new to x10, need some help/advice

[upnorthdecals]

Hi folks, i'm new here. I just registered. First things first my english isn't very good, but i seriously need some help. I am a graphic designer, but new to web design. I was wondering how/where do i send my images to x10? Also, is the name of the file remain the same, for exemple; vehiclegraphics.jpg? I am curently using imageshack to host my listing page (for market places where i sale my stuff) but imageshak put a random number and name file everytime i upload a new one. So every time i make a change in one of my listing page, i have to re-upload it, and revise ALL of my listing because html tags in my listing is no longer the same... I am looking for a better alternative. I wonder if i can simply overwrite the file hosted by x10 and if the name remains the same? And if the html tag in my auction would be able to replace the actual image? For exemple, my html tag is something like <img src=http://www.dx10hosting.com/upnorthdecals/vehiclegraphics.jpg/> If i make changes in the file, then re-upload and overwrite the file "vehiclegraphics.jpg" is the link will remain the same, so the new image will automatically be replaced in all of my action, without having a broken link. I know it may sounds confusing, my english is not very good, but if you need more precision don't hesitate to ask. Well actually the question is how/where do i upload my images? thank in advance!

 

[allofus]

hello upnorthdecals

placing your files is up to you to a point, but the public_html folder is where you place all of your url related files, your website, images and such that you want peopel to access using their browser.

/home/yourusername/public_html/index.html

The index.html file will be your homepage when you go to

yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com/index.html
yourdomain.com/

your images can also go directly into this same public_html folder or you can create a directory/s to store your images

/home/yourusername/public_html/image.gif

accessible via
yourdomain.com/image.gif

/home/yourusername/public_html/pics/image.gif
would be
yourdomain.com/pics/image.gif


this is an example of html for <img> as a hyperlink <a><img /></a>

<a href="http://4allofus.com" title="visit the 4ALLofUS Home Page" target="_parent"><img src="http://4allofus.com/images/4allofus-logo.gif" alt="4ALLofUS Logo" border="0"></a>

<a href="http://4allofus.com"
This is the url for the hyperlink

title="visit the 4ALLofUS Home Page"
the title displayed when hovering with the mouse

target="_parent"
opens in the same page


The image
<img src="http://4allofus.com/images/4allofus-logo.gif"
the url of the image that is stored on our server
/home/allofus/public_html/images/4allofus-logo.gif

alt="4ALLofUS Logo"
the text displayed if the image does not load

border="0"
because this image is being used as our page header and a hyperlink this prevents the hyperlink blue border from displaying around the image.


The title and alt tags are also used by blind / text to talk software as well as search engines to determine more info about the link / image and also make the code wc3 (internet standards / browser) compliant.


If you have any more questions feel free to PM me;

MattG - britishnproud
Edit:
oh and yes, you can only have 1 file of 1 name in any given directory. If you replace the file the link need not be altered.

You can have
1.gif
/folder/1.gif
/anotherfolder/1.gif
/yetanotherfolder/1.gif

yourdomain.com/1.gif
yourdomain.com/folder/1.gif
yourdomain.com/anotherfolder/1.gif
yourdomain.com/yetanotherfolder/1.gif

 

[upnorthdecals]

Hi! thanks for the lightning fast answer. Acutally, i don't own a domain name. Not for the moment. I will register a domain name when i'll be ready to make my own web site. For the moment, i am using market places to sell. I need a place to host my image (which are used for my item descriptions). For exemple, take a look a this;

http://www.blujay.com/?page=ad&adid=3020096&cat=2030400&keywords=harley eagle flames

The item description you see is actually a HUGE .jpg i made and hosted by imageshack. The 2 pictures are hosted by blujay.

This is the link hosted by imageshak; http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9986/mceagleflames.jpg

The image hosted is obviously mceagleflames.jpg.

The problem is that if i make changes in my listing description (the .jpg) i will have to reupload it to imageshack, and the link will be different. The image number you see in the link will vary and this results into a broken link in my listing page. I wonder if i host my image here on x10 if the link will remain the same so every time i make a change, upload and overwrite the old image, i don't have to revise my thousands of listing?

Something like http://www.x10hosting.com/upnorthdecals/mceagleflames.jpg ?

