I have switched from FrontPage to SiteSpinner because my hosting service will be eliminating FrontPage extensions by year end. I really like the simplicity of SiteSpinner but I noticed that my total disk space has just about doubled from when the same site was in FrontPage format. Can anyone advise on how to minimize that? Are there any files being created by SiteSpinner that I don't need to publish? Does the whole IMS file need to be in my directory? And, if I make changes to 5 or 6 different pages is there a way I can only publish those pages instead of the whole site again?

I knwo this seems li9ke a lot of questioning but I have not been able to find these answers doing a search of the forum. Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm assuming (something I should never do at my age) that you're talking about the storage requirements for the published project. Never having used FrontPage before, I can't comment on that. I can say that the site I'm working on has about 95 pages and comes in about 70MB counting the ims file, html files, image and geometry directories. That's with adding a few hundred other images that I use on my site.

When you publish with SS, you get what you need. You can't take any shortcuts, as far as I know. You can publish individual pages by going to the Pages tab when you publish your project and select Export current page.

Out of curiosity, what is the size of your SS site?

Kirk, I really appreciate your fast response as I am working on the site right now. The total size of my site at present (pretty complete) is close to 12 MB and that is with 14 pages and some heavy graphics. (www.holeyrockshop.com if you care to view it). My concern is that 12MB is about 5 more than when I had the site in FrontPage and that included all the junk that FP has to have in order to run. I'm also concerned about bandwidth but I can handle that separately.

Based on the size of your site and the number of graphics you have I started thinking. So I checked the file sizes and found the IMS, and other SiteSpinner specific files do not seem to be too big, but my image files are taking up 8 of my 12 MB's. Looks like I need to focus on reducing those image files.

Thanks also for your tip on publishing Current Page Only. I thought I checked everything on the tool bars but missed that one. Thanks again.

As an ex-FrontPager (for almost 10 years) I was really spoiled. Now I need to get back to html and CSS coding. But I must say I am very impressed with the ease of use that SiteSpinner provides. I am going to try it on all my other FrontPage sites (180 of them) so I should get to be pretty good at it by the time I'm done.

Thanks again for your help and your fast response.

If you didn't delete the old Frontpage stuff from your site, most of that will probably still be there, inflating your disk space figure.

If your image files are photos, make sure they are all .jpg rather than the default .png format. Much more efficient in terms of disk space. For example, you have three .pngs on your index page each of 30K -- changing those to .jpg should give you about 5K each.

There are settings in your Project Options to control the image format.

Brucee, thanks for that input. Yes, I did remove all the FrontPage stuff before re-doing the site in SiteSpinner. But your comment about the graphic extensions makes good sense. I'm not a PNG fan anyway so I will definitely change all to JPG and change the default also from PNG to JPG. Thank you.