Website Upload...

[Franky]

Hey all you computer gurus out there who might be able to give me some help. I've been making a site in frontpage and dreamweaver. Well I use dreamweaver now but I thought i'd start with Frontpage to see if it was any different. Anyhow I want to upload a couple of pages and pictures to my geocities account which was simple, but all of my links are wrong becuase their linked to folders on my pc. Is there a way of making it so that the pathnames are gone when you upload it? This would save me the trouble of doing it in html everytime I upload it . Cheers Glenn

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

Hey all you computer gurus out there who might be able to give me some help. I've been making a site in frontpage and dreamweaver. Well I use dreamweaver now but I thought i'd start with Frontpage to see if it was any different. Anyhow I want to upload a couple of pages and pictures to my geocities account which was simple, but all of my links are wrong becuase their linked to folders on my pc. Is there a way of making it so that the pathnames are gone when you upload it? This would save me the trouble of doing it in html everytime I upload it . Cheers Glenn

Helful hint one, loose frontpage, its crap, it creates bloated code thats hard to edit, and anything adventurous that requires frontpage extensions will not run properly on most hosts. The majority of web host run nix boxes and if you look through most paid hosts frontpage hosting on windows servers is offered at a cost premium because its a security nightmare. Dreamweaver should allow you to build a file structure that is extends from the html root and is easily downloaded.

[Franky]

I did this thing on Dreamweaver MX where you can set up you're site so it can be uploaded to your server. But i'm not sure how to make the files able to be uploaded to Geocities ;)

If it will help I could send a screenshot of the feature

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as for filepath see line below

<IMG ID="Picture2" HEIGHT=264 WIDTH=630 SRC="./assets/images/cclogo_5b.gif" BORDER=0>

file cclogo_5b.gif is in directory

\assets\images above your html root directory not the forward slashes though and the dot between the exclamation marks. Linix or unix etc use the forward slash for path. odds on your on an apache server on a nix box. Try setting the paths like above.

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

I did this thing on Dreamweaver MX where you can set up you're site so it can be uploaded to your server. But i'm not sure how to make the files able to be uploaded to Geocities ;)

If it will help I could send a screenshot of the feature

will geocities let you build subdirectories for your pics? if not it all has to be edited to your home directory.

[Franky]

you said there is a feature that'll allow you to make it easy to download, I have folders with pictures for a navigation bar that won't work. Because when you upload the folders containing the pics for it they come up faulty because the directories are incorrect..

man this is confusing

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

you said there is a feature that'll allow you to make it easy to download, I have folders with pictures for a navigation bar that won't work. Because when you upload the folders containing the pics for it they come up faulty because the directories are incorrect..

man this is confusing

Best you copy all the pics into directory structrure you intend to ftp up and do your linking from that. dont link from directories on your PC and then copy files for upload remember its running on another pc once on the server.

[Franky]

ok what program do you recommend to upload via ftp?

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

ok what program do you recommend to upload via ftp?

ws-ftp Le. why because its free, it works and I'm cheap.
although lately I've been using Netobjects fusion MX for my pages its quck and easy and the ftp client in it works fine.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

Just make sure on your computer where you save the HTML file that that is where all your pictures are stored, it might be messy, but it's easy and practically fool proof.

So for example, make a folder in C:\ called MySite, then copy across all your pictures and HTML and whatever else to that folder, then go into Dreamweaver and tell it to use the pictures stored in C:\MySite - which it should be smart enough to realise is the same place as where the HTML file itself is located, and thus only put the filename (and not the location to find it) in the HTML - so for example it should make
<IMG ID="Picture2" HEIGHT=264 WIDTH=630 SRC="cclogo_5b.gif" BORDER=0>
instead of
<IMG ID="Picture2" HEIGHT=264 WIDTH=630 SRC="c:\MySite\cclogo_5b.gif" BORDER=0>

If it makes the second one (you can open HTML files in notepad if need be, they're just text files, in fact all the web pages I do I hand-write the HTML, CSS, PHP etc myself in a text editor), then all you have to do is remove the c:\MySite\ and it'll work as expected, once you upload all the files to the web server.

Like I said, not the neatest solution, but practically foolproof.

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Originally Posted by The MaDDeSTMaN

Just make sure on your computer where you save the HTML file that that is where all your pictures are stored, it might be messy, but it's easy and practically fool proof.

So for example, make a folder in C:\ called MySite, then copy across all your pictures and HTML and whatever else to that folder, then go into Dreamweaver and tell it to use the pictures stored in C:\MySite - which it should be smart enough to realise is the same place as where the HTML file itself is located, and thus only put the filename (and not the location to find it) in the HTML - so for example it should make
<IMG ID="Picture2" HEIGHT=264 WIDTH=630 SRC="cclogo_5b.gif" BORDER=0>
instead of
<IMG ID="Picture2" HEIGHT=264 WIDTH=630 SRC="c:\MySite\cclogo_5b.gif" BORDER=0>

If it makes the second one (you can open HTML files in notepad if need be, they're just text files, in fact all the web pages I do I hand-write the HTML, CSS, PHP etc myself in a text editor), then all you have to do is remove the c:\MySite\ and it'll work as expected, once you upload all the files to the web server.

Like I said, not the neatest solution, but practically foolproof.

Thats it, will work but it puts everything in the one directory, some hosts will require forward slashes in the directory path. experiment on a page then edit all pages once you know what's what.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

Originally Posted by Devil Racer

ok what program do you recommend to upload via ftp?

I like SmartFTP myself, http://www.smartftp.com/ but pretty much any FTP program should do the trick.

Good luck, and don't forget to show us all what you've been working on :newangel:

[Franky]

thanks for the help guys, i'll try uploading it through that program Red_EL and see how it goes, if all fails i'll try that idea Maddestman and see how it goes ;)

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

thanks for the help guys, i'll try uploading it through that program Red_EL and see how it goes, if all fails i'll try that idea Maddestman and see how it goes ;)

If at first you dont succeed - fit a bigger supercharger! or something like that