Posts on ‘May 20th, 2008’

I’m currently in the process of overhauling my oldest affiliate content site. This has been a very tedious process to say the least. The site was originally setup to use SSI (server side includes) since at the time, it was suggested to me to go that route in order to include things like a common sidebar navigation and footer includes. The concept is definitely sound, but the method to implement it is kind of outdated.

One aspect of Website development that seems to trip up a lot of new IMers is the transferring of files up to their Web server. This is done using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Perhaps some of the confusion stems from the numerous varieties FTP clients that are available. Many of the WYSIWYG HTML editors have an FTP client built-in. However, I’ve found some of them awkward to use, especially the one in Nvu.

The other way to transfer files is to use the File Manager feature available in cPanel if your Web host supports it. However, after a few go rounds with this method, you’ll be desperately searching for something much less frustrating for transferring files.