At 03:29 PM 7/8/98 -0700, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>
>George, my point is that if an FP user knows nothing about FTP, and goes
>through FP to 'publish' their web pages, I think they need the FP
>extensions on the server for it to work.
Nope. Extensions are only mandatory for certain server-side 'bots. When you
press "Publish", a dialogue box pops up to ask which server. It then probes
the server to determine if FP Extensions are available. If not, it drops to
an FTP method using the "Web Publishing Wizard", querying for user/pass and
destination dir.
The advantage of Publishing vs generic FTP is that FP will automatically
convert any proprietary doodads (special bots, presentation themes, etc)
into generic HTML and images. It also memorizes the user/pass/dir settings
for future sessions. Fire and forget. I am by no means a FP fan; it makes
butt-ugly code and the expanded themes tend to bloat the site. But the
built-in FTP is not too bad, and the process is pretty newbie-friendly.
--bill
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