Publishing Front Page Problems

[rock007]

I have a very large website and have just begun having problems publishing my site to the web. Currently, I publish by highlighting the file or folder that I want to publish, right click on it, and then select the publish option. It used to work fine. Now, I am noticing that it will take an unusual amount of time to pubish and sometimes it just continues to publish in an endless loop, with out really publishing anything. If I click off of it and click on it again and try to publish, then sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. I am now beginning to get messages saying something to the effect that it doesn't recognize the user name or it cannot publish to port 21. Sometimes it says it has timed out. When calling my host, they say that when they created a dummy page and tried to publish it to my site, then it works and that the problem is not on their end. I have the most problems when I publish photo galleries. I use only tables for my photo galleries, inserting my pictures, and then right clicking on "Auto Thumbnails". Does anybody have an idea as to what the problem is?

[pageoneresults]

Are you optimizing those images? I mean, are you using a program like Fireworks or Photoshop to save them for the web and bring them down to their smallest file size (in bytes that is)?

[jimbeetle]

Actually, those _vti files are all over.

If use Windows Explorer and take a look in Inetpub > wwwroot > YourSiteName > AnyFolder > AnySubFolder

...you'll find them in each folder.

One question though: Are you publishing the entire site each time, or are you just publishing changed pages?

[rock007]

I use six points of Photoshop CS to process these pictures and save them all "To Web" as High Resolution (between 50-100 KB). I save the picture on the home page "To Web" as a Very High Resolution, which is still just a little over 100 KB. The attraction of my site is the pictures, so I put the best picturs up that I can.

[pageoneresults]

The attraction of my site is the pictures, so I put the best pictures up that I can.

Maximum resolution is going to be 72 dpi so if you are saving them any higher than that, those are wasted bytes.

[rock007]

To: pageoneresults

I was told by several webmasters that you can now publish up to 96. I have been using 96. So, are you saying that the appearance of a photo is the exact same at 72 as it is at 96?

[pageoneresults]

I'd test it out for yourself. I don't think you are going to see much difference between 72 dpi and 96 dpi. I could be wrong. My new TV PC is at 96 dpi and all of the images I've optimized at 72 dpi appear the same. And I have thousands of them too.

There's a fairly healthy size difference between the two in regards to bytes. It's your call. If you are paying for hosting based on storage and bandwidth, it could help in keeping your costs to a minimum.

[edited by: pageoneresults at 7:16 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2006]

[rock007]

I can live with 72 dpi.

Now if I can figure out a way to keep people from right clicking on the picture and printing it or saving it, I may be able to sell more pictures.

Thanks.

-Rocky