[consulting] preview of a home page

[Sami Khan]

> Your critique is based on the assumption that the promotion method
> over-writes all of the live data with the test data.  That's the wrong
> assumption.
>   
In general, I thought you were talking about repeating a backup 
procedure in reverse which I assumed would mean that you'd be copying 
back data from a database to a database, and therefore, if you copy a 
database it's at best difficult to keep all of the relations updated on 
such an update. So yes, you're absolutely right, I did assume that when 
you went to sync the entire db in a reverse transaction.
> There are lots of promotion methods that would merge the front page
> into an existing site (whether it's via  tpl file, or a front page
> based...copy/paste the content...
>   
Could you elaborate on the "via tpl file" method, not quite sure I get 
what you're talking about? Copy and pasting content sounds more like a 
plausible solution, but you'd have to essentially try out the new 
content on the test server, then copy and paste via a node form to the 
new site, and then sync the new db back to the old db -- which is easy 
enough. So that would work in general, but it would be still a hassle 
for the number of users.

Regards,
Sami