Multiple .htms Created On Publishing

[Ninepatch]

First - thank you Don and Bruce for sending me back to the drawing board with Irfanview for my images. What a difference! I was able to reduce some of them by 75%! I still haven't gotten the color tweaking down, but I've only played with it for an afternoon. Do either of you know if you can set finer increments for the sharpen function?

 

Anyhow, I published a .tlx file as a sub-directory today (it's nowhere near done, just piddling around.) It's a gallery of images that will link back to my main site. When CSB4 published the file, for each page it published the .htm file, plus 5 others with identical extensions for all 12 files - i.e.

 

apples.htm - that's the name I gave the page, then CSB4 added:

 

apples_l.htm

apples_r.htm

apples_t.htm

apples_b.htm

apples_m.htm

 

CSB4 did exactly this for every one of the 12 pages in the gallery.

 

Doesn't this bulk up my .tlx file? Can anyone tell me what these are? The gallery works just fine - well, as far as I've taken it that is.

 

Just curious. Again, thanks for the advice on Irfan! Thumbs Up

 

gallery page under construction

[Samrc]

You are publishing with FRAMES. Each frame has it's own htm page as it should!

 

No it does not bulk up the site or the tlx file. It is working properly. Actually, if you were publishing your MAP also you would have gotten a 6th htm page: apples_mf.htm If you only have one border, then you would only get 2 extra htm pages, one for the border, one for the middle.

 

You can not link to an individual frame page as Trellix and CSB produce code that forces the full page to load. Those programs also already include the <noframes> </noframes> tags that search engines need.

 

Take a look at this page for a full explanation of those multiple pages:

http://www.samisite.com/publish/framesorno.htm

Scroll down below the tests to see explanations and diagrams.

 

-Samantha

[TCH-Thomas]

Samantha,

On the page http://www.samisite.com/publish/framesorno.htm it says that CSB creates test_mf.htm but that its not shown.

 

I can not find any page ending with _mf either in cpanel/file manager or via ftp.

How come? Is this _mf always created?

[Samrc]

Thomas.... I actually gave the answer to that in my earlier post to Ninepatch.

 

Actually, if you were publishing your MAP also you would have gotten a 6th htm page: apples_mf.htm If you only have one border, then you would only get 2 extra htm pages, one for the border, one for the middle.

 

The extra pages only occur when you use FRAMES. But there is a second component: CSB publishes only the pages you need. If you are not using the Map or a bottom border, you will not get a page for them!

Examples:

• If you only use right borders in your design (lets say a photo gallery) then you would have these pages: gallery.htm, gallery_r.htm
  
• If you only use right borders in your design (lets say a photo gallery) AND publish your MAP also, then you would have these pages: gallery.htm, gallery_r.htm, gallery_mf.htm
  
• If you only use top and left borders in your home page design then you would have these pages: index.htm, index_l.htm, index_t.htm
  
• If you only use top and left borders in your home page design AND publish your MAP also, then you would have these pages: index.htm, index_l.htm, index_t.htm, index_mf.htm
  

Maybe I should add that to the web page for clarification.

 

As to the map page not being shown on my instruction page, that's because the image that I took from the CSB program concerning borders does not show a map frame. It is actually a separate issue, and is the ONLY one of the "extra pages" that you can link directly to.

Example: One of my subdirectories is published with my MAP turned ON so I could write a tutorial how to HIDE your site map from view. http://www.samisite.com/test-csb/id47.htm And here's the direct link to the map in the sample: http://www.samisite.com/test-csb/index_mf.htm

Publishing the map adds a lot of time, and when you add/delete a page, that map has to be updated for EVERY page in the tlx file because each one has a _mf.htm page that has to be updated.

 

Hope that helps.

 

-Samantha

[TCH-Thomas]

Thomas.... I actually gave the answer to that in my earlier post to Ninepatch.

 

Actually, if you were publishing your MAP also you would have gotten a 6th htm page: apples_mf.htm If you only have one border, then you would only get 2 extra htm pages, one for the border, one for the middle.

Whoops, Sorry samantha.

 

Thomas, wake up

[Ninepatch]

Thanks for all the extra info Sami - as always you are a never-ending fountain of wonderful knowledge!