RE: FN-FORUM Site cleanup hell...

date posted 16th January 2002 15:35

Or the Site explorer in Dreamweaver

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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Site cleanup hell...



Hi Charlie/all,

>Hey peeps,
>
>Charlie Owen here, once a freelancer who subscribed to this fair list, now
>a 9-5 permanent drone. I know I don't really belong here anymore, but you
>guys are just so friendly and lovely... :-P

It comes to us all in the end. The "friendly and lovely" bit, not the
permie status, obviously ;)

>I'm now the web editor for a horribly large sprawling static site (20,000+
>files) that has never been tidied up and has never had redundant files
>removed in all of it's history.

At least you can't make it any worse!

>We're now in the process of having a content management system installed,
>so we need to remove all redundant files, ready for the site's migration
>to XML. So I was wondering if anybody knew of any tools that will scan a
>local version of a site, and list any files that are not linked to by any
>other files on the site, i.e. everything that is redundant.
>
>Any suggestions?

Doesn't FrontPage present a graphic representation of all the files in a
site with lines depicting hyperlinks?

If so, then you could view all the "island" files without any links to any
other files.

>charlie.
>--
>Web Editor, National Maritime Museum
>Greenwich, London

BFN,

Nigel

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