Currently using Free FTP and it has worked well enough until now. Recently I updated one of my pages by adding a button linking to my sitemap, but decided rather than upload through VSD (which takes forever being that it always wants to reupload my .flv video files) that I would simply upload the necessary files (button image, page html, etc.) using ftp. Everything seemed to work except that one of my pages of which I never even opened or made changes to suddenly wants to display the button image I created as a large background image behind the pages text wordreach.org/aboutwrm
Therefore, I opened up CC Free FTP, and began reuploading the IMG files in my site's files folder. Yahoo, my server, initiates the transfer, gets five to ten files uploaded then suddenly fails giving the 530 access denied for either wrong password and id, or too many concurrent connections.
1. I do wish that VSD would allow for page/file specification when uploading simple updates and not have to re-upload the entire site every time. And yes, I've heard the argument that it doesn't re-upload the entire site but only compares server files with site files and updates as needed--this isn't true, at least in my experience. Perhaps I'm missing something. For the sake of argument, maybe it does, but when it gets to my video .flv files, it's obvious that it takes just as long to check them as it would to simply just reupload them (50-70MB each); nearly an hour on 3Mbps DSL. Although I love the software, this is a downer when using VSD. Oddly, Yahoo's crappy SiteBuilder software allowed for this change-specifying feature for quick updates (you can choose to upload all files, or just those that had been changed). But of course it relies on tables and not images for its design as does VSD.
2. It would be much more efficient if when opening VSD and then making a change to a page or two if the software could somehow inform you of the IMG files that have been added or changed and now need uploading--especially if you want to do it through FTP. Kinda like the individual programs do i.e. CC Web Video, Flash, etc. This way, it wouldn't be necessary to upload the entire site each time through VSD to be sure that you didn't miss a newly added image file.
3. Then again, if I could get CC Free FTP to upload just my image file folder contents to my website server without the 530 error, I wouldn't be having this lengthy post.
4. Then again, all of this could be a result of user ignorance. I'm still a fan of CC VSD and CC's other programs and hope to become more knowledgable in using them. For now, I truly appreciate everyone's help on these forums.
Thanks in advance
