You can upload homepages consisting of only one file just as well with a third-party FTP-client like WS_FTP. I wanted something easier than that because I often make minor changes to several pages at once. And then forget which files I've changed. Anansi keeps a list of edited files and uses this when you fire up the Upload Manager. The listbox in the middle of the Upload Manager window contains this list. These file will be used for uploading. Be assured, you can of course add or remove files to this list.
As said elsewhere, subdirectories are no problem at all to the Upload Manager. It understands the directory structure of your site and if necessary the Upload Manager will ask your permission to create new directories. I've been using this feature since march 1996, this has worked flawlessly all this time.
If you're using subdirectories yourself, you will notice that the Upload Manager offers two views of your files nominated for uploading. The default view is all files together. But you can also view them by subdirectory. That might come in handy when you're uploading many files at once.
This version of Anansi doesn't support deleting files by FTP. Please install your favourite FTP-client at the Tools menu of Anansi for doing additional maintenance chores.
FTP settings for each project are to be found under File, Project Manager and then the FTP section.. If you're new to FTP, a short explanation follows.
In this example I will use my own settings. As FTP address I use the domainname of my provider. My username for FTP is the same as the one I use for logging in with my provider. The only thing I needed to know is that I had to use a special upload directory by the name of www. Ask your own provider about your special upload directory, if there is any.
Now, that's not that hard, is it?
If your restricted to some kind of DOS/ Windows server that only accepts short filenames, you'd better disable the automatic htm-to-html renaming. This can be done by opening the file anansi.ini with Notepad and adding the following line to the WebManager section:
HTMtoHTML=0
Read the helpfile on using the project settings | Troubleshooting