address, and I think mine changes every time I reset my
router (if not every time I reconnect !!)

Anyway, you may want to try it.

I have no connection with gostats.com

 

[jplanet]

Thanks! This is for my work website. So that would include a couple
hundred employees. If there are any other suggestions I'd love to hear
them!

 

[jplanet]

Thanks! This is for my work website. So that would include a couple
hundred employees. If there are any other suggestions I'd love to hear
them!

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

I don't think gostats will work on an intranet.


| jplanet wrote:
| > Now do you know a good program that will report the hits made on our
| > site per day and the paths taken through our site and that will not
| > count internal hits?
|
| I haven't followed this thread, but I noticed your last query
|
| I use gostats.com http://gostats.com/
|
| It has lots of information on hits, sessions, etc.
|
| I have tried to get it to exclude my own site from the counts, but it
| excludes by IP address, and I think mine changes every time I reset my
| router (if not every time I reconnect !!)
|
| Anyway, you may want to try it.
|
| I have no connection with gostats.com
| --
| Cheers,
| Trevor L.
| Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au
|
|

 

[Trevor L.]

I don't think gostats will work on an intranet.

Yes, that would seem to make sense.

Although when I open my local web (on my PC's hard disk), gostats is
invoked.

Opening it a second time updates the Total Hits and Hits Today by 1.

As I say, I can't seem to exclude my own IP from the counts as the router
changes it (how often and when, I don't know).

So, maybe it will work on an intranet ??