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How to monitor upload progress when putting entire site

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March 29, 2022
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Is there any way in Dreamweaver to see how far along the program is when uploading the entire site?

I have a site with 4,900+pages, plus ancillary files and it TAKES FOREVER! It would be nice to be able to see how far along the upload process is, either as a percentage or as x files of y total.

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osgood_

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To be honest what you have there maybe a 5000 page 'static' website but once you contain all your information in a database you'll probably have no more than 10 pages. Now that's managable and easily scalable.

The real work is inputting all of the current information into a database BUT you only have a few lines of data for each categrory listing. It probably would not take any longer than a month (if that) to pull that information from the current website and insert it into a database.

Personally I most probably would NOT use WP myself, although it may be a good option for those with less code knowledge and less time, less money, if both are a critical factor.

One thing for sure IF you want to be taken seriously the website is in dire need of redeveloping to bring it up to the standards expected by vistors today.

Looking at the current website I can clearly see a simple workflow structure which would improve the experience for the users and the person/s charged with looking after the website. There's no really complex stuff needed here to get it to where it needs to be. The website is just another 'product' website. Think of your category listings as products, each linked to the same details web page, where the information, according to which link is clicked on, is returned from the database.

B i r n o u

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Personally I most probably would NOT use WP myself, although it may be a good option for those with less code knowledge and less time, less money, if both are a critical factor.
By @osgood_

I follow your idea, and personnaly I wont use WP too... except if one of the dictionnary plugin fully satisfy the aim and needs of @kellymonaghan .

that's why, in all my comments, I was saying 'not only' when talking about WP. Read especially my very first comment, on the top of this thread.

now for define if WP fits or not the purpose, instead of creating once again hot water, from google

In the plugin side

and in the template side

https://themeforest.net/category/wordpress?term=glossary

anyway push google further

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kellymonaghanAuthor

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Thanks, everybody, for the input. I'm gonna bite the bullet and switch to WP, although I'll be doing it with some trepidation. Wish me luck! 🙂

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Good luck!!! 😇

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I have a site with 4,900+pages, plus ancillary files and it TAKES FOREVER!

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<facetopalm> OMG!!! that's not a website, it's a 10,000 pound gorilla! </facetopalm>

Switch to WordPress ASAP.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

B i r n o u

Legend

this is my provocative side talking, but in a sincere and real way...

I administer different websites that each have more than 10 000 pages, all written in pure HTML, without any server code, without any database, and that work perfectly... in terms of usability, maintenance, performance and accessibility

on top of that, ice on the cake, they are all built using various DWT...

if you insist I'll tell you why... but for now, please, let me feel and enjoy all your reviews 😉

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I administer different websites that each have more than 10 000 pages, all written in pure HTML... 😉

By @B i r n o u

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I think you said many times that Dreamweaver is unstable with large number of site files, n'est-ce pas?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

Move that beast to a database driven content management system, like WordPress, and never look back.

DW was never meant to manage anything close to that size. In the early days, Macromedia gave developers the tools they needed to run a database driven site with DW. Something like a 4900+ page site would be done with 3 actual pages, a database of content, and a few image uploads. As time went by, Adobe bought the program from Macromedia and lost the plot pretty quickly, removing database options and forcing users to buy extensions or do things manually.

With the program dying on the vine as it is (only OS and security patches going forward), there's no better time to move to a system better designed to handle your 8000 lb gorilla of a site.

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kellymonaghanAuthor

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Thanks for this, Jon! I have a guy who working on a new WP site for me bugging me to move the 4,900 page site travel-industry-dictionary.com to WP. But I really like the look and feel of the site as it is. Can that look be maintained in WP.
The news that DW is "dying on the vine" is a warning sign, however. Thanks again.

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

Yes and No.

"Yes" because you "could" keep the identical look and feel. Though WP has an amazing number of design Themes to modernize your site.

...and "No" because you really shouldn't keep that same look and feel. It's not responsive to your viewers at all.

The internet is a lot more than the 640x480 or 1024x768 desktop monitors we got to choose from 15-20 years ago. Mobile technology has taken over as far as accessing the internet goes (it was at 63% of all searches according to Google in 2019) and your site, as it stands, is clean and easy to read on a desktop but is just about useless on a mobile device.

When I visit it on my phone, it looks like a large postage stamp that I have to constantly zoom in and out of to navigate. That's going to kill your mobile viewership. The very, very nice thing is a giant number of existing WP themes are totally responsive.

They'll look good out of the box on phones and tablets, through all the various desktops, to 4k big screen TVs, to workout equipment and refrigerator doors (the internet is just weird compared to about 12 yers ago).

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L e n a

Community Expert

Take your time, and place an hourglass in parallel. This is a request that has been made over and over again during update cycles, but has never been implemented.

From now on DW being in minimum maintenance, this will not be taken into account.

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