The Author Site Project: Rapidweaver Not Working With
Tripod
08 January 2006 11:37 AM | Internet and Web
I have this project coming up: I need to advise a
writer (novelist type) friend of mine about starting
his very first web site, so I figured I would blog
about it as I go along. We have not discussed what
exactly he wants to do with this first site, but it
is good practice for him because he is going to
(does) need some sort of web presence from a
marketing standpoint even if he gets published by a
big publisher.
I want to encourage him to use this first site to learn. So that when he goes on to make his official author site later he will have learned a bit about web design. I think for this first site he wants to serialize a story (which can be a great marketing ploy.)
Now this writer nows zero about HTML, but he can make MSWord word processor do anything he wants it to so a good WYSIWYG web builder for Mac would be handy and he should have no trouble learning to use it. I publish this site with Rapidweaver, a client based CMS, which uses premade templates and is as easy to use as any full featured word processor and has the added advantage of providing consistent navigation. Better, it's only $35 - writers are very poor so that is important.
I wanted to see if Rapidweaver would work with a free web host so I signed up to Tripod which allows direct FTP access. Short answer is No: something stops the FTP upload process when Rapidweaver tried to upload CSS stuff. I'm not sure what all that is about. You can see the results. Rapidweaver has some sort of "smart ftp" setting, I might try to set that differently and see if that works.
A Blogger blog would work fine if this is a serialized story project, but then he would not be learning how to use Rapidweaver. Well I have time to think of something.
I want to encourage him to use this first site to learn. So that when he goes on to make his official author site later he will have learned a bit about web design. I think for this first site he wants to serialize a story (which can be a great marketing ploy.)
Now this writer nows zero about HTML, but he can make MSWord word processor do anything he wants it to so a good WYSIWYG web builder for Mac would be handy and he should have no trouble learning to use it. I publish this site with Rapidweaver, a client based CMS, which uses premade templates and is as easy to use as any full featured word processor and has the added advantage of providing consistent navigation. Better, it's only $35 - writers are very poor so that is important.
I wanted to see if Rapidweaver would work with a free web host so I signed up to Tripod which allows direct FTP access. Short answer is No: something stops the FTP upload process when Rapidweaver tried to upload CSS stuff. I'm not sure what all that is about. You can see the results. Rapidweaver has some sort of "smart ftp" setting, I might try to set that differently and see if that works.
A Blogger blog would work fine if this is a serialized story project, but then he would not be learning how to use Rapidweaver. Well I have time to think of something.
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