timur Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 hey guys iam intersted in buying silver plan but this is will be my first domain and i would like to ask how i am going to build my site??????? i have Windows Xp i don't have frontpage and how do i build my site?? using what???? please help now because iam goiing to buy in few min Quote
TCH-Don Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 There are many ways to build a site, such as using notpad to build it by hand, if you know html, and then upload your site with an ftp program, or a graphical program that will let you create a site while it takes care of site management such as uploading new files, and deleting unused files. Many of the people here, including myself use cutesitebuilder to build our sites. click on the link above to see more about the program. and also visit http://www.kwsupport.com/csb/ for help on using the program. This help site is run by KW, you will see his many very helpful post's here too. Hope this helps and welcome to the family Quote
KevinW Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 Welcome, aboard. Designing a web site is not always as easy as it looks. However, there are several packages that will allow you to get your first web site up fairly easily. CuteSITE Builder is one. 1st Page 2000 is another one. To see an example of CuteSITE Builder, look no further than the new TCH Help Web Site. -kw Quote
timur Posted March 9, 2003 Author Posted March 9, 2003 ah ic oh k i know html a little but i learn it at school so i havve my site there but not hosted so iam going to host it here but the files are like this WEBFOLDER/htmlfiles/images/music/videos/ so where can i upload this to? like public_html???? or where Quote
KevinW Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 Yes, anything that you wish to make available to visitors to your website will need to be placed in the public_html . Consider your "WEBFOLDER" directory on your school site to be essentially equivalent to "public_html" directory on TCH. Therefore, you could go inside the public_html directory and create a directory images, and so on and so forth. -kw Quote
timur Posted March 10, 2003 Author Posted March 10, 2003 oh k so what FTP can i use? btw i registrated for standart plan i hope you going to help me iam still waiting for my domain propgade (sorryfor spelling) any good free ftp advice coul;d help and please give me insturtions how to log in to my site using ftp Quote
KevinW Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 You can use any FTP program you wish. There are several (some free, some $$$) that are generally accepted. Go to the new TCH Help Web Site and click on FTP. Not only will you find a list of suggested FTP utilities for your PC, but also movie tutorials on using two of them (WsFTP and CuteFTP). If or when you have specific questions, just ask. -kw Quote
Guest Guest Posted March 12, 2003 Posted March 12, 2003 Here's how I learned. I got a trial version of Dreamweaver (by Macromedia) and then purchased a ready made template for like $20.00. I needed to get my fiancee's company's website ASAP, so i threw it all together in about 2 days. It was the best thing I could have done. I threw myself into the mix with a professional web-development tool with amazing built in features like PHP functions and integrated Flash. A ridiculously easy FTP is also standard. If you are looking to start somewhere that is stable, powerful, and scalable, give Dreamweaver a look. Getting a license for DW MX is quite expensive, however, I actually taught myself with DW4 and then bought a license and upgraded so we didn't have any legal problems. I just checked ebay and you can get a licensed version of DW4 from $25-30. Quote
timur Posted March 12, 2003 Author Posted March 12, 2003 yes i have dreamwaver but how can i access FTP throw it? Quote
KevinW Posted March 12, 2003 Posted March 12, 2003 For starters, check out Macromedia's Dreamweaver support page on Setting up an FTP connection -kw Quote
chuckmalani Posted March 13, 2003 Posted March 13, 2003 The easiest way to do it (in MX) is to create a new site, and then there will be a pop-up gui that will walk you through the process. You will need the server info and your login/pwd to put in the Site Definition-> Advanced Tab-> Remote Info area. Then you can work on your website, create your directory structure, etc... Then all you do is "Synchronize" the local site to your remote site, and DW will do the rest. Actually, DW will check the files, see which ones need to be updated, and then prompt you if you want to proceed (that way you don't overwrite live files if you don't want to)... Oh, and that Guest post from before was from me, I apparently was logged out from my work computer... If you have any other DW questions, you can send me an email or also, check out the sitepoint.com forums which, in addition to these forums, are another very valuable resource. chuck Quote
KevinW Posted March 13, 2003 Posted March 13, 2003 Chuck, if it's OK, I have extracted your comments from above and added them to the TCH Help Web Site, for future reference! Click on 3rd Party > Dreamweaver -kw Quote
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