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New site builder & old additional pages?

Megatron — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:08:42 GMT

Hi Everyone, I designed my webpage (used as a photo portfolio) using Easysitewizard. As well as the entry homepage I have lots of additional pages for each project that I link to using a thumbnail from my home page. My question is this: I fancy redesigning the homepage using Easysitewizard Pro - but if I publish this new homepage will all my old additional pages be lost because they are designed with another sitebuilder or will they still exist. I don't want all my pages to disappear for the sake of a shiny new homepage! Thanks - hope someone can answer my question.

Re: New site builder & old additional pages?

Cantoris — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:28:52 GMT

To be safe, make a back-up up copy of your entire "public" folder first. The usual way is to use FTP to copy the whole folder from the web-server to a folder on your own computer. You can even make a further back-up on a CD if you wish.

If you use extras like databases or blogs, you will also need to consider how to back up those too.

I would expect the other files to remain in place when you create a new home page. Only pages with the same name would get over-written. That said, I don't use ESW, so don't know if it clears out the whole folder first.

If you do find that files have vanished, then you can copy the ones you want back from your computer in the reverse of the back-up process.

You can congratulate yourself on asking this question before you discovered any pages had gone missing. We usually only think about backing-up when it is too late.

Nigel.

Re: New site builder & old additional pages?

Nguitar — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:17:58 GMT

Publishing your site using EasySiteWizard will indeed overwrite your entire public folder, this being said what you can essentially do is create a hyperlink to your photogallery to one of the buttons in ESW. In order to retrive more information regarding this please use the Help documentation contained insite Easy Site Wizard.

Re: New site builder & old additional pages?

Megatron — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:44:48 GMT

Thanks for your help! I have backed it all up and interestingly when I published my new ESW Pro designed homepage the old additional pages still exist, which is great!