Dunno im really new to all this html thing. Thanks!

 

[Brandon]

All of your files will be accessible via http://upnorthdecals.x10hosting.com/. Just make sure everything goes into the "public_html" folder.

 

[upnorthdecals]

thanks Brandon.

All i see is
cgi-bin/
images/
postinfo.html

How do i upload my images there? Sorry to be a newb, but i seriously can't figure it out! thanks

 

[moiety]

I wonder if i host my image here on x10 if the link will remain the same so every time i make a change, upload and overwrite the old image, i don't have to revise my thousands of listing?

The link will remain the same, yes. But at 1.1Mb a go, you might burn through your bandwidth quite quickly if you have your work listed in a lot of places.

How do i upload my images there?

You use a FTP program Like this free one:
http://filezilla-project.org/

You connect by specifying the server you want to connect to: whatever.x10hosting.com
name: whatever@whatever.x10hosting.com
password:

...and that'll open up a windows explorer window with your computer in one window and the hosting computer on the other. Just swipe the files across.

 

[allofus]

Also, you can take the images that are hosted elsewhere and add them to your website. Just use the same html a above <img src="and put their existing links here".

Some image / file share websites have leeching protection that will stop this, but not all.

Did you take a look at the pricing of x10hosting. Their paid hosting is unlimited bandwidth and server space so in theory you could have tens of thousands of images in 1 entry level account, move all of your existing images once and never have to do it again.
Edit:
http://x10hosting.com/premium.php

starting under $5 a month ;-)

 

[upnorthdecals]

IT WORKS! Awesome hehe

moiety, what do you mean i'll burn my bandwith. Yes i have a lot of images like this listed. I'm not sure to understand how it works, but is it the visitor on my web page who have to load the image or me?

I made a test and it works flawlessly. I uploaded my eagleflames.jpg and replace the old link from imageshack by upnorthdecals.x10hosting.com/image/eagleflames.jpg. It works great i can see the image in my listing..

Then, i took another different image and named it eagleflames.jpg too, Uploaded it (overwriting the old one) and took a look at my listing. The image have been automatically replaced by the "new" eaglesflames.jpg! WOW exactly what i needed! Now when i,ll make a change on one of my page, no longer need to revise all single listing, simply overwriting the image hosted here! AWESOME!

BTW, any comment or advice will be appreciated, since im really new to web design. I have great graphic designer skills, but not really for web publishing and such thing like that.

I know having a .jpg is not the best way to do... What i would like to do is having all different sections of my pages to be individual. For exemple the header, the item despcription, the color section, shipping info... all different files which i can combine together. so i can switch part for different listing... What would you suggest me to do?

How can i keep my graphic designs with reducing the weight if my files? I mean, how can i have my pages in html format, with some html text overlaping a backgound image? I can't figure out how it works! If im right its all about frame and tables? haha i dunno... :/

 

[allofus]

IT WORKS! Awesome hehe

I'm not sure to understand how it works, but is it the visitor on my web page who have to load the image or me?

Super,

Bandwidth - it is both. The website visitor uses their bandwidth to get teh file from the server to their browser and your hosting account uses the same amount of bandwidth to send it to them.

If however you embed images from your image share collection into your x10 web pages the image share site will use their bandwidth for the images and x10 will just provide the html page they are on... a few kb, v's a mb per image.

$5 for unlimited bandwidth makes this a minor issue though really.

BTW, any comment or advice will be appreciated, since im really new to web design. I have great graphic designer skills, but not really for web publishing and such thing like that.

I know having a .jpg is not the best way to do... What i would like to do is having all different sections of my pages to be individual. For exemple the header, the item despcription, the color section, shipping info... all different files which i can combine together. so i can switch part for different listing... What would you suggest me to do?

If you go to your cpanel on x10hosting you will find fantastico and / or softaculous. You can use this to install an image gallery or a blog and then use that to publish your images.

Actually if you put them in different directories you can install both. Blogs like wordpress can easily have image galleries installed as a plugin too and wordpress is easy, find in backend, click, install, config.

Considering you did not know how to do some fairly basic tasks I think this installer might be a good starting point for you. Probably try coppermine gallery or wordpress and add a gallery.


This is easier than you might think, cpanel will do most of the work for you.