Working at home and at work

[Guest]

What would be the best way to edit my website from 2 different machines? I
was caring around a jump drive and keeping a copy on it, but I forget to
bring it sometimes to work.

 

[Rick Budde]

If you have your site published to a host that has Front
Pages Extensions active:

Step 1: Reverse publish the site from the host to the PC
on which you will be doing your development work.

Step 2: When you are done with the development, publish
as normal from your PC to your host.

These steps ensure that you will always be working on the
most recent version of your web site and not run the risk
of overwriting previous work.

 

[Guest]

Rick,

Thanks. But then you could end up shuttling a lot of data back and forth all
the time (and you would have to remember to do so; if ufoa is prone to
forgetting to pick up the jump drive then he is as likely to forget to
reverse publish first, non? ;-)

Sounds to me as if ufoa's original plan to carry the files with him at all
times on a jump drive would be preferable? Am I being naive?

You see, I would like to do the same as ufoa: majority of the time web dev
work will be done on my "clunky" (work) laptop, but occasionally I would like
to work from my "little" (travel) laptop.

Stefan

If you have your site published to a host that has Front
Pages Extensions active:

Step 1: Reverse publish the site from the host to the PC
on which you will be doing your development work.

Step 2: When you are done with the development, publish
as normal from your PC to your host.

These steps ensure that you will always be working on the
most recent version of your web site and not run the risk
of overwriting previous work.

 

[Guest]

I tried xdrive, but it is painfully slow. So I guess the jump drive is the
ticket. Remember drive, remember drive.........

Rick,

Thanks. But then you could end up shuttling a lot of data back and forth all
the time (and you would have to remember to do so; if ufoa is prone to
forgetting to pick up the jump drive then he is as likely to forget to
reverse publish first, non? ;-)

Sounds to me as if ufoa's original plan to carry the files with him at all
times on a jump drive would be preferable? Am I being naive?

You see, I would like to do the same as ufoa: majority of the time web dev
work will be done on my "clunky" (work) laptop, but occasionally I would like
to work from my "little" (travel) laptop.

Stefan