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juality

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Oct 18, 2008
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Hi, I hope this is a basic question. I am a Mac newbie having come over from Windows. I have a website that was created with MS Frontpage and I used to change the content myself with that. I am shortly going to be redesigning my website anyway, but in the meantime as I no longer have Frontpage I have not been able to update the content, which is getting embarassing. Is there an easy way for me to edit my website pages on my Mac. I saw someone say that you can do it by choosing "go" in Finder and then "connect to server" I can do that and get in and the website pages are all there in the window. I hoped that I could just open them with "textedit" as one of the menu options, edit them and then somehow upload. However when I tried to save the edited html page in textedit, it only offered two formats to save in (RTDF I think, and web archive). I tried RTDf and it just said it could not save the page. Am I missing something, or if not, what is the easiest and quickest way for me to grab my pages off my hosted server, change them and put them back, as a stopgap until I do the proper redesign. I am obviously just a beginner, but I can usually figure most things out!
 
I use Cyber Duck for FTP, and it has an option to open the file locally, then save it back to the server. I open the Files with BBEdit, but you should be able to set it to most programs like TextEdit, or TextWrangler, Smultron, or whatever floats your boat.
 
Thanks, I did just stumble over another mention of cyberduck elsewhere. I shall give it a try
 
for any other complete amateur searching on this in future, just wanted to let you know I realised I need a WYSIWYG program since I dont know coding. I ended up grabbing KompoZer off the web. Yes, it's dead simple but within 5 minutes I had downloaded my existing website, changed the pages and published them. With about 5 buttons. So if anyone else needs to do anything that simple, like just changing text in a hurry, give it a try. :)
 
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