My husband is a photographer and we used VSD to create our first website last year. It was great. We are completely overhauling the website this year. I have spent over a hundred hours on the new site and have suddenly seemed to max out on the number of pages we can have on the site at 500. The "Add Page" button is just grayed out and inactive. I still have about another 170 pages to go to complete it. Since I work full-time my main workday for the site is Saturdays and the Coffeecup offices are closed so I cannot get any kind of answer today. If anyone happens to see this and knows an answer, I'd love to hear from you. I'm frightened that VSD will only allow me to have 500 pages and all of our work will have to be trashed and we will have to find another software - which I really do not want to do since VSD is wonderful to work with.

photo guy's wife

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Hi.
It does top out at 500 sorry to say, but you can still add to it with alot of extra work, and it would have to be done everytime you make a change to the final 170 pages, which frankly would be a bother to some.
You could make a second website and name it the page you want to continue from, that page would normally be the homepage-after you make your pages up, you save it. then go to my documents and openthat website folder and rename the homepage which VSD so name index, change it to index1, then on the five hundredth page link to index1.html, then you would have upload using an external ftp so vsd doesnt over write the original site. see what i mean, alot of extra work. sorry if this doesn't make an easy solution.
but could make a visual example for you if needed.


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Bruce: Thanks for the info. I'm willing to do the extra work instead of starting all over with some other software. I like VSD and would like to stick with it. I think I understand everything about creating the new site in VSD and linking it together, but I guess my only other question is the info about using an external ftp. We use Go-Daddy to host our site, does that mean I have to purchase a second separate website on line and then the two reference each other? I'm not sure what an external ftp is - I'm not real tech-y and am sorry to say I need some clarification. I appreciate the information you are giving me. Even though it's a little more work, it's better than having a heart attack over getting this far and not being able to complete our site!

NOTE: This reply was actually posted by "Bruce" in response to "Photo Guy's" question. (Reply copied here to protect Photo Guy's email address.)

Hi,
no you wouldn't have to worry about godaddy at all, when you use VSD, it has a built in ftp that it uses to upload your site, well in this case you would need an external ftp, and coffeecup offers a free one, you can find it here.http://www.coffeecup.com/freestuff/ it will use the same settings you have in VSD under the settings tab ftp connection. you would use this to upload any changes in the second half of your website, it would just be a matter of another folder being on your server like a sub folder.In the www slot you would just add the name of the second half of site(new site)

give me a few and be back
UPDATE: you don't need to use an external ftp! ! !

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OK Bruce. I'm going to work on it and may have more questions. I'm pretty nervous because the one thing I never have really understood is the uploading of our site to get it online. I'm pretty scared I'll mess it up when it comes to the naming of everything. I appreciate your response very much. I hope it will save us having to shop for another software, learn how to use it and then start all over. I do have another question, I link all of our pictures in one category together. The first picture of the category is linked back to the category index, and the last picture is also linked back to the category index. If I have the index on the original site, I assume I have to work my links the way you explained in your original message, correct? I can tell this'll be a little hard on the old brain box, but hopefully I can get it to go okay.

Hi Photoguy,
here's what I think.
you would make a new website with the 170 pages you want. All you would really need to do is change the ftp settings, loacated under settings> ftp settings and where it says WWW folder there is a forward slash ( / ) just name the new site the same as first EXAMPLE: /stevenrussellsmithphotos

Then on the last page of the website with the 500 pages, link it like this, if it's a text link http://www.stevenrussellsmithphotos.com … index.html

hope I explained it correctly for you.

Great! I'm working on it right now. I think I understand all of your directions. If I have any other questions (probably next Saturday at this rate!) I'll post another question here. Thanks a million!!

hope it works for ya.Thanks!
worked for me as you can see here!
http://kellyinfo.com/kellyinfo/index.html
if you don't mind the long name-This just an example!!!!