Operation Manual

Previewing, Publishing, and Maintaining the Site 75
Maintaining your site
Once you’ve published your site to the World Wide Web (see the
previous topic), you’ll need to maintain the pages on your site by
updating content periodically: adding or changing text, images, and
links, then republishing one or more pages. Making the content changes
is easy enough, as all the originals are right there in your publication!
When you republish pages into the same folder, duplicate .HTML file
names are always overwritten. The Graphics tab of File/Web Site
Properties... lets you set whether or not to overwrite existing images
(i.e. use the same file names). Nevertheless, over time you may find
that unused files have proliferated, and you’ll need to do some
housekeeping.
Within local folders, one method is to sort your Explorer or My
Computer window contents by date, then use the “Modified” attribute
to determine which files to keep (i.e., the set most recently published).
For thorough cleanup, periodically publish the whole site to a new
folder and delete the old one.
To perform “housekeeping” tasks like file/folder deletion and renaming
on your published Web site, you can use the WebPlus Site
Maintenance feature. Choose Publish Site from the File menu and
select Maintain Web Site... from the submenu. The Specify Account
Details dialog appears. Select the FTP account or enter the details (as
when publishing the site), and click OK. Once the connection is made,
the Maintain Web Site window appears.