HOW DO I REPAIR THIS MESS?
HOMESTEAD, 5
On past feedback pages in this series, in trying to fix this and other problems with the online sitebuilder and with the desktop sitebuilder, I found out from csr's that the site was "too large" for desktop (I moved a whole bunch of linked documents to another site: BarksdaleAboutLife.com). Then I found out that the online sitebuilder wasn't "compatible" with the desktop sitebuilder (at which I was amazed), plus that the bosses intended to eliminate the desktop, even though it is obviously vastly inferior (see feedback pages).
The key problem is that now I am stuck with not being able to "see" on my desktop a number of text boxes that are on the site. [Even when I published from an incomplete looking page on my desktop sitebuilder, the missing text boxes still appeared on the site (yes I copied a backup before doing that, but the back up was not needed.]
I copied a page while on online sitebuilder plus, published it, it came up on desktop with same missing pieces. Same missing pieces occurs when downloaded onto another computer!!!
Objective: Too save massive work in correcting missing pieces.
Question: Is it possible to publish everything from my pages on desktop that I am working on, so that they are on the website and then to create a whole new data file that is an exact replica of the website so that the desktop site builder is not missing any of the items listed below (plus other ones where similar problems are)? (Or is this a matter of my temporary use of the online sitebuilder creating permanent problems? Was the cause my having too big of a site so it didn't save some text boxes on large pages and then the bad copy would override whatever came from the website?)
To repair this one page at a time will incur considerable time cost - perhaps more than a week - who knows. The prime cost is in reconstructing the pages and then painstakingly re-link each of the pieces (100's). The ethical thing for Homestead to do would be, obviously, to help repair this and to pay back a good portion of the fees for the damage that has been done through lack of disclosure and, indeed, some not so good advice relative to the problems with the desktop and the online not being compatible, along with the undisclosed limitation on the desktop version's capacity.
The main reason I can't just copy from the website and paste into desktop sitebuilder is because I would lose all the the links.
Examples of missing pieces:
Showing on the website but not showing in desktop:
On the sitebuilder plus, downloads as a blank page (with all white except for a slim blue strip at the side)
On the desktop: downloads without the central text box (which is a white page the other ones are layered over in the correct version)
life management contents - Missing entire main text box. Missing the text box in the first column after box beginning with "booklet"
Other introduced problems:
How can that be fixed???
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