Disaster!
I'd Rather Crash My Car Than My Hard Drive
- If you have a hard drive crash and lose your template package, you can always restore it from a backup. If you always plan on backing things up "tomorrow", you run the risk of losing your data. So be sure to save your new template download file to a disk, external hard drive or flash drive, label it, and keep it in a safe place.
- If you keep your webs in My Documents/My Webs, you can backup the entire "My Webs" to CD or to an external hard drive if you have one. Flash drives are a great way to back up your information!
- If you have published your web to your server space, you can always get your web back by publishing it to your hard drive.
My page looked great before I added ...., but now, the margins look strange, there's text where there shouldn't be text and the sides just don't line up!
If you can't click on "undo" and get the mistake fixed, the easiest thing to do is pick out a page that looks the way it should (usually the newpage.htm), then do a "save as" and save it as the page that didn't look right, overwriting the current file.
Sometimes you'll get a message that you cannot overwrite an open file, but you look, and the file isn't even opened! Just save your replacement page with a 1 in the page name (ie. contact1.htm). Now delete your old page (contact.htm), then rename your new page by taking off the 1.
I keep having problems with my site...
- If you continually have problems with your live site, seriously consider switching web hosts. If your host's tech support team tells you that every little problem you are having is "normal" with Expression Web, definitely change hosts.
- While inexpensive web hosting is nice, sometimes it comes down to what means more to you: your time or your money. If you are spending more time fixing problems, it may be worth it to pay a bit more for hosting and spend more time doing what you enjoy doing rather than tracking down problems. End of sermon. <grin>