Folder and file duplication

[DaveGreen01]

Not sure what I am doing wrong, need some advice please.
I have a site on my .Mac account that I am currently testing with Contribute.
I create a draft of page one. Page one is a simple navigation page, using
images as a link to page two which has again the same image in the first column
of a two column table and the second column has a description of that image.
So, I put the required image onto page one by going to image, image from
website (easy).

I then create a draft from the second page, but I leave the first draft of
page one still active so that I can flick between the two pages. Like page one
I import the image into the first column of page two and put in a description
of the image. I insert a section anchor next to the image on page two.

I then go back to page one and create a link from the image on page one to the
anchor on page two.
I then publish both pages to the .Mac account.

The problem I encounter is that when I do it this way Contribute creates a
duplicate directory structure at the root level on my . Mac account of page one
and page two htmls and it does not replace the original html files in the
correct folder.
If however I changed each page individually and publish them one at a time
ratther than having both open at once the original folder and file structure is
not duplicated and the changes are published correctly back to the .Mac account.

I hope I have made sense.

cheers,

Dave

[redbarron]

I think I see what you're doing, although why the directory structure is being
duplicated is strange. The easier way to accomplish what you're doing is:
1. Create page one with the image and description columns, and publish this
page.
2. Click EDIT to re-open page one.
3. Click File-->Actions-->Publish as a new page
This will create a new page that looks exactly like page one, but of course
you save it with a different file name. This also ensures that page 2 is saved
in the correct location.

Now you have a legitimate page one and page two. Now you can make your anchor
link to page 2 easily (and you didn't have to go through adding your image and
description again!). HTH :-)