FTP clients/upload only changed pages

I've been reading all the posts related to uploading sites created with iWeb to a non .Mac acccount using various FTP clients, and just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly. I use Fetch to upload my two sites to a godaddy.com account. No problems, everything works fine. My sites don't have a lot of pages right now, so I don't care that the whole thing is uploaded every time I make a small change or add a new page. But if my site increases in size & takes a long time to upload, I'd like there to be a way to only upload the changed or new pages. Am I correct in thinking that as of now, none of the FTP clients available are able to do that?

Hi,
you're right: none of the FTP clients is able to do that with iWeb.
That's what I think why it is so (yet not 100% sure): FTP clients compare the file size and the date a file was edited. If they see it changed they upload that file. If not they kind of skip it.
The "problem" now is that when you export an iweb-website to a folder the files are marked as "created the day and time" you exported it. And that's why (I repeat, I'm not 100% sure) the ftp client doesn't skip the files because the answer from the server is "the file on the computer is newer than the file I have".
(To the pros who read that: please correct me if I'm wrong so that I can learn and don't make mistakes twice...)
BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO is manually selct the files you want to be uploaded. Say you change something in the index file, you can go to your ftp client select the index file and then upload only the index file (I do that all the time with one or more files).
If you add pages that do not appear in the nav bar, means that on a page you have links to that pages, in your ftp client you can select the pages you added and the page you inserted the links to those pages and upload only those.
Now I'm not sure about adding a page that appears in the nav bar, I would try it but my page has a lot of pages and it takes forever to export to folder but you could try... (please tell me the outcome) But I think that it works with those pages too (I think the nav bar will be updated in the whole site even if not re-uploading them all)
Reagrds,
Cédric (please someone tell me what I didn't know yet, Thanks!)

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