My question about Dreamweaver

[kreazn]

I defined the site and everything with dreamweaver. My only problem is how do I modify my web page with this web host? I'm just a little confused on where to go.

 

[The_Magistrate]

Once you've signed up, use an FTP client to upload your content into the public_html directory.

 

[Axe_Swipe]

Dreamweaver has built in FTP capabilities. Once the site is defined along with the ftp information, you should be able to use Dreamweaver's "Put" function to upload your files to your site.

In the site definition settings, under "Remote Info" use the following settings:

Access: FTP
FTP Host: yoursite.x10hosting.com (or if you have a registered domain use that)
Host Directory: /public_html/
Login: your cpanel login
Password: your cpanel password

You can probably leave the other options unchecked

For simplicity's sake, you'll want to have all of your files and folders structured in your local folder the same as they will be on the server, this way you can put multiple files at once and they'll go into the right places.

 

[kreazn]

thanks that really helped! =D
Edit:
ahh ok im still pretty stuck. i did all that, it worked. but it still doesnt show up on my domain. www.thenoodlehouse.x10hosting.com is it suppose to be JUST the files i need in the local folder, because i do have some files stored in there that isnt used in the site.

 

[lionheart8]

Hi, I see that blue x10hosting screen on your site. Part of the text there explains why you see it, instead of your site content:

Welcome to your new x10Hosting.com hosting account. You may replace this index.html with your new website. Please remember the best way to receieve support is through the x10Hosting Forums.

Have you done that, ie. removed the index.html file you found there as a place holder?

 

[Livewire]

Hi, I see that blue x10hosting screen on your site. Part of the text there explains why you see it, instead of your site content:



Have you done that, ie. removed the index.html file you found there as a place holder?

Better question: Did you upload the files to the public_html folder, or somewhere else? public_html is where all the web junk goes; other sites don't quite give as much freedom with that as X10 (as in, they only let you mess around in public_html instead of the whole thing)

 

[Axe_Swipe]

Your index file (whether it be index.htm, index.html, index.php or whatever) must be located in the /public_html/ folder or your site will not load properly as the web server treats /public_html/ as the root folder of your web site.

You can pretty much put everything else wherever you want, but it should be in the /public_html/ or in a sub-folder of /public_html/ for ease of use and management.

Any files that you have in your local folder that are not used in the site should not be uploaded because they will just take up your server space needlessly. I would recommend moving to a separate location on your hard drive until such time as you do need them, and then you can move them over.

Just as a real-world example; my site got suspended here this weekend for no ads even though I had ads on all of the viewable pages. After it got unsuspended, I double checked and found that I had accidently uploaded a couple of base "template" files that I used to create the real pages. Even though these pages are not linked in the site anywhere, they were the offending pages that didn't have the ads, so I'm assuming the script that x10 uses to detect these things saw these pages and marked them as violations. Since they were not actual site pages, I removed them. Hence making it a good practice to remove unused content from your local folder.