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Noteworthy Issues

• After making edits to a web page, clicking the Publish icon will cause Composer to update the web page without bringing up the Publish dialog (works softa like a "save to remote" feature).
• If you save the edited file to your local computer before publishing the change will cause the Publish dialog to appear.
• If you save a file you edit after publishing, Composer seems to "forget" the local location of the file -- which will prompt you for the location on your computer to save the file. This is noteworthy because it might confuse some people that try to edit something they just published.
• If a user has never setup any publishing sites before, the first time the user attempt to publish, the Settings tab will appear. This tab must be filled out completely before being able to publish.
• Mozilla allows you to keep track of several Publishing Sites by using the Publishing Site Settings dialog -- accessible from the Edit menu, then Publishing Site Settings menu item.

Noteworthy Issues related to ChurchServe accounts

• Free and Almost Free Website accounts usually will not use the subdirectory location field in the Publishing tab unless the page belongs in a specific subfolder. The base or root directory of the Free and Almost Free Website account is the default directory the FTP client will log into -- this is not the case for all other hosting services by ChurchServe.
• All other (paid) services provided by ChurchServe make the base or root website content directory under the /website subdirectory. Failure to specify this as your subdirectory while publishing will cause your files to go to the wrong location (and not show up on the web). Other programs that use FTP will have this same behaviour.

Observations about Mozilla Composer

• Composer is a great deal considering it is free.
• The publishing feature of Composer is fine for uploading web pages one at a time but not a good solution for managing a large website. Even publishing a several page website requires one to open each page and publish it accordingly.
• Along the lines of the previous note, Composer is better suited for the creation and editing of individual web pages and then one should consider using a full fledged FTP client to upload all the website content.

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