I maintain a page with 400x300 screen shots of charts on it. I like to update
it during the day. Many people in my chat room view the page. What is the
quickest way to update it?

At the moment, I have the page open as a Local File. Snagit saves the screen
capture .PNG automatically to the images file for the web site, locally. I
then drag the graphic from there into the web page. I then hit Shft+Command+U
and a dialog box pops up, asking if I want to save the file and upload
dependant files. I click yes. The uploading takes about 30 seconds for a 22kb
file. I have a cable connection. With FrontPage, this process took about 6
seconds but I was editing direct from the remote host. I know it is possible
to edit direct from the remote host using DW, but the process for saving that
file is not clear, particularly if the graphic is still on my local computer
(FP would upload it automatically then save the remote file).

Would it be better for me to use my screen capture program (Snagit) to FTP the
screen capture graphic directly to the images folder of my remote site, then
edit the remote page in DW, then just hit "save" and I'm done?

Just looking for the fastest way. Thanks!

"enthios" <enthios@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I maintain a page with 400x300 screen shots of charts on it. I like to
>update
> it during the day. Many people in my chat room view the page. What is
> the
> quickest way to update it?
>
> At the moment, I have the page open as a Local File. Snagit saves the
> screen
> capture .PNG automatically to the images file for the web site, locally.
> I
> then drag the graphic from there into the web page. I then hit
> Shft+Command+U
> and a dialog box pops up, asking if I want to save the file and upload
> dependant files. I click yes. The uploading takes about 30 seconds for a
> 22kb
> file. I have a cable connection. With FrontPage, this process took about
> 6
> seconds but I was editing direct from the remote host. I know it is
> possible
> to edit direct from the remote host using DW, but the process for saving
> that
> file is not clear, particularly if the graphic is still on my local
> computer
> (FP would upload it automatically then save the remote file).
>
> Would it be better for me to use my screen capture program (Snagit) to FTP
> the
> screen capture graphic directly to the images folder of my remote site,
> then
> edit the remote page in DW, then just hit "save" and I'm done?
>
> Just looking for the fastest way. Thanks!

The way I'd do it is use a FileSystemObject
http://www.brainjar.com/asp/dirlist/ or whatever similar object your back
end supports to just automatically compile whatever files are in a given
directory to a web page. Once you have that done, all you should need to do
is upload the image.

HTH;

Amy