I finally published to my website for the first time a few days ago and I would like to tweak a few things. This is all very new, and very scary, for me. The thought of messing things up that I have spent so many hours on makes my hair stand on end! I have talked with my host several times about how to make changes and they told me that I needed to download the pages to my local computer, place them in the SSpinner program, edit, and send. I did finally get them saved but now can't get them into the program. I asked a number of times whether I could go back to my original work pages, make the changes and republish but was told that I needed to do it their way. Reading back thru editing sites here, it looks like I can actually do it as I hoped after all. All the posts that I found here that suggested this were old, however, and I don't want to mess things up. Have things changed since this information was placed in your forum (2004ish) or can I still do it this way? And also, please, will I need to rename the file and pages something different for the upload to the site to be allowed?

The process is just like you did originally, except that now you will probably need to upload only single pages -- only the page(s) you have changed. The 2004 instructions are still valid.

No need to rename anything unless you want to. A new publish will just overwrite the changed files.

I suggest keep a backup of your .ims project file. That way if you really screw up, you have a fallback position.

Thanks so much for your help. Your response makes things so clear for me.

One thing that I forgot to ask. When I came back to SSpinner workpages to attempt to make changes, the images were gone ("image not found"). As I was looking for answers to my problem before posting last night, I read about missing images and dealing with that and think that I understand that those images are still on
the page in the WSite and will be there when I upload the revised pages.? To revise any of those images, I should just redo the changes and then upload that file with changes and that image will be corrected?

You can (I think!) just republish pages without images, relying on the fact that the images are already on your site.

However, as it makes preview difficult, you are much better finding the original images. Chances are they are still on your computer -- you may have moved the project file, or shifted the images elsewhere. It should just be a matter of finding them and using "New Dir" to point SiteSpinner at them again.

Another method that involves recovering images from your website is described in this Backups tutorial.

Thank you again. Now let's see if I can do this!