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I am webmaster of a fanfiction site that naturally involves uploading a LOT of text from submitted stories. So far what Ive been doing is creating pages that will allow for the posting of as much text as possible. This however has its downside:
1) I can only insert about 3500-4000 words on each page
2) If the story is long, this translates into NUMEROUS pages for each story. I have worked out a simple system to keep up with these pages; however, certain categories will get more text than others and this is loading up my iWeb filing quite a bit.
I was wondering if a way to fix this was to upload a document directly into my server files, rather than setting up pages in the iWeb, which I use mainly for the basic structure of the site. The other admins of this site and I would like to make it so we can a) upload more than 4000 wds for a page and b) not have to always go through iWeb to link up a story file. Is it possible to do this?
the website is : www.gaslighthotel.net
Im so used to the 'plug and play'/WYSIWYG aspect of webpage building that actually trying to link things up out of the server files is a bit confusing to me.

Organizing a large website is always a headache.
Judging by your discription, iWeb may have it's limits.
Perhaps a more straitforward website that's easier to handle might be the solution.
You will sacrifice the ease of use, but on the otherhand, you can design pages in iWeb and use the published results as templates in other HTML Editors. It can be done.
http://web.mac.com/wyodor/Ajax/
http://web.mac.com/wyodor/Ajax/Ajax_2.html
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http://web.mac.com/wyodor/Vereniging/
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http://web.mac.com/wyodor/Dropmenu/

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