[thelist] site auditing

Rob Smith rob.smith at THERMON.com
Fri Feb 7 12:24:01 CST 2003


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is there a quick and clever
way to determine which bits can be thrown out?
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I might have a solution. I do this every once and a while using Dreamweaver.
Now, since you had mentioned:

a) unreferenced documents (pages with nothing linking to them)
b) unreferenced images (the image isn't called by any of the pages)

.. I think its fair to assume these pages are static.

Now for the deleting process. If you have Dreamweaver or Ultradev, after you
assign sites, it will build a site cache or site map. If you start deleting
stuff on your local copy, it will run through your copy (of the site) and
let you know which files have links to the objects, or not.

i.e.:
"Trying to delete a linked file"
7 files have links to the file you are deleting.
You can update them using the change Links Sitewide Dialog

/page/SolutionToTheGlobalEconomy.htm
/page/WhyWeAreHere.htm
/page/MeaningOfLife.htm
/page/WorldPeaceIsEasy.htm
<more...>

"Trying to delete a non-linked file"
Do you really want to delete the selected file(s)?

You will receive either dialog box when deleting files. The whole process
goes pretty fast. It also depends on how complex the navigation of your site
is and how many links to other pages there are.

HTH,

Rob.Smith




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