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StudentDonald
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 Posted - 06 May 2012 : 01:18:14
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Hello Davide(and others) I started using FrontPage 10 years ago and upgraded to Exp Web when it was released. Seemed to be too much and was not what MS claimed it to be. After a couple years of casual research I thought sitespinner was the answer, purchased it about 2 yrs ago and finally taking a look. Not so sure about my choice now. So I've been looking for 4-5 years and still looking with DHE & SS at the top of the list. The last few months I have done many hours of research checking reviews, complaints and forums. Also looked at many tutorials and user guides that I could find or download. And yes, I have downloaded the DHE 6.5 trial version and will take a look at it the next couple of weeks. I will post a general review about web softwares and update my profile ASAP (see comment below).
(Anyone else used/using or trialed other programs?. Please comment.)
(The person who posted the DHE comments(their choice, by far) vs SS review......Thank You!
(It has been pulled and nowhere to be seen.)
Can DHE handle large web sites? Yes it can, no problem.  Thanks Edigital
(What am I going to do?)
Build a couple of sites with mostly text. Pictures/images. Possibly some flash and/or rolling-moving panels/banners. Music?
Comment below:
Still behind the  and running around like the headless chicken. Not sure if OT is on this next week and my mother in law with us and requiring a lot of attention.  . Will continue to work on this when I can. I have some revisions to do in a few simple FrontPage sites before I really get started with DHE vs SS.
Thanks a lot!
Most kind regards.
Donald
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Edigital
Master
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Posted - 10 May 2012 : 12:32:26
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Hello StudentDonald
I think DHE is the best choice, no crashes, updated with hmtl5, and many add-ons. DHE can manage big projects and sites. I'm a ASP/PHP developer, electrical engineer, no problem with web standars, etc.
What kind of pages do you want to manage? PHP, ASP, HMTL, HTML5? flash?
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StudentDonald
Practical
USA
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Posted - 02 Jun 2012 : 17:29:23
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See new topic on Large Websites / Page limits in DHE - Others.
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Originally posted by Edigital
Hello StudentDonald
I think DHE is the best choice, no crashes, updated with hmtl5, and many add-ons. DHE can manage big projects and sites. I'm a ASP/PHP developer, electrical engineer, no problem with web standars, etc.
What kind of pages do you want to manage? PHP, ASP, HMTL, HTML5? flash?
Still would like to know the max and practical number of pages per project and or folder in DHE. SiteSpinner is 998 pages and 2500 images (per folder) no secret here, with a catch. This can be split up into sub-folders with the same max and linked together for publishing. The DHE project task pane may be the tool for this kind of stuff. Or maybe not as only one project file/folder can be loaded at a time?
Many programs also load the entire website into memory as required for automatic links, master pages and globel setting. So a too large of site appears to stop on paging the HD or crashes pending your computers' resources of course.
Uploading and/or updating a large site to your host may become a problem also.(Do you have to load the whole site or can you do just the changes?) And how long will a large site take to open on the net? All of us has clicked on something and waited for the load to be done and canceled because it's just not worth the wait.
 (More research at the expense of being nagged by the wife and MIL, right next to the )
Most programs will start to slow down with 10-50 pages pending content and memory available. Some are honest enough to say that if you have a 200 page website to look else where or you'll have split up your site in sections. SiteSpinner recommends keeping the page number way below the max amount(100-500 pending content) for management purposes and memory usage. They all recommend multiple projects and/or sub-sites, linking them together and having to upload the directies to your host server. Some suggest I-frames, others with links. MS Exp Web, "500 pages are ok, 800 pages brings it to a standstill." 
A lot of things to be considered and at some point do you start an archive, use sub-sites or a database if your host allows.
Please comment on large website management and best practices using DHE. (Please, again.)
Thank You Very Much!
Donald
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s.dav
Site Admin
Italy
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Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 09:13:29
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Donald,
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Still would like to know the max and practical number of pages per project and or folder in DHE. SiteSpinner is 998 pages and 2500
It is a bit difficult to give you the max number of pratical usable pages for a DHE project; The program doesn't load pages in memory so it shouldn't be a problem if you have many of them
Dynamic HTML Editor can manage only one project at a time but the project can have subprojects and subfolders as many as you want
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Uploading and/or updating a large site to your host may become a problem also.(Do you have to load the whole site or can you do just the changes?)
Dynamic HTML Editor will publish only changes to your host and overwrite only files that are changed when exporting
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And how long will a large site take to open on the net? All of us has clicked on something and waited for the load to be done and canceled because it's just not worth the wait.
Dynamic HTML Editor works and load the project on your PC, in the net you'll see only the generated code.
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Most programs will start to slow down with 10-50 pages pending content and memory available. Some are honest enough to say that if you have a 200 page website to look else where or you'll have split up your site in sections. SiteSpinner recommends keeping the page number way below the max amount(100-500 pending content) for management purposes and memory usage. They all recommend multiple projects and/or sub-sites, linking them together and having to upload the directies to your host server. Some suggest I-frames, others with links. MS Exp Web, "500 pages are ok, 800 pages brings it to a standstill."
IMO there are no problems with the number of pages in the project; actually the program has problems with the number of pages loaded in memory into different tabs (this is a limit of Visual Basic 6)
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