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created site in coffeecup, want to edit and ftp from DW

Feb 24, 2007 7:05AM PST

Hello everyone,

I hope you can help. Although I've been designing and maintaining websites since 1999, I feel like I'm lacking a lot of information.

I recently revamped a website of mine in CoffeeCup, which I purchased. I did not purchase the FTP program though (just used the trial version to get it up). Then I realized I had access to Dreamweaver at work so I would like to be able to edit and ftp from Dreamweaver from now on.

Is this possible? I've been having trouble figuring out how to do this. Can anyone help?

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Just asking.
Feb 24, 2007 7:11AM PST

Why must one ftp from within said application? For years I would ftp with ... ftp.exe then edit with some web page editor. Just wondering why it must be done in the web editor.

Bob

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The only thing I can think of
Feb 24, 2007 7:49AM PST

Do you have the site locally on your computer, or do you plan on editing it online on the server directly?

Have you tried to download the website, opening it up in Dreamweaver, then re-upload everything (due to time stamps etc), and finally make any changes to the website locally where you then just upload the changes from there on after?

~Sovereign

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thanks!
Feb 24, 2007 9:44AM PST

so i hadn't tried downloading the site and my messing around had misplaced my homepage.

BUT thanks to your suggestion I decided to go that route and have successfully updated my site (after almost 4 hours of trial and error)!! thanks!

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Great!
Feb 24, 2007 1:35PM PST

Yeah, trial and error, been there, done that! It's the best way to learn Happy

Come back if you need more help!

~Sovereign